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"The Phoenix" on Oriental Literature. News cutting from the Asiatic concerning Asian publications including Hodgson's "The Literature and religion of the Buddhists". Printed material, 1 side, dated 18 April 1871.

Appendix III, titled "The Phaulkon Legend Exposed". Typed notes.

"The Petition of Sir Francis Blake, Baronet", considered to be curious and interesting and therefore presented to the readers. It concerns the "rent" (tax) paid on trade. Date handwritten as February 1796

A Genealogy of "The Period During which the Moota-Valis of "Maneckji Seth Vakuff" managed the Nowroji Hill Estate" as a picture of a tree. Large item, colour printed with the handwritten annotation "With Jalbhoy Ardeshir Seth's fondest regards 18/5/89".

Magazine excerpt about modern Mongolia from the Sunday Times Magazine, 24 January 1971.

"The People in Between": A poem written by an undergraduate of Clare College, Cambridge University concerning the people caught in fighting housed at the Mission in Kontum. The Battle of Kontum began in mid-1971, with a North Vietnam offensive.

The patterns of imagining by Lawrence Gowing, news-cutting from the Times Literary Supplement.

The Partition of Turkey; reprinted from the Manchester Examiner and Times, January 3 and 4, 1881 [Trieste 1881]. Typed Copy of Pamphlet originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntington Library, California).

Colonial Discourses Series Two: Imperial adventurers and explorers part 1: The papers of Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) from the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office by William Pidduck. Adam Matthew Publications 2001. A brief description of the microfilmed Arundel Papers held at the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, with some comments on the life and achievements of Sir Richard Burton. Loose pages.

Description: Green and blue patterned hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 9 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Nirangistan copied from Haug's MS. H8 ("now H.53 of the Zend bodices in the State Library at Munchen")
• A short note by West written on Feb. 6. 1893 on the relationship between his copy and the MS. he copied from
• alphabets of Devanagari script
• short note on "TD3, a modern copy of a MS. of the Nirangistan bought from Persia a few years ago" and a comparison of it to the Bombay MSS.

Inserts:

• "Alphabet of the Shekwati inscription, dated A.D. 973 (Samvat 1030)"
• folio with calculations, descriptions of folios, and some index information
• folio with "Observations" on the Devanagari script
• scrap of paper with transliteration of words and corresponding index information
• folio titled "Further references from Nirangistan, after vol. 9. p. 144. . . "
• small piece of paper that seems to note differences between some manuscripts West was consulting
• scrap paper with calculations
• scrap paper with note regarding errors in TD, guide to symbols in "collations"
• folio titled "End of Nirangistan" two folios serving an index purpose