Letter from Raymond Head to Ralph Pinder Wilson to state that he had just finished correcting the proofs and compiling an index for the catalogue. He insists on the necessity for a catalogue and includes his expenses. With the letter is a catalogue list of 16 pages.
Head Raymond b 1948Art--History
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Letter from R McDonald, Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts and Records, The National Library of Wales, to Raymond Head to say that his letter addressed to the University College of Wales Library had been passed to them but there is no reference to correspondence of Charles Joseph Doyle or deposit of Sir John Doyle within their indexes. Dated 16 July 1981.
Also a letter from T.J.B. Dawkes, Reader Adviser, University College, Cardiff, to state there is no correspondence belonging to Charles Joseph Doyle at their library but they had sent the letter to the National Museum of Wales. Dated 31 July 1981.
Letter from John Nicoll, Yale University Press, to Raymond Head to inform him that the Press would be unable to publish the catalogue. With the letter is a 2 page proposal for the Catalogue.
Yale university pressLetter from John Nankivell to Raymond Head to try to provide some potential sources for provenance of his two drawings in the Society's collections
Nankivell JohnLetter from John Bastin to Raymond Head to send a copy of some of the proof sheets from his book, "Nineteenth Century Prints and Illustrated Books of Indonesia ". The copies are with the letter which is undated.
Bastin John b 1927Letter from J G Parker, Research Assistant, The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, to Raymond Head to inform which institutions hold papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson.
The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts LondonLetter from J F Ford to Raymond Head to thank him for sending a copy of the portrait of Jahangir. He sends details of where Head can find information that will help him and to give details of the Chinese writing on the picture and other information that might help.
Ford J.F.Letter from Geoff Salter, Hampshire County Library, to Raymond Head to enclose information regarding the pictures and articles that were in the house of George Staunton, Leigh Park House, Hampshire, in 1836. He asks whether any in the list match those in the Royal Asiatic Society's Collections. A photocopy of the list is with the letter. The list bears some handwritten annotations of items that are or were in the Society's Collections.
Hampshire County LibraryLetter from Elizabeth A Powis, Assistant Librarian, The Royal Institution, to Raymond Head to send information regarding the Egyptian mummy, belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society which was unrolled at the Royal Institute. She enclose a copy of the illustrations from the book "An Address on Embalming Generally, delivered at the Royal Institution on the Unrolling of a Mummy" by John Davidson. These illustrations are with the letter. She writes that she is also enclosing a copy of the Managers' Minutes concerning the lecture. This is not with the letter.
Royal Institution of Great BritainLetter from Dr J.E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw, Universiteit van Amsterdam, to Raymond Head, to thank him for his letter and xeroxes that he sent. She has been invited by the Government of Indonesia as a guest at the opening of Borobudur so will take the copies and hope to identify some of them on the spot. She will also take photos to contrast the present condition with the past drawings.
Leeuw J. E. van Lohuizen-De 1919-1983