Letter from A.F. Rudolf Hoernle to Edward William West to thank him for sending a manuscript and to inform West that Hoernle has sent manuscripts to West. He continues to answer West's inquiries and asks for West's help in identification. Handwritten with accompanying envelope, dated 20 July 1899. There is also a copy of a letter from Hoernle pertaining to the forgery of a certain manuscript. Handwritten with further annotations, dated 23 July 1901. With these letters are handwritten notes enclosed with a cover entitled "Khotan MS. papers". Identified as West 57C in de Menasce handlist.

Dadestan-i-Denik (pp. 16 - 32), printed in script with English footnotes. Uncovered, bound with thread.

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink with one insert. Identified as West 22 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Dadistan I Denik 1880-1" Transliteration and translation.

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 27 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Dādistān i Mẽnōk i Xrat, transliteration and translation.

Dānāk-i-Mẽnōk-i-Xrat, printed in script with English footnotes. Sanskrit translation/Pazand - Pahlavi written in Avestan letters/Pahlavi. Uncovered, bound with thread. Handwritten on cover, "Dānāk-i-Mẽnōk-i-Xrat [E.W. West's copy]"

Proofs from Tehmuras Dinshaji Anklesaria's Dātistān-ī-Dīnīk - Pūrsishn I - XXXVII. Blue-green patterned soft cover, bound book with handwritten annotations and some handwritten inserts. On inside of the cover is written "Pahlavi text, The Datistan-i Dinik - partially corrected by E.W. West". The text was finally published by Anklesaria's son in 1910.

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, with multiple inserts. Identified as West 32 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: Denkart Bk. III continued from vol. 8 and completed to the end of Bk. III.

Inserts:

• Book Review of "The Dinkard, Vol VI." by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana, Print from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Jan 1882 pp. 170-2
• Translation of "Denkard (Acts of Religion), Book 3" by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana pp. 555 - 78
• Folios of transliteration and translation of "Dinkard Book III, last but one chapter - Pahlavi Text from the MS. B, written in 1659, and brought from Iran to Surat in 1783" note from EWW: "But from a copy supplied by Dastur D. Jamaspji , which I have been unable to collate with the original MS."
• Folio with translation of "Dk III, chap. 261 (Peshotan, ed. trans. vol vi. p.405) and "The three Lunar Periods in Avesta, OC"
• Folio with "Beginnings of Folios"
• "Great Western Railway Suburban Timeline" of December 1882
• scraps of paper with different translations and transliterations

Description: Green, blue and pink pattered hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 8 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Denkart Bk III continued to Chapter 372 (Sanjana = Madan p.354)
• Babylonian Chronology from George Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol. 3
• Kings of Assyria from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 2.
• Mythology of the Chaldeans from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 1.

Inserts:

• Explanation of the word "homast"
• folios with Pahlavi transliteration and its English translation, the passage identifying marks are written in the corner of each: pp.181-183 and pp. 238 & 56
• A blue folio with words meanings in Pahlavi and English, some of which have question marks next to them
• folio with list of words and page numbers they can be found on
• folio with passage DKa 313, 3
• folio with "Zand words in Din-Kard"
• folio with a few more words, mostly blank
• Gujarati newspaper article with the articles: "Pehlvi Inscriptions in South India," "Important Speech by Lord North Brook in the Delhi Durbar" from the newspaper "Rast Gopukar Tatha Satya Prakash"
• [unmailed/draft of a] letter to the editor of "The Academy" regarding the inclusion of Pahlavi texts
• Four Folios of description, praise, and introductions for "The Dinkard"
• loose folios that serve an index
• On the back of a Times of India "Saturday Afternoon Edition" announcement leaflet "Sections of Book III not quoted from Nike-i-Vehedas"

Description: Red-brown soft cover notebook, ruled pages, and handwritten in ink. Cover and several pages are loose. Multiple inserts. First page is stamped with a Bombay Education Society's Press mark, dated 6 August 1900. Identified as West 36 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "First Series of the Selections of Zad-Sparam" To C: Loose folios originating from book from pp. 1 - 20 contain Ch. I to IV, pp. 48 - 73 contain Ch. X - XVIII in the original Pahlavi and Transliterated. Loose folios with papers originating from different sources with the same text translated - pp. 29 - 47 [fol. no. 1 - 11] contain Ch. XII - XIX, fol. no. 11 -20 contain Ch. XX - XXIV.
Inserts: Scrap of paper with comparison of different Pahlavi scripts and scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose.
Note de Menasce description of this item appears to be inaccurate.

Description: Softcover green notebook with "EXERCISE BOOK" written on the cover, with ruled pages, handwritten in ink, multiple inserts. Identified as West 35 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: "Traditions of Zaratusht of Pahlavi MS by E.W. West" catalogued under No. CCXXVIII. with annotations that note missing folios; pp15 - 17: A short note on "Traditions of Zaratusht" and its importance for Zoroastrian Studies being an orignal MS. from Iran. Along with this there is also a note by de Mensace added in 5/4/1949 locating the MS and commenting on its current use.

Inserts:

• Folio with calculations of number of lines per page
• 8 folios titled "Memoranda of 52 Oriental Manuscripts, from Bombay, catalogued by Edward G. Browne Esquire of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and classified as follows:- 18 Zoroastrian MSS. 28 Persian MSS. 4 Arabic MSS. and 2 Hindustani MSS."
• Folio with "Sins worthy of death" [semi-translation] by E.W.W. on June 16th 1902
• folio with list of short summaries of events that take place from 266, 7 to 292,
• 11 scraps of paper with calculations pertaining to number folios, lines, etc.
• Folio with drafts of introduction remarking on his work of collation of the modern MSS with older MS
• Supplementary note similar to note on pp 15 - 17
• "Index to the folios of the Iranian Pahlavi Rivayat. Missing folios in red ink" and a "continuation [of notes] form page 4"