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The End of the Hero - short story by Angus Graham, three drafts, each 6 pages.

The Episode of Dona Ignez de Castro The Lusiads of Camoens, Canto III, stanzas 118-135. Printed by Harrison and Sons, St Martin's Lane, London (1879) for private circulation. Note with pamphlet: “This is an alternative translation by Burton: privately printed It is very rare.”

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 27 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: The Epistles of Mānušcihr. Transliteration and translation of the text and the appendices as given in SBE 18.

"The exhibition of masterpieces from private collections displayed at the Bangkok National Museum from the 6th March-6th April 1968", by M.C. Subhadradis Diskul. Borankadee (Archaeology) 2(2) October-December 1968. P.82-87. Photocopy of article.

"The Exposition of the Vedanta Philosophy by H.T. Colebrooke Esq…Vindicated; being a Refutation of certain Published remarks of Colonel Vans Kennedy" by Sir Graves C. Haughton. Extracted from the Asiatic Journal for November 1835. Printed material with handwritten note "Sir George Staunton Bart with the writer's kind compliments".

The Fall - draft of a short story by Angus Graham.

The Fifth Barwis-Holliday Award was awarded to Dr George Mak in 2014 for his paper, 'To add or not to add? The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Defence of the ‘without comment principle’ in late Qing China'. The archival material associated with this is all electronic and the archival electronic documents were all created in November 2024. These are:

• Advertisement for the New Barwis-Holliday Award giving details about the awards and conditions for submission, two different versions.
• 'The Barwis-Holliday and the Staunton Prize' - list of judges.
• 'Barwis-Holliday Submissions' - a list of the candidates for the Award.
• Reviews on the papers submitted, 9 electronic documents.
• 'The Barwis-Holliday Award' and 'The Staunton Prize' giving notification of the winners of each Award, announcement prepared for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

The finish, draft of a poem by Angus Graham.

"The First Four Chapters of Goa, and the Blue Mountains: or, Six Months of Sick Leave by Richard F. Burton, Lieut. Bombay Army. Author of a grammar of the Mooltanee language; Critical Remarks on Dr Dorn's Chrestomathy of the Pushtoo, or Afghan Dialect etc. etc. With the articles which recently appeared in the Madras Mail and Madras Times on the coming exposition at Goa, &c., with frontispiece". Extracts from the Madras Mail: Goa and the Goanese, parts 1 and 2 (publ. Oct. 6, 1890). Extracts from the Madras Times: No.1 - The Rise of the Jesuits (pub. Oct. 25, 1890); No.2 - Old Goa (pub. Nov. 4, 1890) and No.3 - Francis Xavier (pub. Nov. 15, 1890). London: 1851. (Madras: Higginbotham & Co.: 1890). "Booklet produced for an exposition [i.e. public display of the relics of the Saint for veneration] “proposed to be held in connection with the tomb of St Francis Xavier, in December next [1891]”.This event, the first such for many years, marked the beginning of regular decennial expositions.

"The First Meeting of the Committee of the Richard Burton Memorial Lecture Fund". Agenda for the meeting to be held in 14 June, 1921, at the Royal Asiatic Society Rooms, and a List of the Committee Members.