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"Goldsmith. An Almanack" for 1831. Small leather bound almanac with annotations on blank pages including book titles, Polish Consonants, politics. Loose sheets include washing/shopping list, English phrases and in tong kien. Brown leather cover with loose sheets inserted.

"Goldsmith. An Almanack" for 1826. Small leather bound almanac with annotations on blank pages on Catholicism, Chinese, Literature, Publications, quotes from Robertson. Loose sheets include notes on Heresy Laws, receipt for lodging, 1826, price of tea, further receipt, address for Mrs Kang, inventory. Red leather cover with loose sheets inserted.

"Goldsmith. An Almanack" for 1825. Small leather bound almanac with annotations on blank pages including on the price of rhubarb, recipe for parsnip wine, the accomplishments of Genius, the use of rice for food, haulage by road, railway and canal, on language, Roman Catholicism, the witch of Endor and Saul, musical score. Red leather cover, book is detached from binding.

Gogyō setsu seiritsu ni kansuru ichikōsatsu 五行說成立に関する一考察: Photocopy of Toda Toyosaburō's 戸田豊三郎 article from Shinagaku Kenkyu 支那学研究 12 (1955), 38-45.

The manuscript is a Gogerly transcription of Rosyk's translation of the Dhammapada (verses 72-203). Handwritten by Gogerly, in Sri Lanka (Ceylon); date unknown. The item includes two small brown-paper notebooks (32/28 pages, respectively) in a single cover. In the first notebook (verses 1-71) seems to be missing. The text in the Sinhalese script is written on the left hand side pages, leaving the right hand side pages for English translation. Brownish paper, brown ink. The English text is full of notes and corrections. The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings (423 in total) of the Buddha in verse form, and is one of the most widely read Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is found in the Khuḍḍaka Nikāya division of the Theravādin Pāli Canon, and was written around the 3rd century BCE. Each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. 15.8cmX10.4cm.

God by A.C. Graham, two drafts of the short story.

Magazine excerpt about Soviet Gobi desert expedition from the Soviet Union magazine, February 1971.

Draft of poem beginning "Go lovely Flower, that with thy sister flowers". Unrhymed verse. "To Mrs B., greeting from her [Servant]". Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides

Bound volume compiled by various officers containing glossaries of revenue terms for the Indian districts of:

• Agra
• Allahabad
• Azamgarh (Azimghur)
• Betul (Baitool)
• Bijnor
• Delhi (Dehlee)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Etawah
• Fatehpur (Futtehpore)
• Ghazipur (Ghazeepoor)
• Gorakhpur (Goruekpoor)
• Hoshangabad (Hoshungabad)
• Jabalpur (Jubulpoor)
• Jaunpur (Jownpoor)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Kumaon
• Mathura (Muttra)
• Meerut
• Mirzapur
• Moradabad (south)
• Narsinghpur (Nursingpoor)
• Pilibhit (Pilibhut)
• Saharanpur (Suharanpoor)
• Shahjahanpur (Shahjihanpore)

These show the local dialect words for the terms required by the administrators.

Proofs for a glossary of Pahlavi words with transliteration, subdivided into chapter I - XXIII, Appendices I-V. Loose folios with handwritten corrections and handwritten insert.