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Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with ruled white pages handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with brass paper clips.

Contents:

• Continuation of "Habits des Parsis"
• "List of the Parsi Ceremonial apparatus collected by Professor Haug in India"
• Summary of a section of "The Chronology of Nations"

Description: Black and brown hardcover bound notebook with white pages. Handwritten in ink with detailed table of contents and page numbers. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 15 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Continuation of contents of Rivayat MS. N. 29 (B29a) of Bombay University Library (continued from vol. 14. p. 241)
• On p.23: Az kitah-I Sadidar Nasan - Dan chihal u panjum in-kih [as in vol. 12 (West 12 or EWW/1/12), p.50, 51, see pencilled collation there]

Inserts:

• Copied from Prof. Goldman's letter 14 April 1885, following copies from E2 (modern Khurdah Avesta belonging to Dastur Edalju Darabji Rustamji Sanjana)
• A list of transliterated Sanskrit words with their meanings in English copied from "Wilson's Sanskrit Dictionary"
• "Sasanian Pahlavi Matrixes and Type"

Contents of Autograph Book of B.H. Hodgson. List of all the contents in the autograph book with page numbers and dates. In Susan Hodgson's hand.

A list entitled "Contents of this Box" detailing the folders within the portfolios.

'Conquest of Philippines Will Open "Great Series of Campaigns"' by Quaritch Wales from The Star Weekly, Toronto, 11th November 1944, p.7.

Correspondence concerned with the first Congress of the Federation of Learned Societies of North Africa, held at Algiers University from 10-11 June 1935. These are:

• Letter from Société Historique Algérienne to the President of the Royal Asiatic Society to inform of the first Congress of the Federation of Learned Societies of North Africa and to invite the Royal Asiatic Society to send a representative. The letter informs of the subjects to be discussed. Typed in French, dated 6 February 1935.
• Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to The Secretary, Société Historique Algérienne, to apologise for the delay in replying to their letter but he was still waiting to hear of a suitable representative. Typed, dated 13 March 1935.
• Letter from Professor Henri Pérès to the Royal Asiatic Society to write that is would be an honour to represent the Royal Asiatic Society at the Congress. Handwritten in French, date 15 April 1935.
• Letter from D.S. Margoliouth, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose the letter from Professor Pérès accepting the invitation to represent the Society at the Congress. Handwritten, dated 22 April 1935.
• Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Professor Pérès to send the official form from the Society for the Congress. Typed, dated 7 May 1935.
• Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to the Secretary General, Société Historique Algérienne, concerning the Royal Asiatic Society's representation at the Congress, and to inform that Professor Henri Pérès would represent the Society. Typed, dated 10 May 1935.

Congratulatory certificates and correspondence to the Royal Asiatic Society from other organisations and societies.

Congratulatory Certificate from The Swedish Oriental Society. Printed decorative material enclosed in blue cover with gold decoration and housed in blue box. Dated Stockholm, 1 July 1923.

Congratulatory Certificate from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed decorative material, dated 17 July 1923.

Congratulatory Certificate from Societatis Nederlandicae Orientalis on the Centenary of the Royal Asiatic Society. Undated. With presentation tube, black case with red marbled paper lining and interior label for "Eduard Ijdo, Leiden".