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Notes on newspaper articles
GB 891 QW-QW/2-QW/2/3 · File · 1942 - 1945
Part of Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales

Notebook: brown, foolscap, ruled, handwritten, containing notes on articles published in various newspapers, e.g.. New York Times, Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, dating from 1942-1945.

Wales Horace Geoffrey Quaritch 1900-1981 Archaeologist
GB 891 ACG-ACG/17-ACG/17/1-ACG/17/1/17 · File · 1960 - 1962
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Notes from November 1960 to September 1962 including on progress, liberty, human nature, reason and permission. In back of book are Chinese notes. (These notes are regarded as important regarding philosophy by Christoph Harbsmeier). Soft cover notebook with cream cover. Within the book were further notes on Oppland Tutisthotell paper, originally packed between the pages for March 1962 and June 1962

Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/55 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Green soft cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 55 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pahlavi-English Syntax glossary with references to Denkart
Inserts:

  • scrap paper titled, "Pahl. words from Avesta"
  • blotting paper,
  • blank scrap of paper titled "officials Dk. Viii"
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/70 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.

Contents:

  • "Headings of Sections of Shanamah from Macan's edition, Calcutta 1829"
  • Pahlavi-transliterated-Persian words where some have folio and MS. numbers; short unorganized notes on Pahlavi and Persian grammar
  • summary of article by Professor Terrein de Lacouperie in the "Academy" from 10 Oct. 1885, p.243-4 #
  • notes on inscriptions and their locations in libraries
  • notes on printing and correcting proofs calculations relating to the sun, moon, and the earth
  • notes on different coins
  • "Period of Gestation in Various animals, in days"
  • short note and summary of different eras in different cultures according to different theories of creation
  • notes from reading a "Review of History of India as told by its own historians" from 'Academy' 11 Sep 1886.

Inserts:

  • Scraps of paper with a short glossary with word meanings in English and a note on the population of Parsis in different parts of the world
  • transliteration of a Pahlavi excerpt
  • Reading room request form
West Edward William 1824-1905