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Notes on moral actions and codes. A Harley exercise book with red cover.

Notes on Manning's life, the donation of the books to the RAS and the process of identifying which in the RAS Collection originally belonged to Manning. Handwritten, 2 pieces, 5 sides

Notes on Manning's failed attempt to reach Peking by becoming European Physician and assistant Astronomer to the Emperor. Handwritten notes, 1 piece, 2 sides

Collection of manuscripts on the language Manipuri by William Pettigrew, Yumjao Singh and Mrs Ethel A Pettigrew. A letter from Roland B Dixon (1875-1934) an American cultural anthropologist, the letter mentions work of William Pettigrew and a copy of Rules and Regulations of The Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Notes on language and philosophising on the East-West border.

Notes and drawings on the Juna Mawli Mountain taken from E.W. West's notebook and copied by A.W. West.

Mixed notes on Japanese works about Taoism and Buddhism. Written in Japanese.

Notes on various Italian towns made by Ingham.

Description: Blue soft cover notebook with ruled pages, hand written in ink. Fragile. Several inserts. Identified as West 39 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Iranian Onomastics; list of Parsi men's and women's names and surnames; a short note on West's methods of approximating dates for certain names he has identified.

Inserts:

• Kolophon of Wilson MS. N. 5 [. . .] in Pazand
• scrap of paper with more names and dates
• A very short part by part summary of Varstamansan
• Print book review Iranisches Namenbuch by Justi F. (1895) reviewed by Paul Horn 1896
• "Note on the era of the Parsis" by E.W. West ("Original English Text of a French Article in Le Museon, Vol V (1886) pp131 -2 published at Louvain in Belgium")
• folio with "Colophons written in Persia"
• folio with "K43 Colophons"

These are handwritten, referenced notes taken from Foreign Office records concerning the Azerbaijan Crisis. There are also photocopies of several Foreign Office Records:

• Copies of letters from F.T. Gousev to Anthony Eden and from Anthony Eden to Sobolev, 20 January 1945
• Memorandum and Summary of Memorandum on Persian, 4 August 1945
• Letter from Foreign office to Tehran, 21 August 1945
• Resume of the Note Forwarded by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, 17 November 1945
• Note Despatched by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy, Teheran, 22 November 1945
• Note Forwarded by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy, Teheran, 23 November 1945
• Note Forwarded by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy, Teheran, 23 November 1945
• Note from the Soviet Embassy in Teheran to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 26 November 1945
• Letter from Archibald Clark Kerr, British Embassy, Moscow to V.N. Molotov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Moscow, 26 November 1945
• Telegram from Archibald Clark Kerr to V.N. Molotov, 26 November 1945

The title for this material comes from the original file in which it was housed.