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Retranslating the Translation by Angus Graham. Photocopies, typescript and handwritten original poems and their multiple translations produced by 8 students during a seminar led by Angus Graham in the autumn of 1972. With the poems is a description of the exercise and the student list.

Descriptions, plans and drawings relating to the excavations in Cave No. 13. These were published in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10th October 1861. Included are:

• A draft descriptive paper.
• Plan of Cave 1.3 Drawings of stone pots.
• Drawings of copper coins and sundry found in the stone pots.
• Drawings of clay receptacle containing seal.
• Further drawings of clay receptacles.
• Drawings of 16 fragments.
• Drawings of 9 seals.
• Drawings of 12 seals.
• Lithographs of seals.
• Further drawings of seals.
• Sundry notes.
• Letter from Arthur Anderson West to Edward West, 25 August 1861, checking the date of the find Tracing of the plan of Cave 13.

"Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology and Archaeology in connection with the Origin of Culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian Families by Hyde Clarke" Printed Pamphlet published by N Trübner & Co., London. Hodgson has inscribed his own title and date of reception on the front cover but has not annotated the material. Soft bound pamphlet, 74 pages, dated 1875.

'Research Student: Work Approval' - note From Edward G. Browne to inform that the Degree Committee of the Special Board for Oriental Studies had decided that the work of Kamal'd-Din Ahmad was of merit as original research.

Rasearch notes on Indian towns and religions which Ingham has gathered.

An A4 folder labelled 'Enki and S. Arabia' plus loose notes on topics of interest to Ingham including dervishes, Enki, family, Chinese horoscopes and Gilgamesh.

Research Notes and related correspondence concerning Ingham's interest in India.

Storey made many notes in his lifetime of research. Some have been catalogued within the Persian Literature Volumes. This series contains those that have not been assigned to any of the individual volumes.
These are:

• Bibliographical research notes - handwritten notes similar to the volume entries. Some have indications that they may have been used in the volumes but they have not been specifically ordered as volume entries.
• Notebook without cover with notes in Arabic from the 'Home Services Miscellany' - this notebook has suffered from water damage.
• Notes on periodicals - handwritten.
• 'Arabic lexicographical notes' - handwritten, title according to label within original file.
• 'Lexicographical notes - Persian I' - handwritten, title according to label within original file.
• Research notes in Arabic and English notes on manuscript pages, annotations and miniatures, handwritten.
• Research notes on 'Philologika' by Von Hellmut Ritter and other publications concerning Ansani, The Suhrawardiyya, 'Ain al-qudat, Kubra, and Najm al-Din Dajah, handwritten.
• Lists for the contents of MSS Eur. A.11; Persian manuscript titles, listed by size; Contents of the Persian Delhi Manuscripts, Volume III; A handlist of Arabic Printed Works divided by size; and 'Additions'. These are all typed lists. It is unknown which institution's lists from where these have been taken.
• A large bound notebook containing notes on Course in Bengal Madrassas; Courses at Panjab University; Prospectus of Studies and Examinations for the indigenous Arabic Schools of the United Provinces, 1911; Books Studied in al_Jami al-Azhan; Courses at Deoband. Also within this book are pressed flowers many of which are labelled. Several of these have also come loose and have been placed with a separate folder for safekeeping with loose labels. Inserted within the front cover are some handwritten notes, a copy of a letter from Professor Browne on Persian research, a news cutting - 'Baronet in the Dock: Extraordinary Allegations' and a sheet of a Persian newspaper.
• Large exercise book with covers missing containing notes in Arabic and English on Arabic texts. Inserted within the book are 2 printed sheets advertising a Seminar for the Comparative Study of Religions at the College, Baroda.
• Small bound exercise book with the title 'Rough Index to PL (Persian Literature)' with the annotation 'Get a large notebook for use as index'. This index is arranged alphabetically. Inserted into the notebook is a single sheet headed 'Proverbs not Indexed'. Index is in English but this list in Arabic script.
• Two pocket notebooks, one with a red cover and one unbound containing mixed research notes in Arabic and English.
• Shelf Lists of the Storey Collections of Printed Books and Persian Manuscripts - typed lists.
• Manuscript location/Index lists for catalogues - these probably belong to a volume of Persian Literature but it was not possible to identify them, handwritten.
• Seven pieces of miscellaneous notes, typed and handwritten.

Two items:

• "The Library [and Museum] of the Royal Asiatic Society" - research notes concerning acquisition of items and care of the collections in the time period 1824-1831. 14 typed sheets, 2 handwritten sheets, undated.
• "The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 10, 1841: The Royal Asiatic Society's Museum. Computer printed document of an article available on the internet, 6 pages.

Two sheets of research notes in a modern hand and written in biro. The first bears notes on the Letter Book, giving page numbers of some of the salient details. The second has some biographical notes for Turner Macan. The author of these, and when they were written, is unknown.