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The papers consist of correspondence mainly concerned with Pankhurst's interest and research into Ethiopia, a small amount of printed material, photographs, and Abstracts and Papers from the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art which was convened by Pankhurst in 1986.

A set of five notebooks entitled:

• “Assyrian Inscriptions R. C. Thompson, 1894”
• “Algeria 1901”
• “Kodak Sinaiticus or Grads and Ghouls, 1902”
• “Tripoli 1903” and “A year in Nineveh, 1904–1905”
• Newspaper cuttings and assortments of notes and letters

Two printed pamphlets entitled:

• “A list of words and phrases in the Basrah Dialect of Arabic”
• “On traces of an indefinite article in Assyrian”

The Papers consist of copies of letter sent by Stoddart, a newspaper cutting about his death, and the original containing envelope. These are:

• Copy of a letter from Stoddart to Crawford to inform that he had been appointed Commander of the Escort, a position gained for him by Mr Ellis, which is not onerous and has increased his yearly salary. He also writes that he will stay in Persia unless a more attractive opportunity opens for him. He asks for news from England. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 17 April 1837.
• Copy of a letter from Stoddart to Crauford (different spelling to letter above) from 'Bokhauran' (Bukhara) in which he writes that his appointment to Bokhauran should have made him his own master and therefore at liberty to write more freely. However four days after his arrival he was imprisoned and from 21 December 1838 until February 1841 was unable to write at all. Now however, he is at liberty. He gives news of Heraut (Herat) and Kabool (Kabul) and the military manoeuvres of the Persian and English armies. He writes that he is now well-treated and bears no ill-will. He asks for news to be sent via the Foreign Office. Typed, 3 pieces, dated 1 May 1841.
• 'The Murder of Lieut. Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly, in Bokhara' - a newspaper cutting from an unknown newspaper giving the details of the execution of Stoddart and Conolly on 17 June 1842.
• The original containing envelope with the title, 'Murder of Lt. Col. Stoddart by the Amir of Bokhara on 17.6.1842 - & of Captain Conolly'.

Notebook containing catalogue entries of the Assyrian letters inscribed on clay tablets that were found at the excavations led by Max Mallowan, archaeologist and academic, at Nimrud, Iraq in 1952. Each entry records the measurements of the clay tablet, number of lines on it and the location at which it is found, running from the reference numbers ND 2350 to ND 2499, and from ND2601 to ND 2803. The writing is in several different hands so was probably compiled by the members on the excavation team led by Mallowan.

Advertising card of Kung Cheong, dealer in jewels, ancient Chinese curios, chinaware, etc. The shop was established in 1871 and the card lists two shop locations, one at No 62, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong and the other at Tai Sun Street Central, Canton (now known as Guangzhou). Some pencil annotations on the reverse reading: 'Nic[k] Chang, Kwong Sung, Tuck [illegible] - Photo men under Powells' and the address of 'Wing Hing [China] shop' on Queen's Road.

A 16-line poem entitled 'Tis Sixty Years Since', beginning with the line 'In the vain and everlasting flux and efflux of existence,' signed 'L. C. H.' The handwriting has been identified to be of Lionel Charles Hopkins, who served as the Vice President and a Councillor of the Society. Text on the other side of the document, in a different hand, reads 'Mrs E. Clark at 49 De Laune Street, Kennington', who appears to be the recipient of the document, from 'G[eorge] Justin Lynskey, KC, New Court, Temple'.

Folded and printed colour map of Formosa (Taiwan) on a scale of 1:50000, with inset maps showing details of several ports across the island, including Keelung port, Tamsui port, those on Hengchun Peninsula, etc. Names of the places on the map are written in a mix of Japanese kanji and katakana characters. The map is 100cm high and 77 cm wide. Marked 'With best compliments, T Murby' on the front when folded.

13 sheets of ink rubbings of inscriptions of steles in Chinese dating to the Han dynasty, many of which are illegible. Among the identified ones are steles now held at the Temple of Confucius, Qufu, China, including:

• two sheets of rubbing of the memorial stele for Kong Jun (漢孔君碑), erected in AD 155
• one sheet of rubbing of the Shi Chen Stele (史晨碑), erected in AD 169
• one sheet of rubbing of the Ritual Vessels Stele (禮器碑), erected in AD 156

Leather-bound manuscript entitled ‘Extracts of a Journal of a Voyage to the East Indies and return to England, Annis Domini 1817 and, 1818 in a merchant ship of the H. E. I. C. [Honourable East India Company]’. The manuscript documents the encounters of the writer, Robert Millar, an assistant surgeon aboard the East India Company ship Princess Charlotte of Wales, in his journey through Madras, Calcutta and St Helena. In the preliminaries the writer writes that he has copied out this manuscript form his notebook for the perusal of his sister, Anne. The manuscript includes a printed map of Bengal, 'projected by C. A. 1810', an illustration of an adjutant described by the locals and an annotated diagram of the canoe vessel used by the natives.

With Sir Cyril Walter Gurner's bookplate on the inside pastedown. A typescript note on the flyleaf, dated January 1957 and signed by Gurner, shows that the manuscript was purchased by the late L. S. S. O'Malley Esq., Indian Civil Service, in Norwich, and came into Gurner's possession when O'Malley left for Calcutta.

A map of the southern coast of China, in the form of a scroll, covering the area of present-day Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. It labels various major towns and smaller islands along the coast, including Guangzhou, Chaozhou, present-day Hong Kong and Macao and more, with a scale bar and legend (although probably not drawn to scale). Locations of settlements and military structures such as towers and forts are also indicated, with text describing the depth of water and distance from the coast at various points. The map measures 40cm high and 485cm wide. It has been removed from its original container, a wooden cylinder, which is now stored alongside each other.

An accompanying typed note refers the item as 'Ch'ou hai t'u pien' (籌海圖編), No. 429 on page 75 of Samuel Kidd's catalogue and a donation by Sir George Staunton. This catalogue reference appears to be incorrect, as it does not correspond to Kidd's Catalogue of the Chinese Library of the Royal Asiatic Society (1838), but Henry Holt's A Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscript in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society (1890). However, Holt's entry describes a set of 8 volumes of 'Ch'ou hai t'u pien' published in 1624, instead of a single map, and this scroll was unlikely part of the volumes.

It is possible that this map was adapted from those originally published in 'Ch'ou hai t'u pien', with extra information added to it, and was specially made for Staunton. Another source from which this map might have taken reference is 'Ya nhai quan tu' (沿海全圖), part of 'Hai guo wen jian lu' (海國聞見錄), compiled by Chen Lunjiong in 1730.