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Draft memo from Brian Houghton Hodgson to Sir Louis Mallet in which Hodgson informs Mallet of some of the distances between places in Nepal and Tibet. Handwritten, 2 sides, undated.

This is a typed Manuscript of John and Margaret Cloake's proposed book on Old Tehran, dated 1972. The book is intended as a guide to visitors of Tehran and identifies in some detail the historic buildings of the city. There are also some handwritten research notes and copied maps of Tehran

Draft typescript manuscript for '"I" Said the Tiger'. Within the folder is also a map of India and a photocopy of drawings of ancient lion carvings.

This draft is not fully complete but consists of 14 chapters/ partial chapters plus appendices and bibliographical material. The manuscript is a detailed historical narrative of the events associated with the Azerbaijan crisis.The draft consists of handwritten notes with some additional hand-drawn maps. The chapters are:
Book I The Pre-History,
Chapter 1 The Great Game: Russian Encroachment and British Reaction.
Chapter 2 Constitutional Revolution; Fabric and the Nationalists; Russian occupation and war
Chapter 3 Intervention and Communist Experiment: The Persian Socialist Soviet Republic and other rebellions
Chapter 4 Between the wars: Growing Independence

Book II Wartime,
Chapter 5 Occupation 1941
Chapter 6, From Tripartite Alliance to Tripartitie Declaration: 1942-3
Chapter 7 1944: The Oil Concession Crisis
Chapter 8 The Scene is Set: 1945

Book 3 The Crisis,
Chapter 9 Crisis Events, November - December 1945
Chapter 10 Crisis Events, January - March 1946
Chapter 11 Crisis Events, April - June 1946
Chapter 12 Crisis Events, July - October 1946
Chapter 13 Crisis Events, October 1946 - March 1947
Chapter 14 The Aftermath, 1947-1950

Supplementary material for Book 4,
The Preview and Bibliography

Draft changes to Library regulations - typed with handwritten annotations.

Draft Library Guide detailing Library Opening Hours, Scope and Coverage of the Collections, Contents, The Reading Room, Loans, Facilities, Reprographic Facilities, and Catalogues. Typed document, 5 pages, but on verso are details of accounts for 1999 and other information pertaining to awards made by the RAS.

Draft letters to Dr Gupta and Mr Williams, one of each side of the paper, concerning the conveying of the Gold Medal to India. Handwritten, undated.

Draft letter(s) from Thomas Manning to Madame [de Serrant] in which he writes about his desire to go to China. Undated, handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides

These are draft letters from Thomas Manning to Edward Charles Donne. They are newsy letters about Manning's new home in Redbourn, Hertfordshire.

Drafts of a letter from Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Editor of the Friend of India concerning his views on vernacular educations. Two different rough drafts in which Hodgson writes that since the Editor had recently noticed Hodgson's new edition of letters on education he takes leave to write and lay out his reasoning for teaching the Indian people in their own languages. Each handwritten, 2 pieces, 8 sides, dated 4 December [1847].