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Manuscript draft entitled Values and Myth with chapters entitled Values, Aesthetics, and Myth. Two copies, 1 of 174 pieces, 1 of 162 pieces, both undated.

Vampiri in un solo morso was published in Il Manifesto, Rome (1 September 1986). The material consists of a news-cutting of the article and three English drafts by Graham.

Description: Brown hardcover notebook unruled with white pages handwritten in ink. Detailed table of contents. With inserts. Identified as West 19 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Variants used for Vistasp Yast Sadah
• The Oersuab Zartust Namah (transliterated)
• Denik Vicirkart (continued from vol. 3 p 272) from JE
• Description of other texts contained in JE
• "From Dr. Wilson's Rivayat in the Earl of Crawford's library"
• Fragment of Patet i Aturpat and other short Pahlavi texts from MSS. in the same Library
• Colophons of various MSS (Sadat)

Inserts:

• folio titled "Contents of Dini-Vajarka"
• scrap paper with line count of different folios
• short notes on the fragments
• one-liner descriptions/translations of parts of Fragment III
• scrap paper with description of Dinkard Book III from Copenhagen, fragment of a translation (author, translator and source unknown), short factoid about Dastur Kaus Fredun Munajami, and other information serving indexical purpose
• scrap paper with translation (source and translator unknown) with corrections in red

Varieties and Theories of Mystical Experience - Outline of a course in religious studies focused on mystical experience led by Professors Sumner Twiss and Harold D. Roth at Brown University in the semester 1988-89.

Included are five diagrams of various agricultural tools and machines, all of which are labelled. They are as follows:

• 1) A press
• 2) A cart
• 3) A plough
• 4) Parts of a plough, one noted as being at Varanasi (Benares).
• 5) An agricultural machine, with names of its parts inscribed in Persian.

Four separate fragments, handwritten in Hindi, with notes on all in Elliot's hand. Simon Digby notes more clearly the content of each fragment:

• 1) 'Bayan Barsaat Hone Ka'
• 2) 'Songs about Rain'
• 3) 'Baiswara Raj ka Rag'
• 4) Couplet from 'Candela Vamsavali' on the origin of the Rathore (Rajput clan)

• 1) Two English letters addressed to Elliot, complete with envelope, concerning notes and translations for Elliot's 'Glossary of Terms' - one is signed, but the name is yet to be deciphered.
• 2) Another letter within the file in an Arabic script, possibly Persian or Urdu, with English notes on the reverse in Elliot's hand.
• 3) One fragmentary note in English 4) One fragment of English printed material. The articles included in the cut-out are as follows: Commercial Listings, General Orders, 'The Indian Passage' and 'Shiva and the Caves of Elephanta'

'Various methods of cheating practiced by Goldsmiths and their language' - a document listing ways in which a goldsmith may try to cheat a customer and the language they use to communicate between them. The document looks like an early draft for an article as it has many corrections.

Four handwritten notes in various languages, namely Arabic, Hindi and Persian:

• 1) A list of names within the Khatri caste in Punjab
• 2) Persian date verse of the building of the fort at Rohtas
• 3) Hindi letter 4) Fragmentary lines in Arabic

Various unbound notes and letters, including:

• Translations to English of words from Indic languages for Elliot's Glossary.
• One page of rough Devanagari script.
• Four pages with notes on the population and revenue of areas in India.
• Letter from B.N.C Hamilton providing information on castes and villages.