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Various pages in Urdu, some loose and some lightly tied, showing tables of caste and community census in the District of Ghazipur (Ghazeepoor), Uttar Pradesh. Some items appear to be letters or short notes, and most items in the file are stamped with what appear to be official seals.

Some individual and some loosely tied papers, others being handmade booklets, concerning the survey information of castes and communities of local Zamindars (lords and land holders, usually hereditary) in Gorakhpur District. All in Arabic script, probably Persian or Urdu.

Handmade notebook of tables of castes in districts of Upper India, pasted to the front of which is an Urdu letter to Elliot from Chuni Lal, dated January 1825.

Description: Uncovered notebook. Ruled with white pages and handwritten in ink. One set of inserts. Identified as West 37 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Catalogue of an Indian Library; Jamaspik with full Gujarati colophon and table of contents; Videvdat with a Gujarati version.
Inserts: Two folios with "The Nasks" in Dinkard, Dinkard p.273, and those "cited in the Pahlavi Rivayat"

"The Asiatic Society Catalogue of Available Publications" printed by Pressagents Private Limited, Calcutta, detailing all the publications available from the Asiatic Society and their prices. Two copies.

Handwritten catalogue of the Books of Thomas Manning that were in the Chinese Collection of the RAS Library. Each item has an individual sheet which names, describes, visualises and dates the publication. It is unknown when this catalogue was made but before the Chinese Collection was donated to the Brotherton Library in 1963.

'Catalogue of Malay books the property of Inchi Mahomed' - a list detailing 36 books owned by Inchi Mahomet. In 1910 he was the Private Secretary to the Rajah Of Sarawak, His Highness, Sir Charles Johnson Brooke. The document is undated.

'Catalogue of Malayan Books' by Thomas Beighton. A list provided by Thomas Beighton, London Missionary Society, to the Royal Asiatic Society of the Malay manuscripts in his possession. These are written in English and in Jawi script.

Thomas Manning's Chinese book collection was donated to the RAS Library after his death. However his books were added to the general Chinese collections. At some point, there has been an attempt to identify those in the collection which had belonged to Manning. This series consists of two catalogues, some notes on Manning and one later letter. The majority of the Chinese book collection in the RAS was donated to the Brotherton Library, Leeds, in 1963.

'Catalogue of moghrebine arabic Manuscripts in the possession of Jab. Graberg of Hemso'. A list of manuscripts with Arabic titles and English descriptions owned by Jakob Graberg of Hemsö (1776–1847), Swedish Consul to Morocco. This is dated Florence, 26 April 1830 and informs that Graberg also owns a 'numerous Collection of Letters and other Papers written in the modern arabic dialects of Morocco and Tripoli, and a Proclamation of Bonaparte on his landing in Egypt in the year 1798'.