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Add MS 61856
- Record Id:
- 032-001962101
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001962101
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x0000c5
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 61856
- Title:
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ZUBAIR PASHA PAPERS: letters and papers of and relating to Zebehr al. Zubair ibn Rahmat (b.1830, d.1913), Egyptian Pasha and slave-trader, formerly Governor and de facto ruler of part of the Sudan; circa 1875-1893, n.d. Partly Arabic. For Zubair's correspondence with Mary Augusta Gordon, sister of
Maj.-Gen. Charles Gordon, and her notes on him, see Add. 51301, ff. 63, 70, 150-161, 215-220v. Sent by Anne Isabella, wife of Col. William Staveley Gordon, nephew of Maj.-Gen. Charles Gordon, to Wallis, afterwards Sir Wallis, Budge, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, April 1908. Presented by the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, 6 Nov. 1980.
Paper; ff. ii+55. 340 x 210mm. British Library arrangement.
1. ff. 1-37. Autobiography of Zubair, relating events up to 1875; circa 1875. Arabic and English translation. For a fuller version, dictated in 1900, see Black Ivory and White, ed. H. C. Jackson (Oxford, 1913).
2. ff. 38-44. Letter of Zubair to Sir Henry William Gordon, relating to his brother, Maj.-Gen. Charles Gordon, together with enclosures; 1884. English translation. Another copy in the same hand is Add. 51301, ff. 158-160v. For further correspondence between Zubair and Gordon in 1884 see Add. 52398, ff. 147, 161, 175, 203.
3. ff. 45-55. Letter of Anne Isabella, wife of Col. William Stavely Gordon, concerning Zubair, together with related correspondence and papers; 1893. Partly printed.
- Scope & Content:
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Sudan: Letters and papers of and rel. to Zubair Pasha: circa 1875-1893, n.d.: Partly Arabic.
includes:
- ff. 1-37 Zubair Rahama, Pasha: Manuscripts ARABIC: Autobiography of Zubair Rahama: 1874: Arabic and Engl. transl.
- f. 38 Sir Henry William Gordon, KCB; brother of Major -General C G Gordon: Letter from Zubair Pasha to Sir Henry William Gordon: 1884: Engl. transl.
- ff. 38-43 Zubair Rahama, Pasha: Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB: Correspondence of Zubair Rahama, rel. to Maj.-Gen. Charles George Gordon: 1884: Engl. transl.
- ff. 38v-40v Ali Mohammed Abou Saad, Emir: Letter to Zubair Pasha from Ali Mohammed Abou Saad: 1884: Engl. transl.
- f. 40 Fadlallah, Effendi; agent of Zubair Pasha: Letter to Zubair Pasha from Fadlallah: 1884: Engl. transl.
- f. 46 Karl Christian Giegler, Pasha; in the Egyptian service at Khartoum: Colonel William Staveley Gordon, RE; nephew of Major -General C G Gordon: Letter to Col. William Staveley Gordon from Karl Christian Giegler: 1893.
- ff. 48-53 Anne Isabella Staveley Gordon, niece of Major -General C G Gordon: Letter rel. to Zubair Pasha from Anne Isabella Staveley Gordon: 1893.
- f. 55 William Blackwood, publisher: Letter from William Blackwood: 1893.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001962101
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001962101
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1870
- End Date:
- 1893
- Date Range:
- 1870-1893
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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London; Secular Institutions. Libraries and Museums. British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities: Presented, in 1980.
Anne Isabella Staveley Gordon, niece of Major -General C G Gordon: Sent to W. Budge, in 1908.
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, FSA; Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum: Received, in 1908.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ali Mohammed Abou Saad, Emir
Blackwood, William, literary editor and publisher, 1836-1912
British Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities, London
Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis, Knight, Egyptologist, orientalist, and philologist, 1857-1934
Fadlallah, Effendi, agent of Zubair Pasha, fl 1884
Giegler, Karl Christian, telegraph engineer and colonial governor, 1844-1921
Gordon, Anne Isabella, wife of William Staveley Gordon, fl 1892-1906
Gordon, Charles George, army officer, 1833-1885
Gordon, Henry William, Knight, army officer and brother of Major-General Charles Gordon, 1818-1887
Gordon, William Staveley, Royal Engineers officer; nephew of Major-General C G Gordon, fl 1863-1900
Zubair Rahama, Pasha - Places:
- Sudan, Africa
- Related Archive Descriptions:
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