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This is the picturesque happening of a summer day in 1903. Lady Curzon has come up here for a season in the famous Vale of Cashmere and is to-day the guest of the Maharajah of the native state. She has just been visiting the Art Museum which you see yonder (notice the graceful courtesy of the arch of flowers before the door), and inspecting its interesting exhibits of handicrafts practiced here in the dominions of His Highness — the work of goldsmiths, silversmiths, coppersmiths, jewellers, leather workers, weavers of shawls and carpets and workers in papier-maché. Now host and guest are returning to embark in a boat that lies waiting at the foot of this carpeted flight of stairs to take them to the Residency. Her Excellency is American by birth, the daughter of Mr. L. Z. Leiter, of Chicago. She was educated in Europe and married Lord Curzon in 1895 while he was Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 1899 Lord Curzon became Viceroy of India and held the office through the usual term of years — until 1904. His conspicuously energetic study of Indian conditions and his marked executive ability in practical affairs have been ideally complemented by the social graces of his charming wife, one of the most intelligently public-spirited and beloved of the successive leaders of Anglo-Indian society. 

The distinguished host on this occasion is the gentleman at whose right hand she walks. He wears a very full white turban and carries a light, walking stick. His full title is Maj. Gen. H. H. Sir Partab Singh Indar Mahindar Badahur Sipar-i-Saltanat, Maharajah of Cashmere and Jummu. He succeeded to his throne in 1885, is a Grand Commander of the Star of India and receives here an official salute of twenty-one guns; in any other part of India nineteen guns.
 
From Notes of Travel, No. 11, copyright, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood.


H. E. Lady Curzon and H. H. the Maharajah of Cashmere, Srinagar. India.

Son Excellence Lady Curzon et Son Altesse le Maharajah de Cachemire, Srinigar, Inde. 

Ihre Excellenz, Lady Curzon und seine Hoheit, der Maharadjah von Kaschmir, Srinigar, Indien.

S.E Señora Curzon y S.A. el Maharajah de Casimir, Srinigar, India.

Lady Curzon och maradjahn af Cashmere, Srinigar, Indien 

Ея Превосхолательство Лэди Курзоъ и Его Бысочество Майраджа Кашeмира, Сринигаръ, Индiя

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