Chapter 6: Forces of Opposition Arrayed
Opening quotation: Isabella in Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. ii.
[1] Published by Leavitt, Trow & Co., New York & Philadelphia.
[2] The Dawn-Breakers, p. 99 (Brit.), p. 142 (U.S.).
[3] ibid., pp. 100-1 (Brit.), p. 144 (U.S.).
[4] Cited Kelly, Britain and the Persian Gulf, p. 310.
[5] Eugène-Napoléon Flandin (1809-76) was an archaeologist and painter of note. He and Coste, an architect, were members of the suite of M. de Sercey, Louis-Philippe's envoy to the Court of Muḥammad-Sháh. They stayed in Írán, after the envoy's departure, to draw her ancient monuments. The result of their labours, Voyage en Perse, was published in 1851 by the French Government.
[6] Early Adventures in Persia, Vol. I, pp. 326-8.
[7] Father of Mírzá Ḥusayn Khán, the Mushíru'd-Dawlih and Sipahsálár, who was the Persian ambassador in Constantinople in 1863, at the time of Bahá'u'lláh's exile to Adrianople. Mírzá Ḥusayn Khán later rose to be the Ṣadr-i-A`ẓam (Grand Vizier).