Genre/Subject Matter: Black and white photograph showing a gravel plain the foreground, and hills in the background. Inscriptions: Upper right, above image, in pen: ‘No 2.’ Left, alongside image, in pen: ‘Lofty drifts of loose sand’ and ‘Gravel plain with sand’ Right, alongside image, in ...
The item includes a letter (ff 2-4) referred to as murasaleh (a type of letter), a paper envelope (f 5) and a two piece pouch envelope. These items together are called Kharita. Kharita is an official letter from a paramount power, usually sent in an elaborate silk cover and received with great c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1899
Extent:
Kharita (a ceremonial illuminated letter, a paper envelope, and a two piece pouch envelope)
Manuscript of Persia and the Persian Question (Continued)
Scope & Content:
This file contains sections of the handwritten manuscript of the book Persia and the Persian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon. These papers come as part of the full handwritten draft of the book that comprises the shelfmarks Mss Eur F111/30-32. The printed edition of the book can be found in ...
General information on Persia for any future edition, 1895
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of an envelope of notes and printed papers that make up some ancillary materials collected by George Curzon at the time of the publication of his book, Persia and the Persian Question. The notes consist of official correspondence on Persia from the British Government, archaeo...
Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and other papers concerning the political situation in Egypt and negotiations between the British Government and an Egyptian delegation for the end of the British Protectorate in Egypt. The papers cover the effort to come to an agreement on f...
Black and white print of a photograph of Gwādar Station. No date is provided but, given the dates of similar prints found alongside this photograph, it is likely to have been printed in preparation for the publication of the second volume of John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Om...
Map showing Persia, Afghanistan, and Baluchistan. Compiled under the supervision of George Nathaniel Curzon by William J Turner, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. The map was issued with the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society for February 1892 and reproduced in the Intelligenc...
Reports and papers of the Egyptian Administration Committee
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of memoranda and reports relating to the government and administration of Egypt. Included are memoranda produced by the War Cabinet on the subject and minutes of four meetings held by the Egyptian Administration Committee during September and October 1917.
This file is composed of two Dutch maps of the Persian Gulf, published by the journal of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society (Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap), 1907. The first map, 'Kaart van de Perziche Golf', also features a smaller map of the Shatt el...
Genre: Landscape Photography View along a tree-lined avenue in the park. [Silver printing-out paper, made c. 1900, 202x141mm]. Subjects = Curzon Collection; public gardens Location = Barakpur; Barrackpore; India; West Bengal