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The manuscript is an exposition of the Four Noble Buddhist Truths, given in the Saccavibhaṅga sutta. Written by an unknown author; date unknown. The item consists of a single A4 sheet only. White paper, black ink.

Notes entitled The Fountain drafts from another experiment with automatic doodling, including drafts. Further poem drafts for Later she died, The finish, Touch, Fireflies.

The Foundations of a Functional Syntax by André Martinet, University of Paris, possibly chapter 2 of his A Functional View of Language,The Waynflete Lectures delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 1961 and published by Oxford University Press, 1962.

The First New Barwis-Holliday Award was given to David Branner for his paper, 'On early Chinese morphology and its intellectual history'. The archival material is:

• 'Barwis-Holliday Award for far Eastern Studies' - an advert for the award with guideline for submission.
• Reports from Sarah Ansari and Tim H. Barrett on the submissions, undated and dated 9 September 2002.
• Copies of emails within the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the prize-winner, dated 18 October - 27 November 2002.
• Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to Lloyds TSB Bank to send a payment to the account of David Branner, dated 23 January 2003.

"The First Meeting of the Committee of the Richard Burton Memorial Lecture Fund". Agenda for the meeting to be held in 14 June, 1921, at the Royal Asiatic Society Rooms, and a List of the Committee Members.

"The First Four Chapters of Goa, and the Blue Mountains: or, Six Months of Sick Leave by Richard F. Burton, Lieut. Bombay Army. Author of a grammar of the Mooltanee language; Critical Remarks on Dr Dorn's Chrestomathy of the Pushtoo, or Afghan Dialect etc. etc. With the articles which recently appeared in the Madras Mail and Madras Times on the coming exposition at Goa, &c., with frontispiece". Extracts from the Madras Mail: Goa and the Goanese, parts 1 and 2 (publ. Oct. 6, 1890). Extracts from the Madras Times: No.1 - The Rise of the Jesuits (pub. Oct. 25, 1890); No.2 - Old Goa (pub. Nov. 4, 1890) and No.3 - Francis Xavier (pub. Nov. 15, 1890). London: 1851. (Madras: Higginbotham & Co.: 1890). "Booklet produced for an exposition [i.e. public display of the relics of the Saint for veneration] “proposed to be held in connection with the tomb of St Francis Xavier, in December next [1891]”.This event, the first such for many years, marked the beginning of regular decennial expositions.

The finish, draft of a poem by Angus Graham.

The Fifth Barwis-Holliday Award was awarded to Dr George Mak in 2014 for his paper, 'To add or not to add? The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Defence of the ‘without comment principle’ in late Qing China'. The archival material associated with this is all electronic and the archival electronic documents were all created in November 2024. These are:

• Advertisement for the New Barwis-Holliday Award giving details about the awards and conditions for submission, two different versions.
• 'The Barwis-Holliday and the Staunton Prize' - list of judges.
• 'Barwis-Holliday Submissions' - a list of the candidates for the Award.
• Reviews on the papers submitted, 9 electronic documents.
• 'The Barwis-Holliday Award' and 'The Staunton Prize' giving notification of the winners of each Award, announcement prepared for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

The Fall - draft of a short story by Angus Graham.

"The Exposition of the Vedanta Philosophy by H.T. Colebrooke Esq…Vindicated; being a Refutation of certain Published remarks of Colonel Vans Kennedy" by Sir Graves C. Haughton. Extracted from the Asiatic Journal for November 1835. Printed material with handwritten note "Sir George Staunton Bart with the writer's kind compliments".