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Hand-drawn Map of Baiswara
GB 891 HME-HME/7-HME/7/5 · File · [1827-1853]
Part of Papers of Sir Henry Miers Elliot

A hand-drawn map of Baiswara, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, which Simon Digby notes is named in Hindi, with one note in English by Elliot, appearing to state next to four names that "these are subdivisions of the Lokhandee (?) [caste?] throughout Baiswara". There is also another note in an Arabic script, probably Persian, on the reverse of the map.

GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/1-TM/9/1/3 · File · [1800-1840]
Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

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)

GB 891 FM-FM/2-FM/2/1 · File · 1938-1978
Part of Papers of Fleming Mackenzie

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.

Mackenzie Fleming
GB 891 WST-WST/3-WST/3/2-WST/3/2/6 · Item · (1855 - 1860)
Part of Papers of Arthur Anderson, Clement, Edward William, Henry, and Walter West

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.

West Edward William 1824-1905