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A single volume entitled "Miscellaneous Vol II". This would suggest it had been part of a larger collection. It contains notes from sources such as Gibbon, Historia Shaahiludii of Dr Hyde, Schifer, Aristotle's Principles of Economics. Three foolscap loose sheets are inserted into the volume containing notes on rights.

Miscellaneous Extracts from Official Documents Volume I copied in the course of Elliot's duties. The manuscripts in this volume are:

• Memorandum of the Heads of information obtained regarding Rauj Suttassie, dated 14 June 1833.
• Continuation of the Birt controversy, dated 5 August 1834.
• Extract of a letter from Deputy Collector of [Gomekpoor], dated 14 February 1838.
• Abolition of the Benares Mint
• Mr. S. M. Boulderson's Finale, dated 17 January 1837.
• Appendix to Report on Delhi Canals with hand-drawn maps, "Plan of the Head of the Soorsoottee River and Somb Rao shewing the drainage of the Sub Himala".
• Measurement of land taken for a Canal, dated 5 June 1845.
• Indirect profit derived by the Government consequent on the use of the Canal. Right of Government to distribute water for irrigation.
• Captain Cautley's Report on the drainage of the Eastern Doon, dated 23 April 1944.
• Indian Revenue Tables, 1809-1840
• Revenue of 1808/9 and 1809/10.
• Land and Sayer Revenue from 1807/8 to 1818/19.
• Receipts and Balances from 1819-1223.
• Total of each year's demands from 1835-1241.
• Land Revenue in the Several Districts Ceded and Conquered Provinces from 1833/4 - 1842/3.
• Receipts of Abkaree in the Several Districts of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces from 1833/4 to 1842/3.
• Land Revenue and Abkaree in the Several Districts of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces from 1833/4 - 1842/3.
• Mr Thomason on Revenue Accounts
• Mr Thomason on alteration of Kirts.
• Two reports on Official and Furloe year, dated 1836.
• Parallel between the Judicial and Revenue Departments, dated 4 February 1842.
• Comparative Statement of Establishment in 1830 & 1841.
• Comparative Statement of Contingent Charges in 1830 & 1841.
• Table of Depth of Well Water.
• Nomination of Cazees, dated 14 October 1845.
• Lord Auckland on Village Police, dated 1807.
• Mr Thomason on Police Battalions, dated 22 May 1845.
• Mr Thomason on Village Police, dated 19 October 1844.
• Mr Thomason on the Mode of Realizing Revenue, dated November 1844.
• On buying of landed property for Government, two reports, dated 25 January 1836 - 16 June 1837.
• Board on the Putteedance sale Regulation, dated 5 November 1833-11 April 1834.
• Memorandum on the rights of cultivation.
• On Enhancing Rents of Ryots.
• Three reports on Enhancements of Rents.
• A Ryot cannot leave his land at pleasure, dated 25 June 1844.
• Position of a Mouroosee Asamee after sale of his Kasht, dated 10 August 1845.
• Mr. Allen on Interest and Soils, dated 25 March 1836.
• On Sudder Board Control over Commissioner, dated 27 June 1839.
• Revenues Officers should not hold leases, dated 1836.
• On the Bhung lease of Seharunpoor, dated 2 June 1849.
• Sale of Land under the Decree of Court, two reports.
• Extract of a letter from the Commissioner of the Agra Division regarding the Revenue Administration, dated 1833/4.
• Average price of Grain, dated 21 April 1836.
• Statistics of Cultivation and Produce.
• Produce of Sugar.
• Statements of Estates the property of Government sold by Public Auction.
• Sales in 1815/16.
• Respecting Husunpoor in Moradabad.
• Major Hearsey's right in Bitheree, dated 8 December 1839
• Turaee Pergunnahs, dated 31 October 1843.
• Turaee Pergunnahs of Rohilcund.
• Sale of Bhyachara Metals, dated 7 September 1844.
• Memorandum of the Area and Population of the NW Provinces.
• Population of the District of Barelly for 1843/4.
• Census of Goruckpoor, 1843/44.
• Tabular Abstract of Revenue Administration Report 1843/44 for Benares.
• Board on Mozuffumuggur Settlements.
• Mr Robertson on reply, dated 28 February 1842.
• Sub-division of Estates.
• Decimal Sub-division of a Bhyachara Village.
• Copy of Mr Thomason's Memorandum regarding States of the Several Collectorships in the NW Provinces.
• Salt imported into Shahjehanpoor from Oudh, dated 9 September 1844.
• On the manufacture of salt from Saltpetre.
• Assessment of Salt Beds in Goorgaon, dated 27 July 1841.
• Stamps, dated 14 March 1843.
• Abkaree farms, dated 15 April 1845.
• Sugar refined and unrefined, dated 1 February 1844.
• Captain Abbot on Jaloun.
• On Gurheebunds, dated 21 September 1842.
• Major Sleeman on the Survey of Saugor, dated 20 March 1841.
• On Proprietary rights in Saugor, dated 22 July 1843.
• Potels in Saugor, dated 19 August 1836.
• On Ejectment in Saugor, dated 28 August 1840.
• Mahratta succession.
• References to Regulations.
• Total Strength of City Thannahs, distinct from District Thannahs.
• Extract from a Pamphlet on the causes of the progressive description of the price of grain.
• Of the Amodah Beegah.
• On Regulation I of 1821. Plantations, dated 24 December 1842.
• Report on Ferozepoor
• Extract from J.A. St. John's Lines of Travelling.
• Mr J. Lawrence on Transfers under Decrees of Courts. dated 2 June 1845.

