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A small handmade notebook with a beige paper cover. Mainly notes on language construction and usage. Handwritten in English, Latin, Greek, Chinese. Inserted is a slip of paper with Chinese calligraphy (Possible translation: How can this be so? How can this be so? I will repeat it 100 times! It's a government official's. How can one enter its garden directly and call the daughter, as if it’s just a thatched hut with neither door keepers nor servants standing aside? Even frivolous writings of jokes haven't been so ludicrous. Li's comments. Supplied via Twitter 17/03/16)

A small handmade notebook with a beige paper cover. It contains pencilled notes which appear to be notes about books and treatises to read or that have been read. Some notes seem to be concerned with the construction of language. Handwritten in English, Greek, Latin, Chinese. Undated

Handwritten copy of the University of Oxford's Vice Chancellor's (Dr Bellamy) ovation on the occasion of Hodgson receiving his honorary degree. Handwritten in Latin, 2 sides, dated July 1889.

Handwritten draft giving background to the Escorts in Tibet and giving journal entries from 16 August 1938 to 27 March 1939. These entries are not exact replicas of the diary entries. The draft is 86 handwritten sheets which are annotated and edited. There are three labels with this draft, one of which is dated 26 May 1978.

A handwritten draft written by Edward William West for an article published in the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1860. Included are also three pages of draft prints of the inscriptions which were included in the publication.

This is number 8 on the folder list.

An initial tabulated index for the catalogue.

Handwritten note concerning the nature of libel in reviews. Note to postman on the reverse. This is written on headed notepaper.

Handwritten list of contents of the file.

Handwritten notes and some photocopies made by Head in compiling the catalogue. These include:

• Notes on early donations - 3 pieces
• Notes on Alexander Johnston - 2 pieces
• Notes on an unlocated bust of Charles Metcalfe - 2 pieces
• Notes and photocopy on Charles Doyle - 3 pieces
• Notes and photocopies on Sir William Jones - 8 pieces
• Notes on miscellaneous paintings not within the catalogue - 10 pieces

A handwritten translation of 'On believing in mind - Shinjin-no Mei', by Seng-t'san, third Chinese patriarch of Zen. There is a change in the pen used part way through the document and a small number of corrections.