Ink and ink wash elevations of part of the parapet of Cave No. 12 and facade of Cave No. 63 drawn following notes made by Walter West in December 1870. Scale is half an inch to a foot.

Two ink drawings of partial front elevations of Caves No. 60 and 61, including some annotations and measurements, as well as a drawings of pilaster from Cave No. 64. Scale is half an inch to a foot.

Two ink and ink wash drawings of the right side frontal elevations of Caves No. 52 and No. 53 made after notes taken by Walter West in December 1870. Scale is half an inch to a foot.

Ink and ink wash partial elevation drawing of the left front side of Cave No. 10 drawn from the notes taken by Walter West made during his visit in December 1870. Scale is half an inch to a foot.

Unfinished pen and pencil drawing of the a highly ornamented parapet from the court of Cave No. 3, including annotations and auxiliary sketches. Scale is 1 ft. to half an inch.

The Papers include correspondence with Wiiliam Claxton Peppé, lists of the finds, some plans of the site, and a draft of an article by Peppé published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1898, pp. 573-588. There is further allied material relating to the originals.

Correspondence and Papers written by Captain Thomas John Newbold between 1842 and 1849. The majority of the correspondence is from Newbold to Richard Clarke, the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society. The Papers were mainly sent by Newbold to be read at the Society or published in its Journal.

The papers contain correspondence with Michael Willis, article written by Phelps and others; and other correspondence. These are all concerning excavations in Northern India particularly around relics concerned with the origins of Buddha.

The papers of Bhagwan Lal Indraji consist of a large leather-bound notebook bequeathed by Bhagwan Lal to the Royal Asiatic Society. Though the book bears a title of "Flora of the North West Provinces and the Kuyaub by the author", the majority of the notes seem to be more concerned with Bhagwan Lal's archaeological and historical interests including dynastic information, translations of inscriptions on slabs and coins, and notes concerning archaeological sites. The book contains writing in both Hindi (Kaithi script) and English. There is evidence that some of the information has been copied from articles made available to Bhagwan Lal.

The book is in poor condition. The spine is no longer present. The boards are only loosely attached to the binding and their layers are disintegrating. Several pages are also loose from the binding. Several sheets of paper are inserted into the book which bear additional notes.

This collection consists of seven leather bound portfolios containing topographical drawings, maps, floor plans, notes and papers that the West brothers had created when working in the Maharashtra region of India in the mid to late 1800's. The main focus of the collection is the Kanheri Caves; a group of over 109 rock cut temples located in what is today the Sanjay Gandhi National Park on the western outskirts of Mumbai. The brothers studied these caves over the course of several decades, returning to the site many times to check and amend measurements, locations, and expand open their interpretation of the site. The remainder of the collection covers several other sites such as: Ajanta, Ellora and Daulatabad.