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Research Notes
GB 891 RTM-RTM/3 · File
Part of Papers of Richard and Turner Macan

Two sheets of research notes in a modern hand and written in biro. The first bears notes on the Letter Book, giving page numbers of some of the salient details. The second has some biographical notes for Turner Macan. The author of these, and when they were written, is unknown.

Research Notes
GB 891 WA-WA/8-WA/8/2 · File · [1925 - 1932]
Part of Papers of William Edward David Allen

Notes concerning the images, possible titles for those to be used within the book. Handwritten, 13 pieces, 14 sides, undated.

Allen William Edward David 1901-1973 Caucasian historian
GB 891 WP-WP/1-WP/1/3 · File · 8th Jun 1929
Part of Papers of William Pettigrew

Handwritten manuscript titled 'The Original Notes' on archaic Manipuri, taken by William Pettigrew chiefly at Harvard Library and the British Museum. Annotations are made on some pages in modern and archaic Manipuri.

Stored with the manuscript are two items:

  • Letter from Roland B. Dixon (1875-1934), Harvard University, giving updates on the progress of William Pettigrew's research on archaic Manipuri inscriptions, dated 8 June 1929
  • 'Rules and Regulations of The Asiatic Society of Bengal', printed by The Baptist Mission Press at Calcutta 1929, signed on the cover 'WP 27/3/39' [Pettigrew was elected Associate Member of the society in 1939]
Reverend William Pettigrew
GB 891 CAS-CAS/10-CAS/10/5-CAS/10/5/1 · File · 4 March 1919
Part of Papers of Charles Ambrose Storey

'Research Student: Work Approval' - note From Edward G. Browne to inform that the Degree Committee of the Special Board for Oriental Studies had decided that the work of Kamal'd-Din Ahmad was of merit as original research.

University of Cambridge
GB 891 BHH-BHH/13-BHH/13/25 · File · 1875
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

"Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology and Archaeology in connection with the Origin of Culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian Families by Hyde Clarke" Printed Pamphlet published by N Trübner & Co., London. Hodgson has inscribed his own title and date of reception on the front cover but has not annotated the material. Soft bound pamphlet, 74 pages, dated 1875.

Clarke Hyde 1815-1895 Engineer, philologist and author
GB 891 WST-WST/7-WST/7/3-WST/7/3/1 · Item · 1853 - 1861
Part of Papers of Arthur Anderson, Clement, Edward William, Henry, and Walter West

Descriptions, plans and drawings relating to the excavations in Cave No. 13. These were published in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10th October 1861. Included are:

  • A draft descriptive paper.
  • Plan of Cave 1.3 Drawings of stone pots.
  • Drawings of copper coins and sundry found in the stone pots.
  • Drawings of clay receptacle containing seal.
  • Further drawings of clay receptacles.
  • Drawings of 16 fragments.
  • Drawings of 9 seals.
  • Drawings of 12 seals.
  • Lithographs of seals.
  • Further drawings of seals.
  • Sundry notes.
  • Letter from Arthur Anderson West to Edward West, 25 August 1861, checking the date of the find Tracing of the plan of Cave 13.
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 ACG-ACG/17-ACG/17/3-ACG/17/3/15 · File · 1972
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Retranslating the Translation by Angus Graham. Photocopies, typescript and handwritten original poems and their multiple translations produced by 8 students during a seminar led by Angus Graham in the autumn of 1972. With the poems is a description of the exercise and the student list.

Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991