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Rough sketches and notes of so-called 'Visitor Inscriptions' predominantly from Cave No. 10. There is one inscription from Cave No. 3. The names and dates inscribed onto the walls on Cave No. 10 have been copied in the style and arranged in an order which indicates their location in the caves. These are dated 1678, 1697, 1706, 1708, 1710, 1718, 1735 and 1771.

Visitors' Book for the Sesquicentenary Reception containing the signatures of the guests including those of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 20 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• "Vishtasp Yasht, with Pahlavi; copied from a MS in Dastun Jamaspji Minocheherji's library, presented by him, and collated with the original. January 1876.- EWW"

Within this series there are rubbings probably from inscriptions on copper plates, diagrams of agricultural tools and a hand-drawn map of Baiswara.

Vocabulaire tagalog-francais-anglais by Aristide Marre and Isabelle Pinches. A handwritten manuscripts of Tagalog, French and English vocabulary. It appears that the Tagalog-French entries were probably provided by Marre and the English translations by Isabelle Pinches. This is written on the reverse of pages cut from French Gas bills, dating from 1900 to 1906.

Vocabulary notes.

Vocabulary of the Broken Tribes of Himalaya. "Printed in Jour. Asi. Soc. Bengal, Vocabulary of Broken tribes of Himalaya to As. Soc of Bengal Oct 9 1857 with memoir on Váyus". Vocabulary sheets comparing English, Kusundá, Pákhyá, Thakśya and Tháru. handwritten, 6 large sheets, dated 9 October 1857.

Policies and Allied Documents concerning Volunteers working with the Collections.

Correspondence concerned with the Legacy of W.H. Moreland on his death in 1938 in which the Society were bequeathed some of his possessions, the income from his publications and one quarter of his estate upon the death of other named members of his family. The correspondence concerning this dates from 1938-1940.
There is further correspondence from 1956-1958 after the death of his family members and also earlier correspondence concerning publication of his books, dated 1922-1923.

"W.A.C.H. Dobson, Late Han Chinese: a Study of the Archaic-Han Shift, University of Toronto Press, 1964." Two typed drafts of a review of this book, one with extensive handwritten annotations and the other with further handwritten notes, 19 pieces.