Letter from Angus Graham to Joseph [Needham] to ask whether pulleys of any complexity were used in ancient China for lifting curtains. He writes that he and Nathan Sivin are collaborating on optical canons (this article was published in 1973). Letter incomplete.

Letter from Nathan Sivin to Angus Graham to enclose notes on Tsou Yen (not present).

Letter from Mary Garrett to Angus Graham to send him a draft of her work on "wei-wu" on which she had asked John Cikoski to comment. She also writes that she has been awarded a fellowship in London but asks advice about fees. With the letter are some research notes.

Correspondence between J.R. Bracken, his Secretary and Mary Garrett regarding whether Professor Graham would be at SOAS in the coming term.

Letter from Professor D.E. Pollard, President, British Association for Chinese Studies, to Angus Graham to ask Graham if he would be willing to deliver the Annual Lecture for 1985.

Publications and associated correspondence dating to the 1960s.

Letter from Derek J. de Solla Price, Avalon Professor of the History of Science, Yale University, to Angus Graham to discuss the development of Chinese science. He sends with the letter his a photocopy of his article on Automata in History. The article, Automata and the Origins of Mechanism and Mechanistic Philosophy, published in Technology and Culture, 1964, is with the letter.

Publications and associated correspondence from the 1970s.

Draft articles by John Cikoski and associated correspondence. These are:

• Classical Chinese draft manuscript by John Cikoski, 121 pieces.
• On Standards of Analogic Reasoning in the Late Chou, draft by John Cikoski, 58 pieces.
• A Study of the Modal 'Ch'i', draft by John Cikoski, 15 pieces.
• Two baby-steps towards a characterization of the semantic system of Classical Chinese, by John S. Cikoski, draft paper presented at Sino-Tibetan Linguistics conference, Atlanta, 1974, 9 pieces.
• Letter from John Cikoski to Angus Graham to send the draft of the chapter, Classical Chinese, and to describe its contents, 9 pieces, dated 14 January 1970.
• Letter from John Cikoski to Angus Graham to send him the first three chapters of the material on word-class. 1 piece, dated 11 March 1970.

Draft of article by Henricks and associated letter. These are: Examining the Ma-wang-tui Silk Texts of the Lao-tzu: With Special Note of Their Differences From the Wang Pi Text, offprint from T'oung Pao, Vol. LXV, 4-5. Examining the Ma-wang-tui Silk Texts of the Lao-tzu: With Special Note of Their Differences From the Wang Pi Text, typed draft by Robert G. Henricks, eventually published in T'oung Pao 65.4-5 (1979): 166-199, 59 pieces. Letter from Robert G. Henricks to Angus Graham to send Graham a copy of his T'oung Pao article, dated 27 October 1980.