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Copy of a letter from Gajarajsing Thapa to Brian Houghton Hodgson with messages from Jung Bahadur about the massacre in Delhi and the military help offered by him to Lord Canning. Jung Bahadur plans to visit Lord Canning in Calcutta in November and he requests that Hodgson comes to Calcutta at that time as his wishes to have a meeting with Hodgson. He writes about the rumour of the fall of Delhi and that Nepal's Gorkhali troops are to be sent off the next day. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 28 June 1857.

Letter from Lord Canning, Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his letter and that of Prinsep and to return the prints. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 17 November 1857.

Letter from Sir George MacGregor to Brian Houghton Hodgson to tell Hodgson that he has been appointed as Military Commander attached to the forces of Jung Bahadur from the Nepalese Army. He asks for insight into Jung Bahadur's character and what kind of thanks will be expected for his help. Handwritten, 8 sides, dated 7 December 1857. Also accompanying envelope.

Letter from Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) to Colonel Burrowes to ask him to thank Mr Hodgson for his favourable opinion of Elphinstone's effort in the field of Indian diplomacy. He praises Hodgson's studies. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 24 June 1858, with accompanying envelope.

Two letters from the Natural History Society of Frankfurt to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for donations. Printed letters with handwritten insertions, in German, each 1 side, dated 24 July 1845 and 1 September 1858.

Letter from Philip Lutley Sclater, Secretary to Zoological Society, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to say that he has forwarded the Medal to Hodgson. He writes about the Indian pheasants which Hodgson enabled to be part of the Gardens. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 18 January 1860.

Letter from Wilhelm Schott to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank Hodgson for his gift of Hodgson's 2 volume work on Himalayan languages. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 1 May 1860. With accompanying envelope.

Letter from Professor August Friedrich Pott to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for the gift of papers on Himalayan languages and for his annotations of the printed copy. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 17 April 1860.

Description Green and blue patterned hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 10 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi fragments: Atashi-I Bhiram from Dastun H's MS.
• Dadistani-i-Dini Part II & III from H14, J127, and Kr.

Inserts:

• 2 folios containing the proof copy of West's Book Review of Des Origines du Zoroastrianisme by M. C. de Harlez extracted from Journal Asiatique
• Paper with calculations equating/comparing number of lines of different texts
• two folios with writing in Avestan papers serving as index
• description of contents of Vol 10 & 13 (sent to Dr. Williams Jackson, 11/7/95)

Description: Black hardcover notebook with cover missing and pages falling apart from the binding. Handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with strings. Identified as West 13 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents [all from De Menasce's handlist]:

• Pp. 1-100: " Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. DJ. in the Library of D. Jamaspji Minochiharji Jamaspasa
• Pp. 101: Jamasp Namak ; Mali Fravartln Roc Xurdat; Afrins and Matigan i Si Roc from Sanjana's MS. called Pt in the Grundriss 66 sq.
• P. 122: Notes on MSS. of Nirangistan and on some other MSS in Indian Libraries
• P. 123: Incipit and Colophon of a MS. of Videvdat with Pahlavi translation (T. 12 " from the library of Shet Maneckji Limji Hatarya at Teheran . . . lent to Dr. Jamaspji Minochaharji").
• P. 128: Description of a MS. of Vishtap Yast Sadah belonging to Jamaspji. Description of other MSS. from the same library
• Pp. 200-301: Dadistan-i-Denik, from D. Jamaspji's MS. DJ. collated with K.
• Pp. 306-340: Dadistan-i-Denik (continued from vol 10, p. 246) from K.
• P. 341: Visprat with Pahlavi translation " from Dr. Haug's old MS. H. 6 ".

Inserts:

• pp 1 - 10 are inserts
• notes made on torn envelope
  *folios with "Note on Catrang-namak"
• "Vajorg-Mitr's explanation of Chess , addressed to Takht-retus, the envoy of the Indian King Devasarm to Khusro-I Anoshak-ruban"
• "Note on the Catrang-namak" A correspondence on March 17th (no year)
• folio with "vol 13 pg. 60, pg 61" written in the margin multiple
• scraps of paper: some are indexical, others contain alternate/possible translations
• Proof copy with corrections of "The Pahlavi Jamasp-Namak", contains notes and a short introduction by West
• "15. Note on the Catran-Namak" Proof copy with corrections
• "Dastun Darab's Pahlavi transcript of the Jamaspnamak, from his old Pahlavi Manuscript" Copied 8+9/2/1901 and "transcript of the beginning of the MS. H.7 in Pahlavi"
• "Colophon of J2 (Yasna with Pahlavi) fol 385b."
• Loose folio
• scrap of paper with calculations
• Print of "The Pand-Namah OR, Book of Counsels" by Abarbad Maraspand.
• "From Codex J. (described in Gundrias der Iran, Phil ii, iii"
• "Codex J. final Colophon by Mitroapan Kai-Khusro, 1322"
• "Sagastan"