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Description: Small black leather softcover notebook with ruled white pages. Multiple inserts.
Contents: Excerpts and summaries from various sources relating to Oriental scholars, Persian MSS, astronomy, (e.g. Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society Col 54 [1885] Part 1, pp. 140-2, Chronology of Ancient Nations by Albiruni, Tarikh-I Tabaristan by Muhammad ibn ul-Hasan", Oriental Memoirs by James Forbes, ; ; "Dr. John Fryer's Travels", Indian Gazetteer)
Inserts:

• Folios with title and citation of articles relating to Zoroastrian Studies
• folio with list of books titled "India. Descriptive Works and Travels (old)
• Reading room request forms
• scraps of paper with "1865 Transit of first point of Aries", directions to some place in Piccadilly, book title "Corpus papyrorum Raineri archiducis Austrioe", containing titles for Ancient British History, transcriptions from fragments of the Persian MSS
• Folios with notes regarding Raja Prithviraj, titled "Early Traces of Pahlavi"

"Excavations at Shahr-i Qumis, Iran, 1971" by John F. Hansman and David Stronach. Reprinted from : National Geographic Society research reports, 1970 Projects, pages 237-258. Printed in Washington D.C. 1979.

Printed, stamped, embossed and a wax imprint of examples of some of the emblems used by the Society through its history.

Draft of article by Henricks and associated letter. These are: Examining the Ma-wang-tui Silk Texts of the Lao-tzu: With Special Note of Their Differences From the Wang Pi Text, offprint from T'oung Pao, Vol. LXV, 4-5. Examining the Ma-wang-tui Silk Texts of the Lao-tzu: With Special Note of Their Differences From the Wang Pi Text, typed draft by Robert G. Henricks, eventually published in T'oung Pao 65.4-5 (1979): 166-199, 59 pieces. Letter from Robert G. Henricks to Angus Graham to send Graham a copy of his T'oung Pao article, dated 27 October 1980.

Description: Uncovered notebook with lined pages, handwritten in ink an pencil. Identified as West 57D-1 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: E.W. West's occasional papers and other literary works - a list of papers he has written, compiled in his own hand.

Green cover book, the title on the front page reads 'Events of the travels of Jaisalmer', Jaisalmer is in Jodhpur, Rajastan. The text refers to the work as a narration by Khodadad Khan, secretary to the office of the Commissioner of Sindh. It is a report which has been approved by a committee with the mention of the town Karachi.

Photographs taken at Lectures and Book Launches. These are all held electonically.

Event Notification Card for the Presentation of the Public School Gold Medal to D.E.F.C. Binyon (Westminster School); the presentation being by the Right Honorable Lord Chalmers, G.C.B.. Printed material, event date 18 December 1923.

Poster to announce that the British Library in association with the Royal Asiatic Soicety presents the lecture, "The Book of Kings: The Juki Shahnama of the Royal Asiatic Society" by Dr Barbara Brend to be held at the British Library Conference Centre, 23 July 1998.

Euthanasia Society Correspondence:

• Letter from M. Arnold Brown, Honorary Secretary, to Members to give news of the Society including the resignation of the former Hon. Secretary, Miss G.F. Fishwick, 1 piece, 1958.
• Letter from Lucy Dorling-Bone, Honorary Secretary, to announce the Annual Meeting of the Society on 28 May, 1964, 1 piece,15 May 1964.
• Secretary's Report to the Annual General Meeting, 2 pieces, 15 May 1964.