Descriptions, plans and drawings from the Kura caves in the Konkan.
West Edward William 1824-1905Description: Loose folios handwritten in ink. Plus an offprint in soft cover. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- "Kura Inscriptions"
- Ellora Inscriptions
- "Note: On a Pehlevi Inscription in the Dublin Museum" by L.C. Casartelli, handwritten on cover, "Congrès de Paris 1897"
- "Shailanwadi Inscription Dec. 15th 1864"
- "Junir Inscriptions"
- "Inscriptions from the Chamber on the Nana Ghant Scale 1/20/ On the left, or eastern, sidewall of the chamber"
- "Cave of B[h]idsa"
- "Nasik cave inscriptions"
- "Ajunta"
"A song of the Kabír panthís – recorded by TuláRám, First Asstt teacher of the Town School. Mirhákhur Dt Agrá, from the lips of Chiramnjíwa Lál of the same village": Kyá karún málá aur tasbí, man málá huá merá ré… With translation: What have I have to do with Hindu of Muhammadam rosaries… Unsigned but in Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 4 sides, undated.
Special pull out section about Mongolia from Paris Match, 5 September 1964.
Label - handwritten for the material concerned: Route Sikkim-Gyantse, Tibetan 'dictionary', Tibetan stories by FM, and Miscellaneous photos.
Label in Hodgson's hand "Ganapat Sakai late troubles at Cathmandu recd, ansd Nov 1 1846" with further note regarding Ganapat. Handwritten, 1 side, dated 1 November 1846.
Hodgson Brian Houghton 1800-1894 OrientalistA label, dated 26 May 1906, signed by J. Burgess, Edinburgh, with the instruction, "Kanheri drawings to be returned without delay".
Burgess James 1832-1916Label with the words "Letters of Capt. Newbold from April 1842 to September 1848" written on it. Used as a sleeve to keep all the letters together.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandTwo labels and original containing envelope. These give provenance information concerning the material.
These are notes in a later hand when a family member must have intended to organise the correspondence.
Note "Family Letters of T.M. from Switzerland". On reverse is address "Thomas Manning Esq., at Mr Charles Lloyd, Penrith" and from "Mr Robinson" Note "Family Letters of T M from Cambridge &c". Note "Family Letters of T M from France" Note "Family Letters of T M while in the East
All handwritten, single piece