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Letter from R.T.S. Charlton, Bernard Quaritch Ltd., to enclose a letter from Daniel J. Meckel requesting permission to reproduce a plate for a book 'The King Within: Men, Power and Blessing'. Handwritten and typed plus a copy of the image, 3 pages, 3 sides, publication date 20 February 1992.

111 images that Allen had collated from various sources, that could be used to illustrate the text of his "A History of the Georgian People". Some of these were reproduced in the final book. All black and white illustrations, mostly photocopies printed onto photographic paper. They depict scenes from Georgian history, characters such as Castelli ,and historic buildings.

A smaller piece of card and paper pasted onto a sheet of folscap paper. The first is an impression of what is believed to be a coin found in front of Cave No. 7 in November 1852, with a brief explanatory note dated January 1853. The second is a letter dated to approximately June 1853 sent from Henry West to a Dr. Wilson containing a copy short inscription from Kanheri.

The addressee is most likely John Wilson, once President of the Bombay Asiatic Society, Bombay Cave Temple Commission and lobbyist for the Archaeological Survey of India. This is indicated to on the folder list; 'Dr. J. Wilson'.

Wax impression of Richard Burton’s “joke” seal with accompanying sketch of seal by Bernadette Rivett. The motto states:’Don't you wish you may get it’.

In correspondence held in the Royal Asiatic Society Library Archives, Mary S. Lovell suggests that the wax seal was produced by one side of a three-sided seal device made for Burton. One side carried the Burton arms, the second the Burton motto and the third was the thumb to nose cartoon found within this archive. Burton gave it to his cousin George Burton, with the advice to use it when he wrote to a 'damned snob'. Present whereabouts of the seal is unknown.

Drawings of copper plates and inscriptions found at Bhandoop in Salsette, the drawings were made around 1850.

Photocopy of an article from History Today , August 1998, entitled "In Honour of the Royal Asiatic Society", advertising and reviewing the Exhibition.

Newspaper article, 'In Memory of Marshal Georgi Zhukov', accompanied by details of his funeral. From Soviet News, 2 July 1974.

Page 105, beginning with "in regard to the religions..." Typed copy of text.

In the car, thinking while she drives, draft of a poem by Angus Graham.

"In the Marshes of Iraq" - an article by Wilfred Thesiger within Aramco World for November-December 1966.