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"Introduction to the Study of Siamese Painting" by Quaritch Wales. Copy of article and accompanying plates, undated.

An official letter in Arabic script addressed to a Christian man named Mikhail abd-al Massih who comes from the town Kawm al-Asfar; it is a letter of discharge from further military service; illustrative army insignia on top of the page.

List and short description of the columns in the Ajanta Caves.

Notes on types of columns and paintings within the Ajanta Caves.

Appendix No.1(1), titled "Analysis of Phaulkon's letters of 20th Nov. 1686 to P. La Chaise". Handwritten notes.

Analysis of subscription income and proposed changes, October 1965, advised by the Finance Committee and brought before a Special General Meeting, 14 October 1965.

A manuscript of the 'Analytical Account of the Pancha Tantra illustrated with occasional Translation by H.H. Wilson, Surgeon on the Bengal Establishment, Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal and Member of the Asiatic Societies of London and Paris'. A further note on the opening page records that this manuscript was read at the General Meetings of the Royal Asiatic Society on 15 May and 5 June 1824. It was subsequently published in the Transactions of the Society.

This is a handwritten manuscript giving an account of the Panchatantra, the ancient Indian collection of animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. The manuscript bears considerable annotation by both Wilson and another hand, probably that of Henry Thomas Colebrooke. There is also a Note appended to the end of the manuscript by Colebrooke. The manuscript is contained within a unlined notebook 32 x 20 cm, of which the front cover is missing.

These papers contain two handwritten drafts of the article. One draft is written on pages created from cutting up newsheets which are dated 1895. The second version, though undated, is probably of a later date and it has an accompanying draft of a letter from John Drew Bate, probably to the Royal Asiatic Society, in response to an article published in a Journal regarding the origin of Phoenician and Indian alphabets.

"Ancient Inscriptions in Syria and Arabia Copied by Capt Newbold". A paper with copies of inscriptions and hieroglyphs from Newbold's expedition in Syria. This is undated but from the lists in TJN/2/7 it would appear that it was sent to, but not read at, the Royal Asiatic Society in 1849. With the papers is a label which states, "Ancient Inscriptions in Syria. Copied by Capt. Newbold."

"Angkor Programme des Danses" - printed programme explaining the dances.