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A collection of notes transcribed by A. A. W from letters sent to him from E. W. West between May 14th and June 14th 1872. The notes sent were taken from the 'White Note Book'. The notes were originally written by A. A. West, C. West and E. W. West. Alongside three sketches, they list short descriptions, architectural measurements, and dates of surveys undertaken by the brothers.

These are pages 8a and 8b on the folder list.

Notes from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen concerning items they had been discussing. He also writes about a forthcoming visit and thanks for an enjoyable dinner party. Dated: 25 November 1969.

Description: Loose sheets, mainly handwritten in ink, identified as West 57B in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• "Notes from H. Speight's 'Niddendale and Garden of the Nidd'" (8/3/1899)
• Excerpts and summaries from Rawlinson
• A draft of Persian history with reference to History of Persian (London 1815)
• "Notes on some minor Pahlavi texts"
• "Conclusion of Ganj-i Shaigan, from the Tehran MS. (continued from p.11, l.11 ed. Peshton)"
• Excerpts with translations fol. 47a and 74b
• Excerpts from Denkart
• "Notes on First Series of the Selections of Zad-sparam" and serves an indexical purpose to West 10 (Vol. 10)
• "From App. To Dr.. Wm. Rovertson's Disquistion. . . " concerning a 1791 book on India
• Map of 16 Gunterstone Road
• blue folio with Pahlavi and Pazand sentence fragments
• "Pahlavi Alphabets"
• calculation of day
• Books noticed and reviewed in the "Academy" from 1874 - 88
• List of books and MSS "Pahlavi Literature" - a list with word count of each text
• An academic to-do list relating to Dk.
• A glossary
• List of Shahnamah names
• A short newspaper review on "The book of Sage Jamasp"
• Letter and Library Card for E.W. West for the British Museum with envelope
• "Defective lines at the foot of folios" fol.232a (p.286,2) - fol237b (p.300,1)
• "The remaining texts a/// [are] contained in the second MS. of 42 additional folios and are as follows"
• "Bund. Queries"; references to West 13 (Vol. 13) serving an indexical purpose, missing folios noted in red
• copying history of the "Yas" MSS
• Selections of Zad-Sparam
• blue and red page numbers with line numbers
• "Dk. III"
• Eight Reading room request forms
• A copy of a snakes and ladders game with translations. Source of game unidentified

These are handwritten notes taken from Secondary Source material concerning the Azerbaijan Crisis and its related history.The title for this material comes from the original file in which it was housed.

These are handwritten chronological research notes taken from United States sources of events relating to the Azerbaijan Crisis. The title for this item comes from the original file in which the material was housed.

Notes from Sebastian Haffner's Meaning of Hitler.

Notes probably from Manning's time at St Helena on his return from China. These notes mention both Napoleon and Hudson Lowe (Governor of St Helena) and seem to be recording conversations that Manning held with them Handwritten, 2 pieces [1817]

Description: Loose pages, mainly handwritten with ink + a printed sketch. Identified as West 57E in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Notes from the Parsi Prakash of Bomanjee Byaramjee Patel, vol. I; Bombay, 1888". Also several fragments of notes including,

• Timeline from between 1531 to 1689
• 3 folios with calculation in AY years
• "Pedigree of Bharuch Dasturs
• Crossed out text from Dk. VIII and "Nidderdale ", "The garden of the Nidd., by J Speight"
• Several blue folios containing "Les Parsis" by D. Menant and "List of Plates. . . Separate from text . . . [and] . . . In the Text"
• scrap of paper with calculations
• "Pp. No. of events recorded"
• Illustration of "Parsi Dakhma or Tomb"
• "Parsee Prakash," A summary and description of the 1888 text

Notes in relation to the Manila Seminar. 3 pages are handwritten. 4 pages are typewritten (Guerilla Strategy and Tactics)

Notes including about choice covering the dates, 24/03/1972 -10/04/1972. Lion Brand Exercise book with blue cover. With this notebook are picture collages of images from media pasted/sellotaped onto plain paper. 16 sheets, dated 1974-1980.. Plus a further newspaper picture of 2 girls from Passion, January 1984 with notes to Angus on it from Hugh.