Collection I: Asian Travels Volume I. This would contain a) an Introduction to the set, b) a selection of articles, c) excerpts from Curzon’s Tales of Travel and d) The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus, a short work describing Curzon’s travels in the region, originating in a lecture to the Royal Geographical Society and reproduced as articles in its Journal. Volume II. An article, A Visit to Bokhara the Noble, and three chapters of Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question. The article would substitute for the lengthy travelogue which takes up about half the book, leaving in place the chapters dealing with the effects of the Transcaspian Railway, the Anglo-Russian question and Russian rule in Central Asia. Volume III. Persia and the Persian Question, Volume I. The outcome of six months of travel in Persia in 1889-90, this volume consists of a travelogue, interspersed with chapters on regional politics and commerce, the Shah and the royal family, the government, institutes and reforms, the army and railways. Volume IV. Persia and the Persian Question, Volume II. This volume is arranged similarly, with chapters on the navy, the Persian Gulf, revenue, resources and manufactures, commerce and trade, and British and Russian policy. For reasons of space, both volumes would be pruned of the less interesting sections. Volume V. The Problems of the Far East. This stems from Curzon’s travels in 1887-8 and 1892-3, but concentrates on political, social and economic issues. The first eleven Chapters deal in turn with Japan, Korea and China, the final two with ‘The Destinies of the Far East’ and ‘Great Britain in the Far East’.