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Material pertaining more specifically to the Sindbad project.

The Sindbad Voyage promotional leaflet containing details of the proposed voyage with a provisional timetable, accompanying photographs and details of the sponsorship. There are an English and two Arabic versions of the document.

'Stitching the First Planks, Sur, February/March 1980'. Tow copies of a sketch of the boat being created.

An advertising leaflet concerning the Sindbad project telling of the sponsorship, the importance of navigation to Oman, and the whereabouts of the boat at that time.

Two drafts of a lecture that Gerald Tibbetts delivered at the Royal Asiatic Society on Thursday 12th December 1968, concerning the origins of navigation in the Indian Ocean.

The Papers consist of five typed article and chapter drafts.

"Bombay under the Crown, 1662-8". Manuscript, numbered pages 15-34, with crossed out heading of "Chapter II". It begins "The mission which had brought Lord Marlborough and the Portuguese Viceroy to India was one destined to bear far-reaching results." Typed document, 20 pages, undated.

Extracts from letters sent from Bombay 1662-1678 from the India Office Records with a compliment slip from L.M. Anstey. Typed material, 12 pages plus compliment slip which is dated 6 November 1924. With these letters is a handwritten note initialed by Rawlinson, suggesting that Dr Spear of Sir Patrick Cadell would make a good article or to put in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society as "Selections from Bombay Archives". Note is undated.

"The Capture of Bassein 1739". Manuscript of article concerning the capture of the Portuguese fortress of Bassein by the Marathas. Manuscript has author's name as H.G. Rawlinson at its end and at head of article H.G.R. has been annotated. Typed, 6 pages, undated.

The Kingdoms of the Deccan - an incomplete manuscript with annotated heading Chapter XXII Part I, and "By H.G. Rawlinson". It has 110 numbered pages and has further inserted pages. Typed with handwritten annotations, undated.