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Description: Brown hardcover notebook with white ruled pages, handwritten in pencil and ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 67 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: Extracts and notices from readings on Iranian and Indian Subjects

• Ferguson's Illustrations of Rock-cut temples of India
• Translations by Captain Fell of Sanskrit I
• Dr. Haug's Zand, Pahlavi and Pazand MSS
• Anquetil-Duperron's account of his MSS
• MSS in East India Library, London = L
• MSS in British Museum Library, London = L. b.
• MSS in Bibliotheque Imperiale de Paris = P
• MSS in Bodleaine & Radcliffe libraries at Oxford = O.b. & O.r
• MSS. of Burnouf, Wilson, Westegaard, Mullah Firur, etc
• Notes on MSS of Zand texts from Westergaard's preface to Zend-Avesta
• Summaries of inscriptions and articles from different Asiatic journals and books ("Ker Porters Travels," "Asiatic researcher," "Journal. Asiatique," "Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society," "Histoire genereal des Voyage" Vol 1 & 3. by Prevost)
• Summary and transcription from some "Zand & Pahlavi MSS. at Kopenhagen University Library
• E. Thompson's transcript of two Inscription at Persepolis" J.R.A.S 1868 pp.355 - 6
• Pahlavi Grammar
• Greek inscriptions

Description: Black hardbound leather notebook with ruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 70 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• British Museum Additional Oriental MS. 22,379 Vocabulary Pahl.-Z.-Pers.
• Persian couplets from the same; description of content and objects in the Ouseley Collection (i.e. Bundahish)
• copied from "Pahlavi inscriptions . . . By Mordtmann from ZDMG Vol. 18, p.1 - 52 1864. . . . quoting Thomas JRAS Vol.13 and others.
• coins with Pahlavi inscription "of Subordinate kings of Persian provinces under the Seleucidie from Alexander the Great" copied from Dr. M.A. Levy's article in ZDMG Vol 21, p.421 - 465, 1867
• Description and excerpt from the British Museum "MSS Reg.16. B.V., Yasna Sadah (Hyde's MS)
• "Darmester's notes and copy of the Vaetha fargard of the Nihadum Nask" from Journal Asiatique (1886) pp. 182 - 6
• Sketch of the Karnamak-i Artakhati-i Papkan
• Burnell's "On Some Pahlavi Inscriptions in South India"
• "French Republican Calendar" from 1793
• Notes of the Literary Remains of Emmanuel Deutsch
• Notes on some books with relevance to the study of Persia and Zoroastrianism
• Notes from Alfred von Gustchnid's Geschilte Irans und seinen Nachbarlanden von Alexander dem Grossen bis zim intergang der Arsaciden
• "Plutarch de Isde et Osiride" trans. by Gustv Parthey
• A page on the Portinigal Yew

Inserts:

• folio stuck to page titled "Alphabet corresponds closely with those in B29 and K25, with a few differences:"
• Reading room request forms
• scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose to other articles or MSS "to-do" list
• folio with list of books pertaining to the Talmud and Judaism
• two scraps of papers with "Inscriptiones Paleo-Persicae Achemendiarum, primus edidit et explicavit, by Dr. Cajetanus Kossowicz, Petropoli, 1872"
• summary of Salemann's Ueber ein Paresenhandschrift (1879)

Description: Green brown patterned hardbound notebook with white pages, unruled, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 69 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• p.3 - 9" Ancient Persian, or Pahlavi words occurring in Richardson's Persian Dictionary"
• pp.11 - 17: notes on the Chaldean language, Assyrian language, from Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies"
• p19. "Type used in an Italian book, printed at Venice in March 1531."
• pp. 21 - 22: "List of Hindi plays, given by Prof. H. H. Wilson"
• pp. 23 - 47: "Pahlavi Vocabulary from Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta"
• pp. 49 - 51: "List of Zend & Pahlavi MSS. in E. I. Library, Westminster"
• pp. 51 - 68: Zend and Pahlavi alphabetic typefaces and style copied from different MSS from different libraries and people (i.e Dr. Haug, Rivayat 29a belonging to Bombay University)
• pp. 70 - 82: Phoenician script and its translations (copy of other works)
• pp. 82 - 88: Zand, Pahlavi, and Persian colophons "Colophon at end of Z. - Pahl. Glos. in N. (2) as given by Destur Hozhangji," "Extract from Dr. Haug's old MS.," "Extract from Fol. 114 or 130a, next following the end of the Zand glossary," several short extracts from K20
• pp. 90 - 2: Syriac and Mendaean alphabet from "Hoffman's Gramatica Syrica"
• Himyaritic alphabets
• "Irish alphabets from Higgin's Celtic Druids"
• "Electric Telegraph Alphabet"
• "List of Persian Verbs, from Mirza Muhammmed Ibrahim's Persian Grammar"
• Measures of the ancients, from Bunsen's
• 'Egypt's place in universal history'
• copy of different alphabets from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of France Vol. 1
• Parsi men's names from Bombay calendar
• Persian Cuneiform alphabet and other alphabets copied from various sources
• Abstract of the book of Enoch, from Archbishop Rich. Laurence's Translation

Album, hardcover, black, labelled "Extracts & Cuttings Volume II, Bangkok 1927" containing newspaper cuttings, B/W photographs and invitations; includes news of birth and presentation of white elephant. It includes the letter from King Rama VII inviting Quaritch Wales to court dinner dances on 1st January 1924 and 26 February 1926; a letter to ask Quaritch Wales to join the Coronation day on 12 November 1925 and to join the lunch at Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall. Contains also news regarding the white elephant from 14-17 November 1927. Some articles have been cut from the album and some photographs removed.

Album, hardcover, black, labelled "Extracts & Cuttings Volume I, Bangkok 1925" containing newspaper cuttings from the Bangkok Times 1925-1926, of events and stories of Bangkok, a trip to Chiangmai and a trip from Saigon to Angkor, including the death of King Rama VI and the coronation, the court circular, reported 26 November 1925. It also includes The Daily Mail, report for Tuesday 21st June 1927 'Siamese Eastern Railway'.

Extracted from Beckingham's History of the RAS, 1823-1973. List of donations extracted from "A History of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1823-1973", by C.F. Beckingham, found in The Royal Asiatic Society: Its History and Treasures" by Stuart Simmonds and Simon Digby (eds.), E.J. Brill 1979. This is an electronic document which was first created in 2007 and converted to an archival document in 2018.

"Extract Report made from the East-India College of the General Examination of the Students, in the Month of December 1817". The Report for Hodgson and his grades scored in the different subjects. Printed paper with handwritten insertions, dated December 1817.

Extract of Letter from Brian Houghton Hodgson to Sir Frederic Currie in which he writes about being awarded the Star of the Legion d'Honneur for his work on Buddhism and his liberality in donation in making available the "riches of this new mine" to French scholars. He writes that his work has also been published in English journals and copies of works discovered were sent to London and Oxford before being sent to France. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 23 March 1866.

Extract from "Commemoration Day at Oxford" which includes the conferment of an Honorary Degree on Hodgson. Printed material in English and Latin, 1 side, dated July 1889.

"Extract of a Narrative affecting the Death of Mr Thomas Manning, Norfolk". Fictional account of Manning's death as a youth. In different hand at head of account is written "a very affecting narrative - worth printing BP". Dated within account as 11 November 1795. Handwritten, 2 pieces, 5 sides