Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.

Contents:

• "Headings of Sections of Shanamah from Macan's edition, Calcutta 1829"
• Pahlavi-transliterated-Persian words where some have folio and MS. numbers; short unorganized notes on Pahlavi and Persian grammar
• summary of article by Professor Terrein de Lacouperie in the "Academy" from 10 Oct. 1885, p.243-4 #
• notes on inscriptions and their locations in libraries
• notes on printing and correcting proofs calculations relating to the sun, moon, and the earth
• notes on different coins
• "Period of Gestation in Various animals, in days"
• short note and summary of different eras in different cultures according to different theories of creation
• notes from reading a "Review of History of India as told by its own historians" from 'Academy' 11 Sep 1886.

Inserts:

• Scraps of paper with a short glossary with word meanings in English and a note on the population of Parsis in different parts of the world
• transliteration of a Pahlavi excerpt
• Reading room request form

Letter from Henry Beveridge to Oliver Codrington, Honorary Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society, in which he writes about corrections and variations in translations of the Memoirs of Jahāngīr. Handwritten, with printed letterhead, "Pitfold, Shottermill, Haslemere", 1 piece, 4 sides, dated 24 September 1909.

Letter from Henry Beveridge to Charlotte Hughes, Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, in which he writes that he has now corrected the last galley proofs of Rogers' translation of the 12th year of the Memoirs of Jahāngīr to complete the first volume. He writes that the index is also nearly completed. He is also sending the 13th, 14th and part of the 15th years and will send more when he has received the type-written pages from Miss Pitherbridge. He writes that the translation need not go further than the 19th year. Beveridge also writes about some corrections that he has made to the translation. Handwritten letter with printed letterhead "Pitfold, Shottermill, Haslemere, R.S.O.", 2 pieces, 8 sides, dated 3 March 1909.

"Bombay under the Crown, 1662-8". Manuscript, numbered pages 15-34, with crossed out heading of "Chapter II". It begins "The mission which had brought Lord Marlborough and the Portuguese Viceroy to India was one destined to bear far-reaching results." Typed document, 20 pages, undated.