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A series of drafts for 'Escorts in Tibet', the record of Mackenzie's time as part of the escort to the Trade Agent, based on his diaries (FM/1).

Essay - "The causes of the decay of the Mogul Empire" with identifier quotation, "We are all in difficulty, all in distraction, surrounded by a people; by a strange people. Memoirs of Babur." Typed manuscript, 16 pages + 2 hand-drawn maps. Also label page identifying it as the winning essay for 1935.

Essay - "The Portuguese in India" by Dennis Wood, University of Bristol. Typed manuscript, 48 pages plus a title page and hand-drawn map. With this essay is a handwritten title page with the candidate's tutor signature and a further note identifying this as the 1936 First Prize.

The first prize essay - "The relations between the Greeks and the East" by D.P. Costello. Typed, 23 sides, undated. With identifying label.

"The Chinese Literary Revolution - Its Aims and Achievements" by "Cogito, ergo sum". Prize-winning essay by Michael Salt. Typed, 27 pages within a black card folder, dated September 1964.

"The Influence of Sea-Power on the History of the East India Company". The prize-winning essay by Asa Briggs. The front page has notes by the Committee members on their opinions of the essay. The final page is the identifier of the essay writer as Asa Briggs and the authentication by his tutor. Typed with handwritten annotations, 17 pages.

"British Application of the Aryan Theory of Race to India 1850-1870" - prize winning essay by Joan Leopold. Typed with handwritten annotations, 45 pages.

"The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia" - prize-winning essay by David Shulman. Typed, 22 pages.

The 1934 prize-winning essay, "The Importance of the Physical features of India for the Understanding of her History" by "Honesta Obtinete", pseudonym for Dorothy A.L. Stede. Typed material, 28 pages with additional label page.

Essay: "The History of the Relations of the British with Malaya and Java (1780-1867)". The first prize winning essay, typed manuscript, 26 pages, with identifying label. Also with the essay is a covering letter from Albert John Chapman to Mr Hoysted to say that he is sending a fresh copy of his essay which is copied verbatim from the original. Handwritten letter, dated 20 December 1938.