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Description: Loose white and blue folios handwritten in ink kept inside a paper folder. Identified as West 47 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Some of the commoner Huzvarish words with their etymology [in Hebrew], arranged alphabetically" "Eramji Dastur Sohrabji Meharji Rana's Huz. & Pahl. Farjang Bombay A.Y. 1238." "Alphabetical list of Huzvarish verbs"

Menasce suggest these are mostly copies of earlier works.

B&W postcard of Frederick, Duke of Albany and York (1763-1827), by National Portrait Gallery.

"Free as Air" - copy of news-cutting from Times Educational Supplement, for 15 September 1961 with review of The Problem of Value.

The material consists of a printed letter advertising the Friends of the Palestine Museums, and correspondence with the Royal Asiatic Society. Specifically:

• Printed letter from the Friends of the Palestine Museums explaining the purpose of the organisation and inviting others to join. It is undated and unsigned but is headed with a list of officers and members of Council of the organisation.
• Note from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary to Royal Asiatic Society, to Sir Edward Maclagan, President, to ask whether the Friends of the Palestine Museums should be brought up at the forthcoming Council meeting of the Society. The same piece of paper bears a reply from Maclagan suggesting there might be items that the Royal Asiatic Society could lend to the Friends of the Palestine Museums. Handwritten, dated 26 May 1932.
• Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary to Royal Asiatic Society, to The Organising Secretary, Friends of the Palestine Museums, to state that the Society would wish to support the Friends and that he personally would be happy to help. He will send a list of the Society's members and will look through the Library for articles that may be of interest. Typed, dated 24 May 1932.
• Letter from F.J. Duncan, Organising Secretary, Friends of the Palestine Museums, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank for his letter and to ask if he may make an appointment to meet with Hoysted. Handwritten with printed letterhead, dated 30 May [1932].
• Letter from F.J. Duncan to Colonel Hoysted to thank him for the card with Dr Zwemet's address and to also thank regarding advice given. Handwritten with printed letterhead, dated 3 June [1932].

Ink drawings of the frieze above the benched cress in the left changer of the courtyard of Cave No. 75 and of a partial frontal elevation of Cave No. 76, including a brief note on the state of preservation of ornamentation at time of documentation.

A handwritten note about Fritz Larson.

From Asia Polyglotta, English - German Vocabulary. A German- English vocabulary list seemingly copied from Asian Polyglotta, Volume 1 pp. 89-137. Handwritten, 5 pieces, 16 sides, undated. (Asia Polyglotta by Heinrich Julius von Klaproth, Publication date 1823.)

"From Mr Ball's Letter to Miss Manning, Diss". Extract copied from a letter to Miss Manning from Samuel Ball, 27 July 1850. This letter gives praise to the character and capabilities of Thomas Manning. Handwritten in ink, 3 pieces, 3 sides

"From the Irish of "Vurneen Declish Val Ma Chree". A literal translation of the poem by Amintor. Newspaper Cutting, 1 piece, 1 side

An unfinished sketch of the front of Chaitya Cave, scale 6ft to an inch, drawn by E.W. West. This is sheet 11 in the folder/