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GB 891 BHH-BHH/11-BHH/11/6 · File · 1845
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

"Memo of Zoological Collections." List of drawings delivered to the British Museum by his father and to the Zoological Society in 1845. Further 4 copies of a list of "Distribution of B.H.H's. Zoological Productions." Also a rough note of zoological specimens. Handwritten, 6 pieces, 7 sides, dated 1845.

Hodgson Brian Houghton 1800-1894 Orientalist
GB 891 RB-RB/3-RB/3/1 · File · [1862]
Part of Papers of Richard Francis Burton

Memoir of Captain Richard F. Burton (Extracts from the Press). (Unidentified reprint.) Double sheet. Despite the subtitle, the work reads as a continuous composition. On internal evidence dates from around 1862, i.e. 20 years after the beginning of his service in the Indian Army. It mentions his visit to America in 1860, but not his marriage or his diplomatic career which both began in 1861

GB 891 BHH-BHH/13-BHH/13/14 · File · 1840
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

"Memoir on the Hodésum (improperly called Kolehan) - By Lieut. Tickell". Unbound offprint with handwritten annotations and a sketch of Tickell from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1840. Printed by Bishop's College Press, 16 pages, 1840.

Tickell J.R. Resident at Kathmandu
GB 891 RAS JOUR-RAS JOUR/16-RAS JOUR/16/4 · File · 1824 - 1843
Part of Royal Asiatic Society: Journal

'MSS Memoir on the Length of the Illahae Guz' by Colonel John Hodgson. This includes a letter pasted into the manuscript from Hodgson to Richard Clarke concerning the manuscript, dated 21 August 1841, and also a postscript written within the volume by Henry Newnham, dated 22 May 1824. The article appeared in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society XIII (1843), pp. 42-63.

Hodgson John 1779-1845
GB 891 SC51 · Fonds · 1872 - 1876

A handwritten copy of the Mémoire sur l'histoire ancienne du Japon : d'après le Ouen Hien Tong Kao de Ma-Touan-Lin written by the Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys, President of the Society of Ethnographie, originally published in 1872. This version was copied for Ernest Mason Satow by the 'Ph. [Society] Japaniste' in 1876.

It is a small bound volume with red cover and bearing the bookplate for Ernest Mason Satow, Yedo, on the inside cover.

Saint-Denys Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq Hervey de 1822-1892 Marquis
GB 891 AR-AR/1-AR/1/4 · File · [1880] - 1900
Part of Papers of Alexander Rogers, 1825-1910

Handwritten index for the translation. Uncovered notebooks between cardboad boards with title "Tuzuk-i-Jahāngīrī translated by Alexander Rogers, Bo Civil Service Retired: Index". 176 pages.

Rogers Alexander 1825-1910 Indian civil servant, Author
GB 891 AR-AR/1-AR/1/3 · File · [1880] - 1900
Part of Papers of Alexander Rogers, 1825-1910

The handwritten manuscript for unpublished chapters of The Memoirs of Jahangir written by Alexander Rogers covering Years 20, 21 and 22 of Jahangir's reign. 227 pages in uncovered notebooks. The ultimate page is in poor condition.

Rogers Alexander 1825-1910 Indian civil servant, Author
GB 891 AR-AR/1-AR/1/1 · File · [1880] - 1900
Part of Papers of Alexander Rogers, 1825-1910

The handwritten manuscript for the first volume of The Memoirs of Jahangir written by Alexander Rogers with annotated and inserted edits by Henry Beveridge. 684 pages of Rogers' manuscript in uncovered notebooks, with additional pages of Beveridge corrections.

Rogers Alexander 1825-1910 Indian civil servant, Author
GB 891 AR-AR/1-AR/1/2 · File · [1880] - 1900
Part of Papers of Alexander Rogers, 1825-1910

The handwritten manuscript for the second volume of The Memoirs of Jahangir written by Alexander Rogers, with annotated and inserted edits by Henry Beveridge. 526 pages of Rogers' manuscript in uncovered notebooks, with additional pages of Beveridge corrections.

Beveridge Henry 1837-1929 Indian civil servant, Orientalist
GB 891 ACG-ACG/7-ACG/7/1-ACG/7/1/8 · File · 27th Aug 1982
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Memorandum from M.J. Daly, Publications Officer, SOAS, to Angus Graham to inform him that all 150 copies of Chuang-tzŭ: Textual Notes to a Partial Translation had been sold. They can now reimburse the money given by Graham towards the cost of publications. He also asks whether it would be worth printing a further 100.

Daly Martin John b 1939