Correspondence concerned with the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on William George Archer and Hugh Trevor Lambrick.

This series contains only correspondence regarding the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on Simon Digby.

A handwritten letter in Persian script addressed to Major General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid (officer in the British Army and the East India Company), signed 'Karachi, India', the name signed possibly reads 'Khodlulu Qa'nameh'. The writer refers to the diaries written in Persian containing accounts of some travels, at the very top of the opening page it reads 'Howa Hu', He Is God, which is a conventional greeting common amongst the Sufis. There is also mention of a poem in Persian, 'May your shadow not be short by the cold', followed by a line in Arabic meaning 'May God lengthen your shadow till eternity'.

A handwritten letter in Persian script (official language of Mogul India in 1857), the letter is addressed to Major General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid and mentions Commissioner of Sindh, Bartle Frere, and Colonel Morder from Pune. The letter is sent from Muhammad Khan of Hyderabad who prays for Colonel Morder's good health after becoming infected with cholera by drinking water from River Indus. Muhammad Khan vows to pay him a visit.

Purple cover book possible in Arabic or Persian language, mentions of places such as Molk-e Makran, Jaisalmer, Ragistan, Pokran and Afghanistan. There is also mention of Khodadad Khan who was the secretary to the office of the Commissioner of Sindh.

Blue pattern cover book, printed material possibly in Persian or Arabic, possibly an official report from the Persian Gulf with the mention of Khodadad Khan who was the secretary to the office of the Commissioner of Sindh.

The material contains correspondence and bulletins the All-India Oriental Conferences from 1933-1939 (7th, 8th and 10th conferences), sent to and by the Royal Asiatic Society.

Examination papers handwritten by William Pettigrew answering questions in regards to proficiency in Manipuri language with annotations from the examiner, marks received 82 out of 100, total of 19 pages and a letter addressed to William Pettigrew congratulating him on passing the exam.

Four unbound manuscript pages for Elliot's 'A History of India', printed by the Oriental Lithographic Press, Calcutta:

• Appendices III A and III B: Diagrams depicting unknown, labelled items, probably hill towns, surrounded by notes in Arabic and one other, as yet undeciphered, script
  *. Item labelled 'No.VIII', probably an appendix: Diagrammatic map depicting a town and its buildings, numbered and labelled in Arabic.
• Item labelled 'No.XV - Number 1': Printed table and map for the 'Village of Mouza Sooltanpoor, Purgunuh of Noh Jheel, Zilla Muttra', labelled in English. The table shows a brief, surveyed description of the area, which includes the number of houses and wells, amount of land covered by buildings, the cost of various items, the general caste of inhabitants, and the depth of water

Typed manuscript presenting original notes on Archaic Manipuri, with an introduction to the history of the Archaic Manipuri literature, translations in Old Meithei and Meithei dialect.