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The Kingdoms of the Deccan - an incomplete manuscript with annotated heading Chapter XXII Part I, and "By H.G. Rawlinson". It has 110 numbered pages and has further inserted pages. Typed with handwritten annotations, undated.

"What Happened in India in 1857 by H.G. Rawlinson C.I.E., Author of India, a Short Cultural History, British Beginnings in India, etc." It has Rawlinson's address as London, so presumable written after his return to England. Article manuscript, typed with annotations, 11 pages + title page, undated.

The Papers of Hartwig Hirschfeld consists of the handwritten manuscript draft for his New Researches into the Composition and Exegesis of the Koran along with some supplementary notes in English and Arabic. The manuscript bears the stamp of the Bombay's Education Society's Press, Bycella, and is dated "Received 7 Mar 1902". The book was published by the Royal Asiatic Society, as Volume III of their Asiatic Monograph Series, in 1902.

With the manuscript draft and notes is a letter from Raphael Loewe to Mrs M. Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank her for agreeing to take the manuscript. He is working through Hirschfeld's papers (his great-uncle) and also enquires whether the Society would be interested in transcripts of Arabic manuscripts. This letter is typed and dated 17 May 1962.

The collection spans Henry Miers Elliot's career working for the Indian Civil Service from 1827 to 1853, and includes:

• Manuscripts mainly concerned with administration. These are in English and local Indian languages.
• Correspondence to Henry Miers Elliot
• Printed Material
• Visual Material, including copper-plate rubbings, agricultural drawings and a map of Baiswara.

Some of the material had previously been identified by Professor Simon Digby, Honorary Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society (1970-1984). The information provided by him has been kept with the Henry Miers Elliot Papers.

There are four bound manuscripts. There are also handwritten and printed loose notes, pages and letters concerned with the preparation of the material.

Bound volume compiled by various officers containing glossaries of revenue terms for the Indian districts of:

• Agra
• Allahabad
• Azamgarh (Azimghur)
• Betul (Baitool)
• Bijnor
• Delhi (Dehlee)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Etawah
• Fatehpur (Futtehpore)
• Ghazipur (Ghazeepoor)
• Gorakhpur (Goruekpoor)
• Hoshangabad (Hoshungabad)
• Jabalpur (Jubulpoor)
• Jaunpur (Jownpoor)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Kumaon
• Mathura (Muttra)
• Meerut
• Mirzapur
• Moradabad (south)
• Narsinghpur (Nursingpoor)
• Pilibhit (Pilibhut)
• Saharanpur (Suharanpoor)
• Shahjahanpur (Shahjihanpore)

These show the local dialect words for the terms required by the administrators.

Various notes, plans and rough glossaries for Elliot's 'A History of India', originally to be named 'A Complete History of Muhammadan India'. Attached at the end are English letters and newspaper clippings, as well as one sheet of notes in Devanagari script. Handwritten bound volume in English and local Indian dialects.

Handwritten definitions for Elliot's glossary, with terms translated from various local dialects into English. Handmade notebook without cover.

"Abstract statement showing the amount percentage on land cultivated for each species of crop". Handwritten table of the percentage of various crops cultivated on land in the districts of:

• Aligarh (Allyghur)
• Azamgarh (Azimghur)
• Bareilly (Barelly)
• Bulandshahr (Boolundshuhur)
• Gorakhpur (Goruakpoor)
• Meerut
• Saharanpur (Suharunpoor)

Four unbound manuscript pages for Elliot's 'A History of India', printed by the Oriental Lithographic Press, Calcutta:

• Appendices III A and III B: Diagrams depicting unknown, labelled items, probably hill towns, surrounded by notes in Arabic and one other, as yet undeciphered, script
  *. Item labelled 'No.VIII', probably an appendix: Diagrammatic map depicting a town and its buildings, numbered and labelled in Arabic.
• Item labelled 'No.XV - Number 1': Printed table and map for the 'Village of Mouza Sooltanpoor, Purgunuh of Noh Jheel, Zilla Muttra', labelled in English. The table shows a brief, surveyed description of the area, which includes the number of houses and wells, amount of land covered by buildings, the cost of various items, the general caste of inhabitants, and the depth of water