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"Memo of published work - books - now here Dec/82". Rough list of books. Wrapped round this list is a letter which is a note from Joseph Hooker about being glad that he is in England. Hodgson has used the reverse to make notes regarding return of a book to Hooker in 1868. Handwritten, 2 pieces, 4 sides, dated 1868-1882.

"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.

A self-published work by William Augustus Collins, entitled 'Wander Years: A Memoir of Travel from 1961 to 1964'. The memoir is 286 pages long and is a personal account of the author's travels in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australia and the Pacific during his formative years. A digital copy of the memoir is available in PDF.

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

"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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.