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Correspondence concerning American Contributions. These fall into three areas:

• Correspondence concerning funding from the Rockefeller Foundation including correspondence between B.W. Robinson, President of Royal Asiatic Society, and C.H. Philips, Director of SOAS; correspondence by John Hansman; and correspondence from the Rockefeller Foundation; 8 items.
• Correspondence mainly with Professor R. Bayly Winder concerning American contributions to the Sesquicentenary Appeal, 38 items.
• Correspondence concerning gaining tax exemption for the donations, 20 items.

Correspondence with participants for the Symposium. These include requests for tickets for the Symposium, acknowledgements of receipt of tickets, and regrets from those unable to attend. Dated 22 February 1973 -12 July 1973.

A series of four letters concerned with sending condolences on the death of George VI and asking Elizabeth II to be the future Patron of the Royal Asiatic Society. These items have been affixed together. They are listed in the order they appear:

• Copy of a letter from the Director (Sir Richard Winstedt), Royal Asiatic Society, to The Right Honorable Sir Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Buckingham Palace, to ask whether her Majesty would be pleased to be the Patron of the Society. Typed, 1 piece, dated 13 May 1952
• Copy of an Address from the President, Council and Members of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland to Her Most Gracious Sovereign to offer their sympathy upon the death of her father and to ask for her Patronage. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 20 February 1952
• Letter from R. Lloyd Thomas, Home Office, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society. to inform that the matter of Patronage should be taken up with the Keeper of the Privy Purse. Typed with printed letterhead, 1 piece, dated 8 May 1952
• Letter from Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse, to the Director, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that Her Majesty will grant her Patronage to the Society. Typed with printed letterhead, 1 piece, dated 22 July 1952

Correspondence and notes concerning Ingham's book 'Devi of the Tigers'.

This file consists of correspondence to Miss Bate concerning her father's MS of the Hind Dictionary and possible republication. The letters include:

• Postcard from Luzac & Co, Foreign and Oriental Booksellers, to Miss E E Bate, dated 9th August, 1922 to inform that they can provide a copy of the 2nd edition of the Dictionary
• Letter from The Indian Press Ltd, Calcutta to Miss E E Bate, dated 15th May, 1929, suggesting that she sends her father's MS for their perusal for possible new edition of the book in 1932.
• Letter from J.W. Thomas to E.E. Bate, dated 16th October, 1929, to give Miss Bate advice about gaining Government approval for her father's dictionary.
• Letter from Atkinson and Stainer, Solicitors, to Miss E E Bate, dated 28th October, 1929, regarding the Assignment of copyright for the Dictionary.
• Further letter from Atkinson and Stainer, Solicitors, to Miss E E Bate, dated 30th October, 1929, to enclose a copy of the draft Assignment of copyright.
• Letter from the North India Christian Tract and Book Society to Miss E E Bate, dated 4th November, 1929, regarding reviewing the MS for potential publication.
• Letter from Civil Service Commission to Miss E E Bate, dated 14th November, 1929, regarding the mention of the Dictionary on the Indian Civil Service Examination Paper with attached paper.
• Letter from The Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights & Composers to Miss E E Bate, dated 24th December, 1929, to give advice regarding the possibility of buying back the rights to the Dictionary.
• Specimen Pages of the Suggested Enlargement of Bate's Hindi Dictionary from Miss E E Bate to The Indian Press, Allahabad, India, dated 31st December 1929.
• Letter from Luzac & Co, Foreign and Oriental Booksellers, to Miss E E Bate, dated 30th January, 1930, to say they would be unable to supply a copy of the Dictionary.
• Letter from The Indian Press Limited to Miss E E Bate, dated 21st January, 1930, to inform that they do not wish to purchase the rights to a revised issue.
• Letter from The Indian Press Limited to Miss E E Bate, dated 11th March, 1930, confirming they will not undertake to print an enlarged version.

• Letter from Kathleen Newton to send her 1931 subscription, dated 11 June 1931.
• Letter from Henry Newak resigning his membership, dated 14 July 1931.
• Letter to Miss Edwards to ask if Miss Bennett can be admitted to the Society, dated 17 July 1931.

Correspondence concerning an alleged debt for offprints of an article by B.G. Martin and Dr Freeman-Grenville. These are:

• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr. Freeman-Grenville to enquire whether he had requested 25 additional offprints. If he hadn't the Society would pay the outstanding debt to the printers. Dated 8 June 1977.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr. B.G. Martin, similarly asking whether he had requested additional offprints. Dated 8 June 1977.
• Letters from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr. B.G. Martin, and Dr. Freeman-Grenville to inform that she had paid the debt to Stephen Austin as she had failed to receive a reply from either of them. Both dated 26 July 1977.
• Letter from Dr. B.G. Martin to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to inform that he felt the debt was a clerical error of the Society's but he is sending a placatory cheque, dated 4 August 1977.

Correspondence regarding obtaining copies of Papers delivered at the Symposium. These are:

• Correspondence with David Kahn regarding obtaining a copy of the proceedings of the conference, 3 letters, dated 1 August - 10 August 1973.
• Correspondence with S. Strelcyn asking for summaries of the Symposium, 4 letters, dated 29 August - 11 September 1973.
• Letter from W.J. Legendre regarding the Journal in which the Papers were due to be published, dated 30 March 1974.
• Letter from Stuart Simmonds, President, and A.D.H. Bivar, Director, Royal Asiatic Society to ask authors for their Papers to publish in the Society's Journal, dated 10 April 1974.

Correspondence concerning the reimbursements for Professor Snellgrove's attendance to receive the Burton Memorial Medal and deliver his lecture.

Correspondence concerning publication of a new India handbook.