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Correspondence with Frederic J Mouat (1816–1897), a British surgeon. Two letters from Mouat to Hodgson dating to March 1873.

Letter from Frederic J. Mouat to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which Mouat writes that he received Hodgson's letter at midnight on his return from Wandsworth. He writes that he has become an Inspector for the Local Government Board for London and so will be busy all day and in the evening it is a meeting of the Statistical Society. Handwritten with embossed and printed letterhead, 3 sides, dated 18 March 1873.

Letter from Frederic J. Mouat to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which Mouat writes that he is sorry to have missed Hodgson. Mouat asks his opinion of the Paper for the Lords on Governance and Colonisation and Central Asia. He writes of Hodgson's long service in the region. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 31 March 1873. Also Accompanying envelope with Hodgson's annotations.

This series covers all the other correspondence with the Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson, It ranges in date from 1843 to 1880 and covers personal, political and research interests.

Hodgson used much of his time in both Nepal and Darjeeling in research, wanting to discover and understand about the architecture, languages, ethnography, religion, zoology and botany. He collected specimens and manuscripts, and had many drawings made, which he donated to many collections throughout Europe. He was also politically involved during his Residency in Nepal, and also later in England, when he continued to show an active interest in the Indian subcontinent, particularly regarding trade and vernacular education. These Personal Papers reflect these interests and are a record of much of his activity - Hodgson and his wives seemed to have a need to record all his successes. He was also a keen annotator of material, so that most of the printed material also bears his handwritten comments.