Hand-written journals documenting travel, with observations, and notes about fieldwork. They contain materials in these categories : Journal of Travel and observation H.G.Q Wales 1923-1928 : Vol I and Vol II Greater India Research Expedition Field Note Book, 1935 Greater India Research Expedition Season 1935-1936 Greater India Research Expedition, Journal of Excavations 1935, Also a continuation of the rough draft of 1937/9 results The Greater India Research Committee Malayan Campaign 1937-8, Field Note Book
Journal, hardcover, red, titled "Greater India Research Committee Season 1935-36 (Siam) Field Note Book Part II: Sri Thep ([Amphur, Kjiem, Chengrai, Pejabun,] Siam)" containing pencil notes and drawings. There are drawings of Prang Song Phi Nong in Sri thep, Prang Sri thep, boundary stone, inscription (pallava script), Khao Khlang Nok,Siva linga, the male statue [ Krishna lifting Govardhan Hill P.68] and the head of a male sculpture.
Journal, hardcover, blue, titled, "The Greater India Research Committee Malayan Campaign 1937-8, Field Note Book 3 (Perak and Johore)", containing ink and pencil notes and drawings. It contains archaeological notes and drawings in Perak and Johore such as the archaeological site in Keta Tinggi and the drawing of a stone tool.
Notebook: black, soft bound, dated October 1928. It contains handwritten notes on
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- History of Indian and Indonesian art, Ananda K. Coomarasusramy
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- Bhagawat Gita, trasnlated by A Corbelow Thompson
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- Hinduism and Buddhism, Eliot
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- Indian Sculpture and painting, Havell.
Notebook: hardback, bound in red & black, ruled, with some entries dated in 1931. It contains notes on books such as "Siam : some general remarks on its productions, and particularly on its imports and exports, and the mode of transacting business with the people" by D.E. Malloch., "Siam, the land of the white elephant, as it was and is" by George B. Bacon, and on Indian history.
Notebook: brown, foolscap, ruled, handwritten, containing notes on articles published in various newspapers, e.g.. New York Times, Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, dating from 1942-1945.
Loose pages with handwritten notes: containing "PROMACHAT (Divination)– first drafts of translation" which are marked as "to be destroyed".
Three personal diaries belonging to Quaritch Wales.
- H.G.Q. Wales Hodgsonites Charterhouse, Godalming
- Quaritch Wales's personal diary in 1936 labelled Si T'ep eh
- The Greater-India Research Committee
T.J. & J. Smith Pocket Diary for 1916, bound in red leather, containing Quartich Wales' diary notes as a student at Charterhouse boarding school.
Catalogue of the photographs illustrating the travels of H.G.Q. Wales 1923-[2]9. Typed original by Quaritch Wales and a photocopy of this list. It includes photographs taken in South America, Siam, Malacca, Cambodia, Borneo, and the Philippines. These lists are relevant to the Quaritch Wales photographic collections that are held at the Society (Photo.70).