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Graham was asked to write a preface for the publication of a translation by Witter Bynner. The material consists of correspondence concerning the essay and background material provided by the Foundation.

Wo ist de Liquida? by Ulrich Unger. Draft article published in 好古 Hao-ku Sinologische Rundbriefe, Nr. 34.

Various items connected with the Society's emblems:
Wood block for printing the Society's tree emblem and motto. Wood block for printing of elephant emblem. Steel engraving of Royal Asiatic Society seal. Two examples in green wax of the seal of the Society's elephant emblem. One example in red of the Society's elephant emblem. Plaster cast of the Society's tree emblem and motto with a fragment of the Society's emblem with wreath.

Wooden figure of an unclothed man standing with left leg raised. The right foot rests on the base of the statue. The head is bald and the face looks primitive. The left hand, which holds a circular pan, is broken off the statue. Height (including base) is 35cm and an approximate width of 10cm. A later label on the base states "H.G. Quaritch Wales Bequest. Folk Art, S. Thailand/N. Malay Peninsula". It is unknown whether this label is accurate.

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"