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Two articles and accompanying material sent by Thomas Hervey Baber to the Royal Asiatic Society. These are:

• 'Facsimiles of three Muhammedan Gold Coins, found on the Coast of Malabar' with associated material.
• 'Copy of a Translation in the Malayalam Arayam Character with an English translation.'

'Facsimiles of three Muhammedan Gold Coins, found on the Coast of Malabar with some remarks upon them'. The three coins described were thrown up during a heavy gale on the beach at the mouth of the Balliaputtan river, five miles from Cananow on the Coast of Malabar in 1818. One of them is dated AH301 and appears to have been struck at the mint of Constantine near Cordova, the Capital of a province of the same name in Andalusia, under the reign of Abdurrahman the third. The other two are dated AH407 and bear the name of Abd ul Hussein Ali. The coins were presented to the Madras Literary Society by Thomas Hervey Baber. There are a number of papers with the facsimiles. These are:

• Letter from Thomas Hervey Baber to Mr Anderson, Acting Secretary of the Madras Literary Society, dated 25 November 1818.
• A list of the Moorish Kings of Andalusia.
• A list of Khalifs. An extract from the Arabic Dictionary entitled 'Kamood'.
• Facsimiles of the coins.
• A letter from J. Stokes containing remarks on the coins.
• Facsimiles of the coins with Malayalam translations of the inscriptions.
• A letter from Mr Anderson acknowledging receipt of the coins.

All these items and their descriptions are listed in the handwritten Catalogue of English Manuscripts in the Royal Asiatic Society. However there is also further material within the file:

• Facsimiles of the coins with English translations of the inscriptions
• A list of the names of the Princes of the Dynasty of a Fatimites
• Original label identifying their listing in the Catalogue of English Manuscripts.

Copy of a Translation in the Malayalam Arayam Character with an English translation undertaken by Thomas Hervey Baber, of an extract in the Malayalam Arabi character from a manuscript in the 'possession of Ali Raja Beebee (Bibi) of Cananoor, (Kannur,) a principality on the Malabar Coast, 10 Miles North of Tellicherry'. The manuscript was believed to trace the origin of the Bibi's family. With the introductory statement are both the English and the Malayalam translations.

There is a single item in these Papers. This is the "Abstracts of Meteorological Diary for the Years 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819. Taken Eight Miles North-East of Fort William Calcutta". This a handwritten journal of daily weather conditions divided into monthly pages giving a general monthly summary, variations of the winds, thermometer, barometer and hygrometer readings, prevailing wind directions and remarks concerning the days' weather patterns. The manuscript is on foolscap sheets bound into a hardcover journal. The book is in fragile conditions, its boards have become separated and some of the pages are only loosely attached into the whole. Within the book is a loose sheet of paper on which wind calculations have been written.

These papers consist of two items presented to the Society by Thomas Pell Platt. They are:

• Fasti Sacri Ecclesiae AEthiopicae
• Computus Temporum Ecclesiae Aethiopicae

Fasti Sacri Ecclesiae AEthiopicae - concerning sacred feasts in Ethiopia. Written in Amharic script with Latin title and note "Codice MS. to F. collato cum codice C."

Computus Temporum Ecclesiae Aethiopicae - concerning the calculation of Ethiopian ecclesiastical dates. Handwritten in Amharic script with Latin title and additional note, "Codice MS. to D. collato cum codicibus C. & F."

The papers contain correspondence with Michael Willis, article written by Phelps and others; and other correspondence. These are all concerning excavations in Northern India particularly around relics concerned with the origins of Buddha.

Between 1995 and 2003 Terence Phelps corresponded with Michael Willis, British Museum, concerning his research. This series contains letters predominantly sent by Phelps to Willis. With many of the letters are enclosures of articles or extracts which accompanied Phelps' correspondence.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 17 March 1995, in which Phelps asks whether the British Museum might like reference documents from the Indian archives concerning Alois Fuhrer's activities with U Ma, a Burmese monk.