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

Magazine excerpt about Sukhe Bator (1893-1923), hero of the Mongolian revolution, from Culture and Life, March 1971.

News article about living in modern Mongolia, from Le Monde, 15 August 1973.

Report on the increase in the number of Przewalski horses in zoos around the world, from the Oryx, February 1974.

Newspaper article reporting a speech by Brezhnev in Ulan Bator to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Third Congress of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. From the Soviet News, 3 December 1974.

Two Bills of Exchange for Capt James Purefoy. One is for £30 nad addressed to Messrs Smith Richards & Co, 2 Mansion House Place, London; the other is for £20 and addressed to Messrs Edmund Boehm and John Taylor, London. On the reverse of each is written that they should be paid to Robert Turbett. They are both dated 1st March, 1819, printed with handwritten insertions, 2 items each 2 sides.

This material contains a letter from major Cunningham describing the "Haram of Ali Raza" at Mashhad and a copy of the "Ziarat Nameh" said at the shrine. There is also further Royal Asiatic Society correspondence concerning what to do with this donated material.

Copy of a letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr. Arberry to ask his advice concerning the Cunningham papers. He asks whether they are suitable for publication in the Society's Journal, though Major Cunningham has not requested it.

Copy of a letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Major J.R. Cunningham to thank him for the material, on behalf of the Council. He first apologises for the delay in responding because, "The offices have been closed for the Christmas Holidays, and have been rather deranged by A.R.P. measures and the necessity of sending our treasures away to a place of safety". He states the material, "will be placed, with great pleasure, in the Society's Library, where it will be of value to students, who will be interested in the great changes you have reported upon".

A set of handwritten notes concerning inscriptions. They are titled:

• The Naqbu-i-Hajar Inscription with commentary
• The Hisn Ghurāb Inscription
• Nouvelles Études sur L'Epigraphie du Yemen par MM Joseph et Hartwig Derenbourg
• Minoean B.M. 92 Glaser 284
• Comparative Alphabet