The portfolio contains three folders. These are titled: 'Ajanta Caves 1', 'Ajanta Caves 2', and 'Ellora Caves and Aurangabad Caves'.

A leather bound portfolio containing three folders entitled: 'Ammarnáth Temple, near Kalian', 'Sundries' and 'Kanheri Caves duplicates'.

A leather bound portfolio containing two folders titled 'Kanheri Cave Plans' and 'Kanheri Drawings and Sketches'. There is also a notebook of notes taken by Walter West, as well as some loose handwritten notes and letters.

A leather bound portfolio containing four folders entitled 'Minor Groups of Caves in Salsette (Kondati, Magathan, Montpesir, Jogeshwar, and Sundries)', 'Kondana Caves and Others near the Bhor Ghat', 'Karli', and 'Bedsa - Shailarwadi - Poona'.

A leather bound portfolio containing four folders entitled 'Caves in the Satara Districts', 'Mahar and Kura Caves', 'Junnar Caves and Nana Ghat', and 'Nasik Caves South and North Series'.

Documents relating to the Poona Caves. These are:

• No.1: A description written in 1855.
• No.2: A plan of the large Cave, scale 30 ft to an inch; unfinished drawings of a moulding and a column, scale 1/2 inch to a foot; and two photographs taken in 1856.
• No.3: An envelope containing three paper impressions of ornaments on a frieze under sculpture No.5.

Plans of the caves 6 & 7, and 16 & 17 which are found on a higher level. The scale is 30feet to an inch. This is sheet 7 in the folder.

Hand drawn pencil, ink and ink wash plan of some of the Kanheri topes located near Caves No. 38 and 39, including some annotations. Scale is 60 ft. to an inch. This drawing was presented to the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in October 1861 and was later published in their journal.

A drawing in pencil of a plan of the courtyard and temple by A.A. West. Scale is 40 feet to an inch.

Four pencil and ink drawings of pillars and pilasters and their ornamentation from Caves No. 50, No. 67, No. 72 and No. 86, with some annotations. Scale is 2 ft. to an inch.