"List of Inscriptions from Northern India sent to Dr. Jas. Burgess, C.I.G., Edinburgh Scotland". An alphabetical list of inscriptions dated to November 1886. A different hand notes that these were sent through "Messrs. Grindlay [Gr ] & Co" and shipped aboard the SS Thames on 13th Feb 1892. Several of the pages bear the stamp of James Burgess. L.L.D., Archaeological Survey.

A journal containing detailed lists of compass bearings from various locations in India. The journal is untitled and bears no name of its author. It measures 35cm by 24cm with a brown cardboard cover which has become detached from the pages.

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.

Twenty-six items of correspondence plus a further label. The majority of the correspondence is from Thomas Newbold to Richard Clarke. There is a single letter from Newbold to George Thomas Staunton; and a single letter from Richard Wood to Newbold.

Letter from Captain Thomas John Newbold to Richard Clarke, Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7 of his "Mineral Resources of India". He asks if Clarke will read and proof them for grammar and punctuation. He hopes they may be published to give a better idea of the geophysical position. Newbold comments about the ordering of the papers. In a postscript he adds that he has retained number 7.

Letter from Captain Thomas John Newbold to Richard Clarke, Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose number 7 of his "Mineral Resources of India". He writes that the bulk of the Paper has already been read before the Royal Asiatic Society but not published. He asks that Clarke will proof the Paper. He also sends a manuscript concerning the "mundane system of the Farsis". He writes that Mr Norris had sent 3 copies of one of Newbold's Papers that had recently been published but that he will require about 10 further copies and asks if Clarke will send copies with the Author's respects to the Foreign Societies, a list of which he has left with Mr Reid. He will also require 50 copies of his Mineral Resources and asks Clarke to manage this for him.

"The Bhuga of Mahanundi" A Paper sent by Newbold to the Royal Asiatic Society on thermal springs in South India. He gives their location and a detailed description. A note at the head of the paper in pencil reads "Read Jan 14th 1843". With the Paper is also a label, "Thermal Springs of Mahamandi by Capt Newbold, Read 14 January 1843".

"The Thermal Springs of Calna... S India by Capt Newbold F.R.S." in which Newbold writes of further discoveries of thermal springs other than those at Mahanundi (see TJN/2/1). A note states, "Recorded 16 June 1849".

"The Indo-Mahomedan Ephemeris of Alpoor, S. India, Lat. 15° 54'N. Long. 78° 12'E by Capt. Newbold". A paper presented at the Royal Asiatic Society on 7 March 1846 concerning a Persian taqwim for the town of Alpoor, written by Sayyid Ibrahīm 'urf Bare Miyān. With the paper is the taqwim and a letter from Sayyid Ibrahīm 'urf Bare Miyān to Newbold. The taqwim is dated A.H. 1200 (AD 1785/6).

This fonds contains the personal papers of William Pettigrew, including research notes connected with the Manipuri language and other local dialects, examination papers, as well as correspondence primarily relating to a monograph on archaic Manipuri on which he collaborated with Yumjao Singh.