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A small notebook containing diary entries from 24 February 1939 - 22 June 1939 when the battalion arrived at Gyantse. The entries have been annotated with pencil-written dates in 1978, presumably made when copying of the diaries was undertaken.

A small notebook containing diary entries from 23 June 1939 - 8 March 1940. Mackenzie notes that on 10th August 1939, Professor G. Tucci visited who he writes is 'probably the world's best Tibetan scholar' and who he continued to meet with in the succeeding days. Alongside the entries of his own life are comments on the world news including the start of WW II. The regiment returned to Kolkata on 10th October 1939 and the diary entries subsequently contain information about his social life as well as war news and the death of Jemi Bikram Singh. He received authority for leave home on 19th December 1939 and travelled from Dum Dum to Jodhpur with Air France on 24 December, flew to Basra the following day and arrived in Baghdad on the 26th December. From there he went to Tunis and then Paris and reached England on 29 December 1939 when he returned to his wife to find her still poorly from pneumonia. The entry for 29th January 1940 contains three sketches made on his journey to London.

Small notebook containing diary entries from 16 November 1938 - 21 February 1939. The entry for 21 December 1938 includes a sketch of an ice boat. The diary also includes a typed list of Germans who arrived at their camp on 8 January 1939 and a description of them within that day's diary entry. The entries contain both official and personal information.

"A kundaliyá verse on the upstarts": Mahuá nit uthi dákh sόn karat maslahat áya… With translation: Mahuá gets up daily in the morning and daily converses with Dákh very gravely in this way… Signed Rámgharíb Chaubé. Handwritten, 2 sides, undated.

A George III mahogany secrètaire bookcase circa 1800, with dentilled cornice above a pair of arched astragal doors enclosing adjustable shelves. The lower section has a writing drawer enclosing pigeon holes and small drawers, which sits above a cupboard with pairs of doors, on a plinth base. The cupboard is 244cm high by 152cm wide. It is not known when this bookcase came into the possession of Quaritch Wales.
The bookcase is housed in the Society's Lecture Theatre.

A George III mahogany corner armchair circa 1770, which has a broad rail back above two pierced vase shape splats, and a drop in seat on turned legs. It is not known when this chair came into the possession of Quaritch Wales.
The chair is housed in the Reading Room.

A folder containing two files detailing the Mahar and Kura Caves in Konkan. Each folder has a detailed contents list.

Descriptions and plans about the Mahar Caves and other caves in the Konkan.

A drawing of a pilaster ornament in Cave No.9 with note concerning it and of a similar one in Cave No.5.

A folder containing 3 documents related to the Magathán Caves. These are: No.1: A draft description of the caves (incomplete) No.2: A sketch of a decayed sitting Buddha sculpture, scale 1/24. No.3: Two Pilasters, a piece of a Column and a small Bas-relief Dagob, scale 1/24. These were drawn by Henry West in 1856 but the paper also has a note by Arthur Anderson West noting changes on his visit in 1858.