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Letter from Miss J.C. Lancaster, Deputy Librarian and Deputy Keeper of the Records, India Office Library, to Miss Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to say they would be happy to accept volumes of the Hog Hunters Annual missing from their collections and possibly those of the Meerut Tentpeggers' Club also.

This archive consists of correspondence, documentation, reports and allied material concerned with the conservation of the Collections of the Society. The Society has not kept comprehensive records throughout its history. Further information pertaining to the conservation of the collections may be found in the Minutes for the meetings of the Council and Library Committees. Conservation continues in the life of the Society. More recent records are held in the Society's records management system and will be transferred to the archive in due course.

Correspondence concerned with conservation of the Society's collections within this time period:

• Correspondence and instructions re cleaning marble using Sepiolite, 2 pieces, typed, dated 22 March 1968.
• Correspondence with British Museum regarding creating stands for sculptures, 8 pieces, handwritten and typed, dated 1 April 1969 - 13 October 1969.
• Correspondence with E. Panetta, V & A Museum concerning the restoration of a teak stool, 5 pieces, typed, dated 12 March 1969 - 15 April 1969.
• Correspondence with the India Office Library concerning the laminating of a manuscript, 1 piece, typed, dated 20 December 1973.
• Letter from Valery (Gibson), Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Dennis (Duncanson), President. to give a report on Mr Cox's opinion of the condition of the portrait of William Havell (RAS Cat.01.011) and of a further watercolour, unnamed, and whether to undertake their conservation. Handwritten, dated 26 January 1982.
• Correspondence with the Armouries, Tower of London concerning the restoration of a mail shirt, 12 pieces, handwritten and typed, dated 24 September 1975 - 22 August 1983.
• Correspondence concerning the conservation of James Wales' painting of Madhu Rao Narayan, the Maratha Peshwa (RAS Head Cat. 01.014), 5 pieces, handwritten and typed, dated 25 August 1982 - 14 December 1982.
• Correspondence concerning insurance for the portraits of Jamsetjee Boman Jee and Nowrojee Jamset jee and the painting of the Judicial enquiry at Canton while they were undergoing conservation, typed, 2 pieces, dated 17 January 1983 - 7 February 1983.
• Letter from A.D.H. Bivar to Dennis Duncanson concerning the storage of collections in a basement room, 1 piece, typed, dated 16 June 1983.
• Copy of a letter from Godfrey Goodwin to 'Neale; to express his appreciation for the quality of the conservation of two watercolour paintings, 1 piece, handwritten, dated 10 July 1989.