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"The Royal Asiatic Society: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Anniversary Meeting of the Society held on the 31st May 1875" which contains information regarding the Archaeological Survey of India, Buddhism and Buddhist literature. This section has been annotated by Hodgson. Printed pamphlet, 1 item, dated 1875.

"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: October 1875" in which is the article "Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hodgson Collection)" by Professors E.B. Cowell and J. Eggeling. A catalogue of 79 manuscripts and some illustrative plates. Printed journal with some annotations, 1 item, dated October 1875.

Correspondence, insurance quotes, and indemnity certificates concerning the permanent loan of material to the British Museum. This material consists of:

• The commemorative inscription of the Ananta-Vasudeva temple at Bhuvanesvar, dated 1278 A.D.
• Three Ujjain copper-plate grants of the rulers of Malwa
• The Taxila Plate of Patika.
• Other stone inscriptions

These items were already at the British Museum before the first letter dated 6 June 1967 and have remained there. The correspondence includes some to confirm that the material is still with the British Museum. Much of the correspondence are photocopies of original letters. 67 items.

Correspondence and notes re potential disposal of some of the Library - correspondence between members of Council, the Honorary Librarian and others about reducing the book stock by disposing of items either not in line with the Collections remit or incomplete sets of journals and newspapers. Consists of printed emails, handwritten notes and a list of potential periodicals for disposal. Includes seven electronic documents: 01-03 were originally created in 2004; 04 in 2005; 05 in 2008 ; 06-07 in 2010 and all were converted into archival documents in 2018.

Correspondence regarding the potential donation to the Royal Asiatic Society by Mr David Pickup of photograph albums of Iraq in 1929-1930 and the decision to transfer them to the British Library. This includes the transfer document and formal acknowledgement letter from the British Library. 8 items

Letters of Acknowledgement of receipt of five volumes of Myanma Sway-Son Kyan and 50 volumes of the Bulletin of the National Library of Peiping given to the Library at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Two items.

Acknowledgement slip for the disposal of some volumes of the Numismatic Chronicle to the British Museum. One item.

Letter from W.R. Livingstone, Montego Bay, Jamaica, to send a contribution to the Fund. Livingstone mentions that he has seen where Burton lived at Trieste, and served as missionary in the Bombay Diocese which Burton had visited. "Imagination has taken me to Mecca, whither pluck and skill carried him 32 years ago." He signs his letter "Hadgi W.R. Livingstone". He also includes a printed satirical poem "Farewell to Sir Leslie Probyn" about an unpopular British Governor of Jamaica at the time.

Letter from Mr Edward Likeman, Hon. Secretary of the Reading Literary and Scientific Society, to invite Campbell-Thompson, or another member of the Royal Asiatic Society, to lecture at the RLSS on the subject of Richard Burton.

Three newspaper cuttings concerned with Bertram Thomas' journey across Rub' al Khali.