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Description: Blue-green patterned hard cover note book with blue ruled pages handwritten in ink and pencil. Several inserts. Identified as West 65 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: "The 'Yasna' from the Gujarati transcript of Aspandiarji Framji . . . Printed in Bombay in 1218 of Yazdagard" This translation from Pahlavi to Gujurati was certified by "Dozabhai Jamshedji under the date 5 July 1849 A.D.) (A.D. 1850): English translation, including the rubrics, with notes on the textual variants.

Inserts: Note and an excerpt "[f]rom Dr. J. Burgess's letter Oct. 17th. 1898"

"The Wujra Soochi or the Refutation of the Arguments upon which The Brahmanical Institution of Caste is Founded by the Learned Boodhist Ashwa Goshu" "Also The Tunku by Soobajee Bapoo being a Reply to the Wujra Soochi". Printed pamphlet in English and [Sanskrit] with introduction by L Wilkinson, Political Agent at Bhopal which includes that Hodgson had lent Wilkinson a translation of the text. Printed material, 1 item, dated 1839.

Review from The Listener, 'The Wrong War' by Frank Harvey.

"The will of Madhoo (Madhu) Rao Bulal written at his bedside by Nana Furnevees (Fadnavis) in his own hand dated 30 August 1772". The will is written in Marathi with title in English in a different hand. The will lists the people and charities who should be benefactors and include Nana Fadnavis' promise to undertake Madhu Rao's wishes.

The Way of Life according to Laotzu by Angus Graham – article draft, undated.

The Way and the One in Ho-kuan-tzu by Angus Graham was published in Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy edited by Hans Lenk and Gregor Paul, Albany of New York Press, 1997. There are two drafts of Graham's article, each of 19 pieces but one has photocopies of excerpts from the Heguanzi attached.

The voice comes back, draft of a poem by Angus Graham.

'The Vishnu Purána Translated by H.H. Wilson, London 1840' - a handwritten manuscript containing a preface and introduction to all the puranas, followed by descriptions of the Contents of the Vushnu Purána for the 22 chapters of Book One and the first seven chapters of Book 2. It is unclear whether this manuscript was created by H.H. Wilson or copied at a later date. The notebook is only partially filled.

Handwritten within an unlined notebook 20 x 16cm with marbled boards and quarter leather binding. It contains some of the material subsequently published in the Works by the Late Horace Hayman Wilson, M.A., F.R.S.,

Review from The New Journal, 'The village in the Vietnamese war' by Samuel Popkin.

Review from the N.Z. Listener, 'The Vietnam Story' by Nicholas Turner.