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Four letters to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids, Secretary and Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning rent and rates of 22 Albemarle Street. Three letters are from Charles Asprey, the fourth from F.F. Arbuthnot.

Correspondence sent by Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot relating to his work with the Fund and about his death in 1901.

Letter from Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot to T.W. Rhys Davids in which he writes that due to poor health he must give up the management of the Oriental Translation Fund. He hopes the Council of the Society will take it over as a going concern. If the Council agrees to this he will present to them all his own volumes. He then details the progress of several publications.

Letter from F.F. Arbuthnot, written on Royal Asiatic Society headed notepaper, to confirm that he will donate all of his books and his writing table which are currently in the Society's rooms to the Society in the event of his death. He will also donate the material associated with the Oriental Translation Fund currently housed at Park Street. He also writes that the Council of the Society would be free to deal with them as they see fit.

Letter from F.F. Arbuthnot, written on Royal Asiatic Society headed notepaper, to confirm that he will donate all the volumes of the Oriental translation Fund New Series including all the unbound volumes held at the printers, upon his death, with the hope they will be of benefit to the Society.

Letter from F.F. Arbuthnot to Miss Hughes, RAS Secretary, to send some things he found in his papers. He also asks for various items in connection with his work with the Oriental Translation Fund to be sent by book post to his home.

Letter from F.F. Arbuthnot to T.W. Rhys Davids, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask him to lay before the Council the document enclosed concerning the abandoning of the revising of the Oriental Translation Fund via donation and subscription. He states his proposal for the Fund and attaches the Memorandum to be presented to the Council.

Letter from F.F. Arbuthnot to T.W. Rhys Davids concerning publications being undertaken for the Oriental Translation Fund. This letter is undated.

Postcard from F.F. Arbuthnot to T.W. Rhys Davids, sent from Marseille, to give his address for Rhys Davids to send information about a Persian text and Chinese translation.

The Royal Asiatic Society leased the premises at 22 Albemarle Street from 1869-1919. These papers contain official lease documents, correspondence regarding the property and possible alternatives, and a more recent photograph.