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Report on the geography, people and trade of Siam. The document is incomplete; there is only the beginning of a section on wild animals. This appears to be a draft as there are corrections and annotations.

The Kiang Chinese Library of the University of California - photocopy of article.

The Kasidah, first edition, second issue. Stiff light yellow paper with half title and three lines of Arabic script in black. Inscribed on front cover: “Harrison Veevers 1885.” Note on separate slip “Title page added and printed (sic) later by Quaritch.” Page block breaking up.

The Kasidah (couplets) of Haji Abdu a1-Yazdi. A Lay of the Higher Law translated and annotated by his friend and pupil, F.B. by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, KCMG, FRGS&c. 1880. London: Privately printed. First edition, first issue. Stiff light yellow paper covers with half-title in black. Found within the pamphlet is an advertsiement for The Kasidah - printed sheet. Note with the book "Kasidah [ ] N.T. 1880" "first edition", "privately printed..."

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. First edition. (London: printed for the Hindoo Kama Shastra Society, 1883.) Parts I, III, V, VI and VIA. Grey and beige paper covers. Accompanying label concerning parts that are present

The Kalavasthaya, 'Record of things seen' by Angus Graham, typed draft of The Kalatíktan Tòk with handwritten corrections.

Description: Black hard cover, unruled notebook, with white pages handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 34 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pp. 1 - 135: "The 'Iranian Bundahish' from Darmester's copy of the MS. TD. belonging to Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria in Bombay, collated in red (above) with his collation of his second MS. DS. as far as p27, l. 20 of this book, and there forward from his collation in his own copy TD. Also collated with TD, Tehmuras' [sic.] own copy of (red pages) whose variants in text are noted in pencil above, and those in collation in footnotes when they are additional alterations" It should be noted that de Menasace gives a detailed description of this manuscript in his list.

Inserts:

• folios with "Contents of Tehmuras's DS MS. (letter of 27 Oct. 82)" stuck to the cover page
• folios serving indexical purpose
• folio with abstract for "Iranian Bundahish XXXIX"
• several scraps of paper serving as markers
• scrap of paper from "asst. lib" suggesting "pp. 137 - 202 [of] MS. 34. [is] exerographed" dated: Nov. 10. 1969
• correspondence between Miss Fell of the Royal Asiatic Society and Kej Barr: postcard from Barr to Fell thanking her for her services with apologies for his tardy response dated: 7.7. 50: letter remarking that "The sample pages of West's Book no. 34 has [been] dispatched 12. 5. '50", Short letter on the Photostat Service and payment from Fell to Barr dated: 12. 5. '50", note card that might have served as a reminder, note card with address of Prof. Barr, receipt from Photostat service. All of these items are from the year 1950 between the Assistant Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Professor Kaj Barr of Denmark.
• folio with "Persons whose opinions are quoted"
• a calendar card from December 1896 with calculations corresponding to the Jewish Adar and the Persian Atur

Draft poems (several variants) titled: The intruders (5 variants, one transiently called "Prayer"), The night without a moon, Touch (reproduced twice), The finish.

'The Intercourse of China with Eastern Turkestan and the Adjacent Countries in the Second Century B.C.' by Thomas William Kingsmill, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society New Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Apr., 1882), pp. 74-104. The manuscript is written in a large soft-covered notebook and dated Shanghai, January 16 1878.

The Influence of Persian Culture upon Europe - essay submitted by G.A. Cary, Trinity College, Cambridge. Typed, 19 pages. With the essay is his identifying details. Handwritten with accompanying envelope.