Subseries QW/6/4 - Correspondence regarding photographs and replica of a Siamese lion

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Correspondence sent from Mr J. de la Valette to Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales regarding photographs and replica of a Siamese lion. These are:

• Letter from Mr John de la Valette to Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales to send him 20 photographs of a Siamese lion, which he would also send by separate post. These had been given him by the then Siamese minister but the India Society did not seem to want to act upon them. He was therefore sending them to Quaritch Wales with the accompanying correspondence concerning them. Typed, dated 27 June 1936.
• Letter from Phra Bahiddha Mukara, Secretary of the Siamese Legation, to Mr John de la Valette to send him a list of the photographs of articles found at Nagor Patham, and to give a rough translation of the letter received from the Royal Institute concerning the black marble lion. He also sends a translation of the description of Nagor Pathom. Typed, dated 12 September 1932. The lists and description of Nagor Patham are with the letter.
• Letter from John de la Valette to Mr Wilkinson concerning the photographs of Nagor Pathom monastery in Siam and a replica of a stone lion. He is sending the photographs, descriptions and replica with his letter. Typed, dated 23 September 1932.
• Letter from John de la Valette to Dr Barnett, British Museum, to ask his opinion of the enclosed photographs. Handwritten, dated 4 October 1932.
• Handwritten note to suggest that the object is a clothes weight, either Chinese or of Chinese influence, from Bramholtz of the British Museum.
• Letter from Dr. L.D. Barnett, British Museum, to John de la Valette to thank him for showing the photographs and to give some information regarding the inscriptions. Typed, dated 10 October 1932.

• English