Miscellaneous Extracts from Official Documents Volume II contains the following documents:

• Historical notice of Buildings situated on the right bank of the river Jamuna at Agra by Professor Luchmun Singh, 24 July 1851.
• Letter from R.N. Hamilton to Henry Miers Elliot regarding the Tobut family of the Bhillah tribe, dated 10 June 1850.
• Extract from a Report from Mr G. Blunt, Late officiating Sessions Judge Cis Sutty provinces, dated 13 April 1847.
• Letter from Brian Houghton Hodgson to Waugh concerning Tibet, dated 10 June 1847.
• Extract from a Report on the disputed boundary between Bikaner and [Buhawnpoor] by the Joint Commission Captains C.F. Jackson and A. Cunningham.
• Diary of Pundit Kunbiya Sall en route to Cashmere of the 28 April 1847.
• Extract of Dr. Jameson's Report on the Punjab, 1851.
• Extracted from Captain Cunningham's Journal under date 20 August 1846.
• Extract from a letter from the Resident at Indore date 11 June 1847.
• Extract from a Report from Mr J Lawrence, Commissioner and Superintendent from Sutty States, dated 24 June 1847.
• Extract from a Despatch from the Agent Governor General Saugor and Norbudda Territories, dated 24 May 1847.
• Extract from a letter from the Collector of the Banba.
• Extract from Mr M. Roberts' Report, dated 12 November 1846.
• Lumries of Las. Extract from Dr Bradley's report on Jaulaab.
• Extract from a letter from the Agent to the Governor General of Bundhcund, dated 21 April 1849.
• Extract from Lieutenant J.R. Becker's Report on the Boundary between the States of Jessulmere and Khyrpoor.
• Extract from Lieutenant J.R. Becker's Report on the Boundary determined between the States of Jessulmere and Bahawulpoor in A.D. 1850.
• Letter from G.A. Bushby to Henry Miers Elliot to explain some of the terms in a report, dated 8 October 1851.
• District of Sookhoo. Extract from Moorcrofts Travels Vol. I.
• Extracts from a letter from the Commissioner & Superintendent Mooltan Division to the Secretary of the Board of Administration, Lahore, dated 16 April 1851.
• Extract from Gilchrist Grammar, Calcutta 1795.
• Extract from a letter from Major W.E. Baker dated 27 May 1847.
• Sketch map of a Proposed Canal for supplying two natural channels in the Ceded Sikh States and Bhuttee Territory.
• Extract of a letter from Lt. Col. W.H. Sleeman, 10 November 1847.
• Extract of a letter from Captain D.C. Graham, Political Superintendent Kolapoor, dated 19 February 1847.
• Extract regarding Irrigated surface. Extract from a Report from the Settlement Officer for Etawa district, February 1841.
• Extract of a letter from Edgeworth to Thomason, dated 22 September 1850.
• Khadir Sands.
• Works on Weights and Measures.
• The Ford of Bhatner.
• Appendix: Explanation of Revenue terms accompanying Jemmabundee Report, 18 July 1840.
• Extract of a letter from the Superintendent Protected Hill States, 11 September 1847.
• A. Cunningham on Bhutan.
• Extract from Justi Lipsi de Nulltia Lib. Quart. Dial. V.
• Extract from the Journal of India and China by a Mahomadan traveller.
• Extract from the translation of Mr Pole's travels.
• Extracts from Oakeley's Travels.
• Extract from Forster's Travels.
• Diagram of the genealogy of the Peshwar.
• Report on Castes.
• Extracts from El Mas'udis' Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems.
• Astronomy, Geography, Anthropology and Natural History Compiled in Arabic by [Naturat].
• Report on a Persian translation of Abu Ryhan Byrany's work on simple medicine and other reports.
  *The temples at Kayiahi 22 miles East from Chattapur Bundelakhand.
• The hermitage of Bhandhuraja Mumi near Allahabad on the Ganges.
• The temple at Kampila or Kapilavastu and the city.
• Genealogical list of the Chaudravandi Rajas of Kumau.

