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Papers of Sir John Oliver Wardop, 1894,1931, comprising:
Notebook entitled "Shamanism" containing translation into English of second part of "Shamastvo" by V M Mikhailovskii in "Izvestiia obshchesvovnaniia, antropologii i etnografii", vol 12, Moscow, 1892), entitled "Shamanism in Siberia and European Russia"; letter (1931) to Wardrop from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education; 2 pictures of the Patriarch Tikhon.

Biblical manuscript relating story of the Passion and also including apocryphal material regarding the fate of people involved, c 1800.

Illustrated report on the work of the Russkoe Studencheskoe Khristianskoe Dvizhenie za Rubezhom [Russian Student Christian Movement outside Russia] in the Baltic States 1929-1930, with a memoranda on the work of the Movement in Europe and another on its work in France, October and Novemember 1930. The report comprises 14 pages of photographs of meetings in Latvia and Estonia, with detailed explanations in English. A letter from A Nikitin, from the office of the Movement in Paris, to Major W Tudor Pole, London, dated 7 March 1931, is enclosed with the report and explains that Nikitin was author of the memoranda. He suggested that the report be shown to Sir Bernard Pares and then returned to Paris, the latter request was clearly not compiled with.