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Sherry Reception
GB 891 RAS SESQ-RAS SESQ/5 · Series · 1973
Part of Royal Asiatic Society: Sesquicentenary

Letter from Stuart Simmonds, President, Royal Asaitic Society, to Phil, School of Oriental and African Studies, to thank him for SOAS agreeing to host the Symposium and to ask whether they might also host a Sherry reception for the participants, dated 19 July 1973. Further correspondence accepting the invitation to the Sherry reception held at the Committee Room, School of Oriental and African Studies, on 24 July 1973. These are from Dr. R.D. Barnett, Mr G.A. Calver, Mr & Mrs J.T. Hooker, Professor and Mrs C.F. Beckingham, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and Mrs J.M. Witt.

Wheeler Mortimer 1890-1976
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/17 · File · 1883
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Black hard cover notebook, unruled, with white pages, handwritten in ink. Inserts held by string. Identified as West 17 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

  • Shkand gumanik vicar "from Dastur Hoshangji's Pazand Sanksrit MS. Collated with JJ. and J.135.
    *" Description of MS. Shikand Gumani and "JJ MS. of Shikand-gumanik Vijai."

Inserts:

  • Scrap papers with differences on JJ and JE
  • notes on omissions in West's copying
  • notes for collation
  • scrap papers serving indexical purpose
  • list of "Not glossarized after Chap. V"
  • list of "Not glossarized after Chap. XI, 145"
West Edward William 1824-1905 Engineer, Orientalist Scholar, and Translator
Shkand gumānīk vicār
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/33 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 33 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Shkand gumanik vicar "in Pahlavi nach Cod. Havn no. 28" (probably copied by Haug, with collations by West).

West Edward William 1824-1905