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Description: Red and blue patterned hardcover notebook with blue-tinted pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of contents and page numbers. Identified as West 11 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Kitab-i-Dron Yastan (from London 14)
• Kitab-i-Vazargird (from L. 24)
• Fragments of Sanskrit and Gujarati Yasna I. (from a MS. belonging to Max Muller)
• Introduction from Max Muller MS.
• "Flower of the Gulmor Tree" pressed in

Inserts:

• Paper that serves an index
• Some flowers and some leaves

Description: Large white unruled notebook, no cover, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 46 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi-English glossary. References are given in numbers referring, most likely, to volumes and pages of West's own copies (according to de Menasce's list).

Description: Tracing paper held with string with several loose folios, handwritten in ink and pencil. Fragile. Identified as West 49 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Alphabetical Index of Westergaard's edition of the Bundehesh to which are added all the Pahlavi words occurring in the Old Pahlavi-Pazand and Zand-Pahlavi Glossaries".

Description: Blue and yellow patterned soft cover notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 50 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi Glossary. On the inside cover there is a list of all the sources used and their respective abbreviations. West also notes the words that don't appear in any glossary.

Description: Unbound notebook with loose folios from the same, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 51 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• A Pahlavi-English Glossary of V (Vendidad, Spiegel)
• W (Visparad Sp. as given in H. 6, see MS., vols. 3, p. 207)
• C = MS. vol. 3 (page and line ref. all words glossarized except those in list), from pp. 33 - 109, but afterwords only rare words
• M = MS. vol. 13, only rare words glossarized .

Inserts:

• Words to be omitted in Glossary
• Reference to Zend sentences
• Inscriptions of Cyrus
• list of Latin abbreviations commonly found in dictionaries

Description: Brown hardcover notebook, unruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 52 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• "Most valuable notes as regards to 'Dinkard,' etc
  *." A Pahlavi-English Glossary with full references to Denkart Bks. VII - IX
• "Pazand Texts prepared by Dastur Hoshangji"

Inserts:

• several folios and scraps of paper containing calculations on lines and number of words, rough drafts of paragraphs of future essays, fragments of translation, word meanings, "additional Huzvarish words"
• additional Hebrew-Huzvarish words;
• "notes from Prof. M. J. Muller's 'Essai en la Langue Pehlive,' Paris 1839"
• omission of words from glossary, diagram that seems like a map to a library or a possible ordering of books or a potential reading method; Some of the inserts in the latter part of the book are loose pages.

Description: Black softcover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 53 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Incipient sketch of vocabulary" Pahlavi-English Dictionary with references to Denkart.

Printed material both authored by West and collated by him.

Proof pages from a Pazand-Pahlavi (Middle Persian) glossary with handwritten annotations. Pages 225-276, stamped with Proof Oxford University Press from 27 April 1887 - 25 June 1887.

Proofs for a glossary of Pahlavi words with transliteration, subdivided into chapter I - XXIII, Appendices I-V. Loose folios with handwritten corrections and handwritten insert.