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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/1-RAS LEC4/1/2
Title
Correspondence
Date(s)
- 1823 - 1899 (Creation)
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2 items handwritten and photocopy
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Correspondence concerning General Meetings. These are:
- Photocopy of a letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Phillipp Franz von Siebold to invite him to be present at the Meeting of the Society on 15 June 1850, handwritten, 2 pieces, dated 14 June 1850. The original of this letter is held at the Brandenstein Archive, Schlüchtern-Elm, Germany. Accompanying the letter are computer-printed transcripts in English and French of a letter from Phillipp Franz von Siebold to the Admiralty in London, dated 17 June 1850.
- Letter from James Whatman Bosanquet to Edwin Norris concerning whether Mr Dunbar should come from the Isle of Wight to deliver his paper, 2 sides, dated 30 March 1858.
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- English
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- Norris Edwin 1795-1872 (Subject)
- Bosanquet James Whatman 1804-1877 (Subject)