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Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Nominees for Council. Five members are asked to allow their names to go forward for election on 20 May and are also informed that they should be the auditors for the past year. (Found on page 188)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Secretary, Marylebone Free Library, to inform that the Council are willing to accede to their request for the Society's Transactions, Journals, etc. (Found on page 189)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Secretary, East India Company, to inform that the Royal Asiatic Society has a number of copies of a work on Oriental Architecture by 'a learned native of Madras' which the Council would like the Court to accept for their library and for distribution 'at the pleasure of the Court'. (Found on page 189)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to New Members of Council. Five Members are informed that they have been elected to Council. Attendance at meetings is required as 'often as may suit your convenience'. (Found on page 190)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Robert Thompson, Superintendent, Dublin Exhibition, regarding the fact that several images (Buddha, Durga, Vishnu, etc) were lent to the Dublin Exhibition of 1853 and have not been returned with other articles. They were clearly marked 'Royal Asiatic Society'. (Found on page 194)

Letter from H.H. Wilson, Director, to Sir William Molesworth, 1st Commissioner of Board of Palaces, Parks, etc.(Works) to request that Royal Asiatic Society may be allowed to 'share in any accommodation' which His Majesty's Government may be 'disposed to provide' to the literary and scientific societies of London. (Found on page 196)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to John Ebenezer Marks, High School, Birmingham, to remind that the annual subscription, 3 guineas, should be paid by end of year. (Marks subsequently became a missionary/teacher in Burma for 40 years.) (Found on page 198)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Dr Jolowiez to thank for his letters of 24 April and 4 May and apologise for the delay in replying as the Council was 'not meeting' . His request for help in publishing some documents cannot be agreed to as the Society does not have the funds. However the work, 'Polyglot of Oriental Poetry', was laid before a meeting, stamped, but then returned to sender when it had been remarked that if it had to be returned it would not have been stamped. Jolowiez had also sent copies of his lectures, 'The first Epistle of the Baruch' and 'On the Correction of the text of the Hebrew Scriptures', the first had been read in 1854 at a meeting of Syro-Egyptian Society. (Found on page 204)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Nominees for Council, to ask that their names be allowed to go forward for election at the Anniversary General Meeting to be held on 19 May and to be willing to serve as auditors for past year's accounts. (Found on page 206)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Rev. William Kearne to remind that he owes 6 guineas, as his resident member subscriptions for the current year and the previous one. (Found on page 208)