Capt P E I Bailey, "A Tribute to F M Bailey"

A box of materials relating to a lecture ("A Tribute to F M Bailey") given to members of the RSAA by Captain P E I Bailey, at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, on Wednesday 9 July, 2003. For a report of the lecture, see Asian Affairs, XXXV (2004), pp.271-2. Captain Bailey is nephew to Lieut-Col F M Bailey (see RSAA/SC/BAI).

The materials are as follows:

1. RSAA Lecture Programme card, listing the lecture by Capt P E I Bailey.

2. Lecture text (with marginal numbering to indicate the sequence of slides), title-sheet and final sheet with the signature of S M Farrington, dated 6 August, 2003. (Typed sheets x 14.)

3. Audio CDs x 2 (in one double jewel-case) of F M Bailey speaking about the Younghusband Mission. Date and origin of original recording unknown. The unmarked has an audio file of approximately 5 mins duration (sound quality poor). The CD marked "Master with e-Q" begins with the same audio file but terminates after approximatrely 2 mins (sound quality superior to the unmarked CD).

4. VHS cassette copy of a cine film ("Bhutan") shot by F M Bailey in 1928. Duration: 17 mins. Copy made by the British Film Institute. Extract shown at the end of P E I Bailey's lecture. Lord Allenby, in his introduction to F M Bailey's lecture ("Travels in Bhutan") to the Central Asian Society, on 12 March, 1930, remarked: "[Colonel Bailey] has recently been to Bhutan, where he was able to take a film, the first ever made of that country, which he is showing this afternoon." Lieut Col F M Bailey, "Travels in Bhutan," Journal of the Central Asian Society, XVII (1930), p. 206. The film begins with scenes in Sikkim (elephants in evidence), and includes dancing at Paro Dzong.

5. VHS cassette copy of a cine film ("Paper Making at Gyantse") shot by F M Bailey in 1928. Duration: 2 mins. Copy made by the British Film Institute. Extract shown at the end of P E I Bailey's lecture.

6. 35mm colour transparencies prepared (by Susan Farrington) to accompany Capt P E I Bailey's lecture. Each transparency is titled and has a number in accordance with the lecture text. Transparencies are derived either from F M Bailey's glass slides in the RSAA archive, or from material belonging to Capt P E I Bailey. The transparencies are as follows (titles and referencing as noted on each):

(1) F M Bailey post-Sandhurst and pre-India, 1900. (P E I Bailey). (2) Meconopsis integrifolia x simplicifolia, Nyma La. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/13). (3) Father of Colonel F M Bailey. (P E I Bailey). (4) Shooting Eight, Wellington. (P E I Bailey). (5) F M Bailey in uniform of 17th Bengal Lancers. (P E I Bailey). (6) "Self" in disguise. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/19). (7) Eric and Kitamder in Com'eis Garden, Sadiya, 1911. (P E I Bailey). (8) RGS Gold Medal. (RGS display board listing, photographed by Farrington). (9) Col F M Bailey. (P E I Bailey). (10) The Hon Mrs Irma Bailey. (P E I Bailey). (11) Mrs Bailey with the Dalai Lama. (P E I Bailey). (12) F M Bailey [and another person, both in costume]. (P E I Bailey). (13) F M Bailey in Russian clothes for passport. (P E I Bailey). As published in Bailey, Mission to Tashkent (1946), facing p. 134. (14) Escort at Paik Pamirs. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/4). As published in Bailey, Mission to Tashkent (1946), facing p. 20, with the following caption: "Guards of Honour on the Pamirs. Chinese troops and Gilgit scouts." (15) Felling trees in Tashkent. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/39). (Li) Map of Central Asia. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI//3/1). (Lii) Kaufmann Monument, Tashkent. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/35). (Liii) Map: Tashkent to Meshed. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/25, showing Bailey's route marked in red). (16) Chernaivo Station, 13 August, 1918. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/10). (17) Shah Zinaa, Samarkhand. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/48). (Liv) Tamerlane's Tomb, Samarkhand. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/45). (18) Registan, Samarkhand. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/41). (Lv) Koran Stand, Samarkhand. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/3/46). (Lvi) Tashkent-Mashed route, 1918. (Farrington). (Lvii) City Wall, Bukhara. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/4/4). (19) Horse Bazaar, Bukhara. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/4/8). (20) Crossing the Oxus. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/4/22). (Lviii) Oxus Ferry at Burdalik. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/4/20). (21) Meeting Turkomans in Desert. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/4/30). The image is reproduced on the dustjacket to Leach with Farrington, Strolling About on the Roof of the World (2003), where it is dated 1918, and captioned: "Unexpected meeting with Turcoman horsemen during Bailey's flight from Bokhara to Meshed." (Lix) Men in Desert. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/4/28). (22) Rumanians at Bukhara. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/4/13). (Lx) Closer view of previous image (RSAA/SC/BAI/4/13). (23) Col F M Bailey (portrait). (P E I Bailey). (24) F M Bailey (in military uniform). (P E I Bailey). Reproduced in Leach with Farrington (2003), p. 85, where the uniform is noted as that of the 17th Bengal Lancers. (Lxi) Four Indian officers, 32nd Pioneers, 1903. (P E I Bailey). (25) Children collecting fuel, Gyantse. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/1). (Lxii) Dressing wounded Tibetans. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/1/39). (26) Crossing Tsang Po, 1904. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/7). (Liii) Making road on Tang La, 1904. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/1/25). (27) Ta Lama and Tunyik Chembo. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/23). (Lxiv) Cane bridge, Sikkim. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/1/1). (28) General and Staff, Lhasa. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/22). (Lxv) Younghusband and White. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/1/45). (29) On Gyamtso Na Lake. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/1/3). (Lxvi) Military Infantrymen below Potala. (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/33). (30) Col F M Bailey (portrait). (P E I Bailey). Reproduced in Leach with Farrington (2003), p. 85. (Lxvii) Boy with head of Ovis poli (Ammon). (Copy of RSAA/SC/BAI/2/47). Reproduced as the Frontispiece to Leach with Farrington (2003).

Here follow eight transparencies (without number) that were prepared (by Farrington) but not used in P E I Bailey's lecture. All, bar one, derive from the watercolours and photographs of Colonel Sir William Everett KCMG (1844-1908), donated to the RSAA by The Hon Mrs Eric Bailey, grandchild of Col Sir William Everett. See RSAA/SC/EV. The transparencies are as follows:

[1] Kemach, Armenia. Watercolour. (RSAA/SC/EV/2). [2] Castle of the Diadin, Eastern Euphrates. Watercolour. (RSAA/SC/EV/1). [3] The Lake, Erzeroum. Photograph. (RSAA/SC/EV/1). [4] Erzeroum. The city from the British Consulate looking SE. Photograph. (RSAA/SC/EV/1). [5] On Gyamtso Na Lake, 1903. Transparency, close-up of transparency 29 above, derived from RSAA/SC/BAI/1/3. [6] Mt Ararat. Watercolour. (RSAA/SC/EV/1). [7] Ispir. Watercolour. (RSAA/SC/EV/1). [8] Boat on Lake of Tantoum[?]. Watercolour. (RSAA/SC/EV/2).