Documento RAS SESQ/10/5 - Exhibition at Ashmolean Museum

7 items typed and handwritten

Correspondence concerning an exhibition in the Print Room of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. These are:

• Letter from Jim Harle to John to suggest the idea of having an exhibition in Oxford as part of the sesquicentenary celebrations, dated 2 October 1970.
• Letter from B.W. Robinson, President of Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr James Harle, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, to ask whether an exhibition might be possible at the Ashmolean Museum, dated 20 November 1972.
• Letter from Dr James Harle, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, to B.W. Robinson, President of Royal Asiatic Society, to give his ideas for an exhibition at the Ashmolean and that he would begin planning, dated 28 November 1972.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr James Harle, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, to ask for firm dates for the exhibition, dated 1 March 1973.
• Letter from Dr James Harle, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform her that the exhibition will run through May 1973 and will be held in the Print Room with material mainly from the Bodleian Library, dated 7 March 1973.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr James Harle, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, to thank him for the details concerning the exhibition and to ask that requests for any loans of material to be sent for the next Council meeting, dated 12 March 1973.
• Letter from Simon Digby to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform her of the material he will be collecting from the Royal Asiatic Society to take to the Ashmolean Museum, dated 27 April 1973.

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