Description: Loose folios. Handwritten in ink, with original envelope. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• "Transcriptions of Inscriptions. . ., from Ouseley's Travels in the East Vol. 2 p. 42"
• several folios with presumably transliterated Pahlavi inscriptions
• "Naksh-i-Rustam Sasanian Inscription"
• short note on the Sasanian inscriptions
• "Transcript of the Inscription behind horse at Naksh-i Rustom"
• "Transcript of Hajibad Inscription"
• multiple folios of tracing paper with inscriptions
• word meanings from Persian, Hebrew, and possibly Pahlavi written on the back of a poster of "Carlyle's Manifold Writer"
• hand drawn copy of "Conclusion of the imperfect Pahlavi inscription of 70 lines from Naksh-i Rustam"
• "Trilingual Inscriptions on chests of horses in bas-relief at end of hill . . ."
• "On northern bas-relief" at Naqsh-i-Rustom; "Pahlavi Inscriptions"

"Proofs of Facsimile of the Naqsh-i Rastan Inscription published in the Indian Antiquary corrected by EW West". Four pages of proofs plus a tracing of "Ten Pahlavi signatures appended to copperplate Grant to a Syrian Church in Southern India of probably the first half of the ninth century A.D.". All within a blue paper folder with the title handwritten on it.

Correspondence and Papers written by Captain Thomas John Newbold between 1842 and 1849. The majority of the correspondence is from Newbold to Richard Clarke, the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society. The Papers were mainly sent by Newbold to be read at the Society or published in its Journal.

The Papers of Edward William West reflect his interest in Pahlavi language and Zoroastrianism. The majority are handwritten notebooks and other manuscripts in which he did his work. These often have many inserts. There are also loose handwritten notes, some correspondence and some printed material.