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Wooden walking stick with chameleon handle with silver collar bearing the inscription “From the King of Dahomey to Captain R Burton 1863.” This was presumably Gelele, King of Dahomey, (acc. 1858, dep. 1894). Burton’s mission to him in this year is described in "A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (now Republic of Benin), with notices of the so-called “Amazons”, the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade and the Negro's Place in Nature" by Richard F. Burton.

Working Draft of the Byelaws, undated.

World Affairs Book Fair 1967 - advertisement for The World Affairs Book Center - a service of the Foreign Policy Association.

"Written in the early times of the French Revolution" - a poem in 10 stanzas. Later added in pencil "Foolish (1830)". Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides

Papers from the XI Junior Sinologues Conference held in August 1958. These are: "XI JUNIOR SINOLOGUES CONFERENCE" (Padua/Venice August 3-9, 1958) - introductory pages PROBLEMS IN EVALUATING HAN TEXTS: TWO EXAMPLES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM by Derk Bodde QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE LIEH-TZU by Angus Graham TWO PARALLEL CHAPTERS OF THE SHIH CHI AND CH'IEN HAN SHU LE BILAN DE LA ROMANISATION CHINOISE by René Hussenet Critical Evaluation of the South Manchurian Railway's North China Rural Survey by John Young ON K'ANG YU WEI'S CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE CLASSICAL CONFUCIAN CANONS by S.L. Tikhvinsky THE DATE OF TERMINATION OF THE SHIH CHI by Pan Chung-Kwei CRITICAL STUDY OF TAO YUAN-MING by L. Eidlin The importance of Palaeography for the Intepretation of Chinese Texts by Eduard Erkes PERSIAN GLOSSES OF A CHINESE MEDICAL TEXT by Jutta Rall THE WAR CHARIOT IN ANCIENT CHINA AS SEEN BY ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS by Magdalene v. Dewal What are characteristics of the great South-school masters and their respective followers or fakers? by Victoria Contag The Application of Modern Critical Analysis to the Study of Chinese Poetry by James J.Y. Liu Conditions et limites de l'objectivité historique by Jean Chesneaux CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM AS A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL TOOL IN CHINA by Chao Kuo-Chün CLUES FOR IDENTIFICATION; AUTHENTICATION, AND DATING OF OLD CHINESE ART OBJECTS FROM DETAILS IN COSTUME AND INSIGNIA by Schuyler Cammann BEZIEHUNGEN ZWISCHEN PASYRYK ALTAI UND CHINA by Edith Dittrich Köln THE RELATION BETWEEN PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM OF THE WEI AND TSIN DYNASTIES AND MUSIC by Jao Tsung-I EINIGE ERFAHRUNGEN MIT DEN BEIDEN T'ANG-SHU-TEXTEN by Mau-Tsai von Liu LU HSIN'S COLLECTION OF STORIES "NAHAN" AND ITS PLACE IN CHINESE LITERATURE by V. Sorokin Untitled paper by Sybille Van der Sprenkel

Description: Brown softcover notebook ruled with white pages handwritten in ink. Detailed table of contents.With insets. Identified as West 18 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Xortak Apastak transcribed from J.9
• "Contents of the M.S. J9 herein before copied"
• Notes on Sanjana's MS. Of Yasna
• Notes on Pt.4 and other Avestic MSS
• Notes on a MS. Belonging to F. F. Madun

Inserts:

• "Contents of Modern folios prefixed to supply deficiency in old MS."
• tracing paper with cursive Avestan
• "Introductory to Yasna Introduction in Pt. 4"
• Pahlavi statement copied in Pt. 4 (Pahl. Yasna)
• short notes on differences between original and copies
• scrap paper serving indexical purpose
• blotting paper
• folio with "Extract from the Pahlavi Introduction" and "A Colophon of Hoshan Sivyavakhah is preserved in Pers. Rivayah B29 dated A.Y. 847 (A.D. 1478) see vol 14. pp. 170, 171"
• folio with extract from "Pahlavi Afrinagam Gahantrai"

"Told by Mani Lal Mirra of Faizullahpur and recorded by Sheo Nandrau Mirra of the same village, Dt Cawnpur. A kabitt verse on the cheapness of the suite of the gundás": Yaká kí topi sís, dastí áth páí kí…. With translation: On the head a cap worth 2 pice… Unsigned but in Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 2 sides, undated.

Texts: Yasna 11, 26 & 57. Loose folios entitled "Texts" and stamped with "W. Kohlhammer Buchdruckerei Correctur Stuttgart".

A handwritten manuscript of Yādgār-i Cishtī by Noor Ahmad Chishti with an English colophon which states: 'Yādgār-i Chishti by Nur Ahmad Chishti Lahori. Autograph presented by the author in 1858 to Robert Eyles Egerton, then Deputy Commissioner of Lahore. A description of trades and castes in the Punjab.' The manuscript is written in Urdu with annotations. It has a leather binding decorated with flower patterns. However these are much faded and the general condition of the volume is poor.

A single loose leaf is found within the volume. This bears an inscription in Urdu, entitled, in English, 'Inscription on one of the guns in the Castle' and a further sentence identifying the date to 16 February 1754.

Portion of the article "Yi shi gui zai xian li jie" 译诗贵在先理解 by Li Yimeng 李贻萌. Copy of page 46 of the article of poetry translation. A handwritten note on the top-left corner specifies that the copy was lent by Li Yiyuan to Graham on June 9, 1986 and asks for it to be returned.