The series includes seven different items related to ancient and medieval Sinhalese literature tradition.

Miscellaneous notes on Being.

Miscellaneous notes on negatives in classical and modern Chinese by Lien-sheng Yang, reprinted from the Qinghua xuebao, New series 9.1-2 (1971), 160-191.

58 Miscellaneous receipts for purchases made and work carried out between 11 May 1830 and 25 April 1838. Printed and handwritten

"A song in honour of Roshan Darwesh the alleged ancestor of the Dafalis": Miśra maghi âge chalâ Roshan… With translation: Crossing Egypt Roshan proceeded onward… Signed Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. Handwritten, 9 sides, undated. Attached to this song are further parts: "Song II of Roshan Darwesh. (His horse encourages him to go to battle)": Ai awâj hâl turbat sê king bacha sun lige… With translation: hear the words of King (Roshan's horse)… Unsigned but on Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 2 sides, undated. "Song III of Roshan Darwesh (Roshan in presence of his mother)": Niyat khair kâ parhâ phatihâ Roshan lewe king kâ pakar ke Tâlâ khulâ waqt merâ jâge main pâon Roshan aswâe… With translation: Roshan prayed to God for heavenly blessings… Unsigned but in Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 4 sides, undated. "Song IV, Roshan's reply": Ammâ sunô tum baten hamarô… With transaltion: O Mother for whose marriage party art thou making arrangements…. Unsigned but in Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 6 sides, undated.

Correspondence concerned with missing and faulty offprints. These are:

• A letter from the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Stephen Austin and Son Ltd. concerned that Dr Emmerick had only received 25 offprints of his article. The Secretary was also concerned that Mr. Hansman's offprints had been delayed in their posting despite the stressed urgency. Dated 5 December 1969.
• Letter from John Hansman to Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd., concerning the quality of the binding of his offprints and finger markings on pages preceding his plates, alongside the delay in the provision of the offprints which caused him to lose some funding for an excavation. Dated 3 December 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to John Hansman to reply to his letter defending the company's production of the offprints and suggesting ameliorative measures, dated 9 January 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to Miss Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the letter the company had received from John Hansman and suggesting the Society might be called upon to arbitrate, dated 9 January 1970.
• Draft letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. concerning the offprints. She points out not only were they defective but also significantly delayed. She suggests an apology would be in order to Hansman and also points out the delay in receiving other offprints requested by the Society. Dated 19 January 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, in which he states he has received a further letter from John Hansman but doesn't know how to proceed other than a further apology. There may be a chance of a reprint if the type is still available. Dated 22 January 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose a letter to John Hansman and to inform of the action they are undertaking. He also apologise for not attending to Miss Crawford's other queries and assures her that the delayed copies will be sent that day. Dated 28 January 1970. The letter is enclosed in which he states that they will be able to reprint his offprints after they have printed the current edition of the Journal. Also dated 28 January 1970.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to thank for his letter and inform that she has received the delayed offprints, dated 30 January 1970.

MISSING BOOKS REPLACED - a table of missing books replaced. This is an electronic document first created in 2013 and made into an archival document in 2018.