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Documents of the Maratha Peshwa Court given to John Briggs by the widow of Nana Fadnavis. This includes original correspondence to Madhu Rao and Nana Fadnavis. The letters commence with the public life of Nana Fadnavis in 1761 and end with his fall in power in 1796 and are associated with the reign of Madhu Rao.

Perspectivism vs Relativism in Morals by Angus Graham. Three drafts, 1 of 16 pieces and 2 of 23 pieces, all undated.

Personal philosophical diary pages, "I'm in the habit of chewing on the left side...".

These notebooks cover selected books by Quaritch Wales and other authors. They contain:

• Notes on selected books
• Notes on selected books and Indian History
• Notes on newspaper articles
• Notes on The Indianization of China and South-East Asia
• Notes on Hindi
• Notes on various books
• Notes on PROMACHAT (Divination)

Personal correspondence between Duncanson and others including; Nguyen Van Anh, Jacky K.T. Tran, Nguyến Thế Anh and Paul Ngô-Trọng-Hiếu. Much concerns the formation of the Can Lao party.

These letters are personal letters to and from Thomas Manning, many of which are from the de Vaudreuil and de Serrant family members

Description: Green, blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook with blue pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string a, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 5 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Persian Texts from Munich and Oxford including Dadar I Dadduxt
• "Contractions common in Persian MSS."
• Chods-Viraf namah from H28
• The five kinds of marriage and Ahriman's advice to aeshan from H5 Rivayat on yatha-ahu-vairyo, 101 names of god, the will of God and the devil, degrees of sin & good, the tomb of Chosherevan, meaning of some Z. prayers from L8
• Description of the 21 hasks, printed from P13
• Verse introduction and post-script to Sad-Dar Mazam, printed by Hyde
• Vocabulary of Pahlavi & Pazand words from O121 & O225
• Anushrvron's ascension to the throne, Sayings & doing of Anoshirevan, beginning of the tomb of Anoshirevan, from O225
• Indir namah from O30
• Parsi cosmogong, Definition of Sins, from O40
• Saugond namah, Rivayat on miscellaneous subjects from Lb8894

Inserts:

• "Risalah-i Mimi-khirad-i digar"
• "Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroaste, extraits de MSS. Persans de la Bibl. du Roi par Olhausen et Jules Mohl." [Trans. Fragments relating to Zoroastrianism, extracts from Persian MSS. from the Kings Library by Olshausen and Julius Mohl]
• Short note on King Dadar bin Dad-dukht on the supremacy of Persian science in relation to Greek ways of knowing

A printed sheet of Persian script, undated.

Publicity material for Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society by B.W. Robinson. These are:

• "Press Release: Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society" giving details of the book by B.W. Robinson and contact details for further information.
• "Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society": order form to purchase the publication.
• "A Special Offer from the Royal Asiatic Society" to advertise both this publication and Raymond Head's Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Busts in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society , both being offered at a special price to Fellows. Also advertised are a poster and postcards from the exhibition.

A list of Persian manuscripts donated to the Society by R.S. Greenshields in 1931. The original list is torn and therefore incomplete. A photocopy has been made but only of the torn document.