A journal containing detailed lists of compass bearings from various locations in India. The journal is untitled and bears no name of its author. It measures 35cm by 24cm with a brown cardboard cover which has become detached from the pages.
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90 Description archivistique résultats pour India
Letter from Captain Thomas John Newbold to Richard Clarke, Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7 of his "Mineral Resources of India". He asks if Clarke will read and proof them for grammar and punctuation. He hopes they may be published to give a better idea of the geophysical position. Newbold comments about the ordering of the papers. In a postscript he adds that he has retained number 7.
Letter from Captain Thomas John Newbold to Richard Clarke, Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose number 7 of his "Mineral Resources of India". He writes that the bulk of the Paper has already been read before the Royal Asiatic Society but not published. He asks that Clarke will proof the Paper. He also sends a manuscript concerning the "mundane system of the Farsis". He writes that Mr Norris had sent 3 copies of one of Newbold's Papers that had recently been published but that he will require about 10 further copies and asks if Clarke will send copies with the Author's respects to the Foreign Societies, a list of which he has left with Mr Reid. He will also require 50 copies of his Mineral Resources and asks Clarke to manage this for him.
Typed manuscript titled 'A Study made of 133 words in 29 different dialects to compare to the Archaic and Modern Manipuri', there is handwritten annotations on the front page: 'by Rev W Pettigrew of Manipur State Assam India' and 'Preparatory to a paper proposed to write on the Archaic Manipuri language'. The manuscript has been formatted in to a table which has the modern Manipuri dialect on the left and the archaic dialect on the right.
Sans titreLetter from Lord Canning to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his letter. Canning hopes to meet with Hodgson when he is in Calcutta and would particularly like to discuss how much capital an able-bodied fellow and his wife would need to make a start in the Himalaya. He asks whether Hodgson has heard anything of Jung Bahadur. Handwritten, 8 sides, dated 4 January 1858.
Sans titreThis series consists of the manuscripts for translations undertaken by Rogers for both The Memoirs of Jahāngīr and Baihaki's Life of Masaud.
Sans titreThe handwritten manuscript for the second volume of The Memoirs of Jahangir written by Alexander Rogers, with annotated and inserted edits by Henry Beveridge. 526 pages of Rogers' manuscript in uncovered notebooks, with additional pages of Beveridge corrections.
Sans titreThe handwritten manuscript for unpublished chapters of The Memoirs of Jahangir written by Alexander Rogers covering Years 20, 21 and 22 of Jahangir's reign. 227 pages in uncovered notebooks. The ultimate page is in poor condition.
Sans titre"The Brahminical Mode of Computing Time and generally followed in all parts of Hindostan". A paper that was presented to the Royal Asiatic Society and read by Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod at the General Meeting of the Society on 21st July 1832, under the title of "Calculation of the Variation of the Measure of Time in India". The material is handwritten in ink with pencil annotations. Also with the paper is a comment upon the paper with criticisms of Haliburton's methods, dated 19 January 1833.
Sans titreFive bound volumes of mainly handwritten manuscripts which Henry Miers Elliot collected, copied or wrote in the course of his duties of extracts, reports and correspondence,
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