Certificate and accompanying letter signed by Charles Athanase Walckenaer from the Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres to certify that Hodgson had been made a Corresponding Member of the Academy. Printed and handwritten material in French, 2 sides, dated 27 December 1850.

Letter from Institut de France to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his gifts to the Society. Handwritten in French with printed letterhead, dated 13 August 1858.

Letter from Institut de France to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for the two parcels which had arrived at the L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belle-lettres, and concerning a catalogue. Handwritten in French with printed letterhead, 2 sides, dated 26 October 1858.

Letter from Institut de France to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his archives of the Government of Bengal concerning the colonisation, commerce, and physical geography. Printed letter with handwritten insertions in French, 1 side, dated 18 March 1858.

Letter from Franz Anton Schiefner to Brian Houghton Hodgson to say that he is researching the material Hodgson donated to the Institut de France in memory of Eugene Burnouf. Handwritten in German, dated 2 August, 1860. Accompanying envelope is on opposing page.

Letter from Institut de France to Brian Houghton Hodgson to inform Hodgson that his gift to the institute in 1857 has been beneficial to research and how highly it is esteemed. Handwritten in French with printed letterhead, 2 sides, dated 15 April 1864.

Letter from Léon Feer, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to acknowledge the sending of copies of the pamphlet containing a detailed account of Hodgson's official and other services. He praises Hodgson's contributions in the field of scientific knowledge; and gives information about the deposit of the pamphlet in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Buddhist manuscripts sent earlier by Hodgson, now in the library of the Société Asiatique, Paris. Hodgson's title note with date of receipt is on the accompanying envelope. Letter, handwritten in French, 3 sides, dated 4 December 1883.

The Programme for the Tenth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies held at the Palais de l'UNESCO, Paris from 23-26 August 1988, along with some abstracts and papers from the Conference. Some of these exist as individual items, others have been stapled together to create books of abstracts.

Programme for the "Xème Conference Internationale des Etudes Ethiopiennes" held at the Palais de l'UNESCO, Paris, from 23-26 August 1988. The programme lists the organising Committee, the daily itinerary, and the speakers and the titles of their papers at each of the sessions. There are some handwritten annotations.

Book of Abstracts from Papers Given at the Conference. These are:

• "Two Fragments of Ethiopian Church History" by Abba Ayelé Teklehaymanot
• "The cannibalist discourse in Me'en society, Southwest Ethiopia" by J. Abbink
• "The Dilemma of Arssi Balabbats: A Critical Study of Socio-economic position of Local Chiefs, 1836-1974" by Abas Haji
• "A Preview of Ethiopian Customary Law: The Application, Codification and Unity in Diversity" by Aberra Jembere
• "Anglo-Italian Conflicting Interests in The Lake Tana Region 1913-1935" by Abdussamad H. Ahmad
• "Sheko Phonology and Morphophonemics" by Aklilu Yilma
• "The Use of Food Aid and its Implications for Agricultural Production in Ethiopia" by Alemayehu Lirenso
• "Morphological features of two Oromo dialects: Harer and Wellaga" by Mohammed Ali
• "Compensating for the natural ecosystem: intensified agriculture (Southwest Ethiopia)" by Hermann Amborn
• "Axoum du Premier au Troisième Siècle: Les témoignages matérials" by Francis Anfray
• "Quelques Remarques sur la Morphologie du Verbe en Amharique" by Jean-Pierre Angoujard
• "Agricultural Price Policy in Ethiopia" by A. Aseffa
• "Regional Variation in Fertility, Mortality and Population Growth in Ethiopia 1970-81" by Asmerom Kidane
• "A Social Profile of Gondar Town in the Early twentieth Century" by Bahru Zewde
• "The Critical Edition of the Ethiopic Senodos: Some preliminary remarks" by Alessandro Bausi
• "Focus in Oromo" by Baye Yimam
• "Un procès en recherche de paternité" by Berhanou Abbebé
• "La système verbal de l'amharique" by Fernand Bentolila and Frew Shimelis
• "Coalition Politics and the Royal Office in Mid-18th Century Gondar" by LaVerle Berry
• "Problems in Axumite chronology" by Francois de Blois
• "Across the Great Divide: Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations in the Afar Rift and Adjacent Highlands of Ethiopia" by Steven A. Brandt
• "Agrarian Development Policy and Foreign Aid: The Ethiopian Experience" by Dr Stefan Brüne
• "L'énigme de la 75° Nationalité" by J. Bureau
• "Le Kebra Nagast et les Révélations du Pseudo-Méthode" by André Caquot
• "Les Industries Paleolithiques du Lac Langano Premier Aperçu Stratigraphique et Typologique" by Jean Chavaillon, Kassaye Begaschaw, Arlette Berthelet, Tamrat Wodajo and Zelalem Assefa
• "Groupes Patrilineaires et Territoriaux Chez Les °Afar" by Eduoard Chedeville
• "Les Trois Hebreux dans la Fournaise: Une enquete iconographique dans la peinture éthiopienne" by S. Chojnacki
• "Un ancien ensemble religieux islamique à Massaoua: la mosquée de Sayh Hammali" by Frederico Cresti
• "Political measures Taken by the Ethiopian Revolution to Resolve the Conflict in Eritrea" by Daniel Ghebrekidan
• "The Lands of the Church of Däbrä S'ähay Qʷesqʷam, Gondar" by Donald Crummey and Saumet Sishague
• "Rural Women and Household Labour Use Patterns in Ethiopia: A Review of Some Evidences" by Dejene Aredo
• "Addis-Abbaba master Plant 1983-1985: A Labour Demand Allocation Model for the Central Planning Region" by Francesco Gosen and Domenico Patassini
• "The History and Problems of Bridges in Ethiopia" by Dellelegne Teshome
• "Cases before the Emperors" by Franz Amadeus Dombrowski
• "The Jews of Ethiopia: Extinction or Rejuvenation?" by Jack Yair Edelstein
• "Ethiopia, Egypt and the Mahdiyya - Survialism in facing the West" by Professor Haggai Erlich