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Description: Unbound notebook with loose folios from the same, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 51 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• A Pahlavi-English Glossary of V (Vendidad, Spiegel)
• W (Visparad Sp. as given in H. 6, see MS., vols. 3, p. 207)
• C = MS. vol. 3 (page and line ref. all words glossarized except those in list), from pp. 33 - 109, but afterwords only rare words
• M = MS. vol. 13, only rare words glossarized .

Inserts:

• Words to be omitted in Glossary
• Reference to Zend sentences
• Inscriptions of Cyrus
• list of Latin abbreviations commonly found in dictionaries

Description: Large white unruled notebook, no cover, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 46 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi-English glossary. References are given in numbers referring, most likely, to volumes and pages of West's own copies (according to de Menasce's list).

Description: Black hard cover notebook with unruled pages, written in ink. Some inserts. Identified as West 58 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Observations of Germany Drawings of two buildings in Germany with structural descriptors (i.e. size, width, height) "Atlantic cable of 1866" progress table with distance and percentage covered "Guesses at the meaning of 666, quoted by Professor DeMorgan from Mr. David Thom's 'The number and names of Apocalyptic Beasts' Part I, 1848, 8vo A Pahlavi Glossary in transcription with some translation and sparse references

Description: Blue and yellow patterned soft cover notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 50 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi Glossary. On the inside cover there is a list of all the sources used and their respective abbreviations. West also notes the words that don't appear in any glossary.

A New Theory on the Origins of Mohism draft by Chow Tse-tsung (University of Wisconsin), eventually published in Wen-lin: Studies in the Chinese Humanities, Vol. 2 (1968) presented at the 27th International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, 1967.

"A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry by Richard F. Burton, author of 'A System of Bayonet Exercises' (1853)". (London: William Clowes & Sons 1876.) Red cloth binding, gold lettering on front with crossed swords.

A Maldivian Nakaiyterikaṅ (astrology) manuscript. At the commencement of the manuscript it is titled in English, "Nek-ket Were-ingay foy which means our conjuring book". This is followed by an explanation of its use, e.g. in consulting before undertaking a voyage. This copy was made in September 1817 by Nalle Tandy, a "Chitty man" who was the interpreter of the Maldivian language.

A loose plate with photograph of "Buddha from Pangkalan, Ipoh, Perak". Black and white photograph loose sheet from a book or journal.

'A List of the Oriental Coins preserved in the British Museum' by Bernhard Dorn - handwritten list of coins, undated.

A List of the Character Variants and Their Occurrences in the Ma-wang-tui Texts of the Lao-tzu (Introduction), copy of the draft introduction by Robert G. Henricks. There are missing pages in the notes section (notes 11-20). Published in the Journal of Chinese Linguistics Vol. 10, No. 2 (JUNE 1982), pp. 207-275.