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Notes on types of columns and paintings within the Ajanta Caves.

List and short description of the columns in the Ajanta Caves.

B&W photograph (taken from painting) of an unidentified man.

An official letter in Arabic script addressed to a Christian man named Mikhail abd-al Massih who comes from the town Kawm al-Asfar; it is a letter of discharge from further military service; illustrative army insignia on top of the page.

"Introduction to the Study of Siamese Painting" by Quaritch Wales. Copy of article and accompanying plates, undated.

'Unto us a Child is Born' - a manuscript documenting the story of the rise and fall of a supposed miracle or holy child in a village near the Indo-Afghan border. The narrator describes himself as a junior officer serving in an administrative capacity. The story is of interest to him for its potential disruption to the area as people took sides believing or negating the child, who showed his holiness by wanting his father rather than his mother. The incident occurred a little while after Halley's comet had been visible in the night sky which some took to be a portent. The matter died down once the child started preferring its mother.

The story would seem to be related by somebody in the nineteenth century, but the document is from the mid-twentieth century. There are no identifiers as to the author or the narrator, so it is possibly a transcription of an earlier text or a work of fiction.

"An escorted tour of Persia, 1973" - Printed itinerary by BOAC with handwritten annotations, 1 piece, 2 sides.

An Equivocation in Confucian Philosophy, draft article by Dennis M. Ahern, eventually published in Journal of Chinese Philosophy 7.2 (June 1980): 175-185.

"A Key to Scripture; being an Enquiry into the Order of Chapters of the Qur'ān" - a handwritten manuscript documenting the author's investigation into the chronological order of the chapters of the Qur'ān. He presents an introduction to his thesis, followed by a Synopsis of the Classes, Sections and Chapters; with further sections on the Distinctive Characters of the chapters, the Distribution and Arrangement of the Makka chapters; and On the Determination of the Madina Years and their chapters. These chapters are handwritten on foolscap sheets covering 132 pages of the volume.

"An Engraved Stone with Pahlavi Inscription from Baghdâd" by E.W. West from Indian Antiquary, vol. xi, 1882. A proof copy with 2 proof copies of impressions from the engraved stone. And an offprint of the article.