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Review from The Boston Globe, 'An Englishman's view of U.S. campaign in Vietnam' by Lucian W. Pye.

Programme of the Gala Performance of the film 'An Eastern Odyssey' held in the presence of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales in aid of the Royal National Life-boat Institution (RNLI) at the Plaza Theatre, London, on 13 November 1934. This is a printed programme with a message from the Prince, information concerning the Citroën Trans-Asiatic Expedition and details of the film, An Eastern Odyssey, made as a record of the expedition. The final page of the programme lists Patrons of the RNLI and the Committee of the Gala performance.

With the programme is a ticket for the Royal Circle, Seat C9, at the Plaza Theatre and a card giving notification of the dress code for the evening.

"An Early Buddhist Civilization in Eastern Siam" by H.G. Quaritch Wales, reprinted from the Journal of Siam Society, XLV:1, April 1967, pamphlet. The pamphlet contains an inserted letter and carbon data report from the Research laboratory, British Museum, to Quaritch Wales concerning dating of specimen BM41 Muang Phet Eastern Siam, 26 June, 1959.

Description: Blue and green patterned hard cover notebook with unruled blue pages, written in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 59 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: An Avestic glossary transliterated, with sparse references.
Inserts: folios with "Contents of [Pahlavi] Exercise Book" and "Letters in Codex Hogberg B, folio G recto, which resemble Pahlavi letters" folio with summary of "Alberuni" with summary referencing page numbers and notes from "La religion Persan sous les Achemednides" scrap papers serving indexical purposes

An Autobiographical Memoir of the early life of Nana Fadnavis in his own hand. This relates his life from birth until the accession to the throne of Madhu Rao in 1761 when Nana Fadnavis was 19 years of age.

'An Account of Jerusalem from the Persian text of Nasir ibn Khusru's Safarnamah', translated for the late Sir H. M. Elliot, by the late Major A.R. Fuller, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1873), pp. 142-164.

A copy of an abridged treatise on Mirkum, South Indian script. Donated by Henry Harkness, 16 June 1832

Plans and drawings of the Ammarnáth (Amarnath) Temple, near Kalian.

American Rhetoric for Scotland by Anne Stevenson. News-cutting of the Poetry column from Week-end Scotsman, undated.

Draft amendments to the Society's Rules and Byelaws with handwritten notes.