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Correspondence with British Library concerning Burmese place names. These are:

• Letter from Henry G to Raymond Head to say he will leave the Burmese place names with Patricia Herbert and to provide some Thai spellings. Handwritten, dated 21 December 1983.
• Letter from Patricia Herbert to Raymond Head to apologise for the delay in replying to him and to regret her inability to locate the place names. She asks him to correct one of his entries which attributes a manuscript to the British Museum and not the British Library. Typed, dated 1 March 1984.

These Papers were all produced in the compiling of the A Catalogue of the Paintings and Drawings in the Royal Asiatic Society, London. which was published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1991. The material includes a manuscript proof, correspondence connected to the artworks of the Society, correspondence and lists for compiling the index, and notes and articles which Head collected and collated during his research.