Showing 8773 results

Two letters from Clarence House to the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. These are:

• Letter from HRH Prince of Wales to express his thoughts to the Society during the time of disruption. Received as email attachment and printed, 1 piece, dated 15 April 2020.
• Letter from Catie Bland, PA to the Deputy Private Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwell, to Professor Anthony Stockwell, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank for his letter and to state that HRH will be delighted to hear of the continuing work of the Society during lock-down and the plans for the Society's bicentenary celebrations. Typed with printed letterhead, 1 piece plus accompanying envelope, dated 6 July 2020.

Copies of the correspondence undertaken in the running of the Oriental Translation Fund between 1836 and 1849. The Volume is indexed according to correspondent.

Correspondence and notes regarding the negotiations for leaving the premises. Letters between the Royal Asiatic Society, their solicitors, and those of Asprey and Co. Ltd. regarding the deal to be struck for the Society to vacate the premises. Also notes of decisions made by the Society.

There are three letters written by Isabel Burton: two are to Mr Cotton regarding publications and the third is a printed letter to ask for a review notice of her Richard Burton biography. There is a further typed copy of a letter from Isabel to Mr Quaritch.

A Series of Letters from Richard Burton to Alexander George Ellis (British Museum) concerning bibliographical enquiries and other matters, dated 8 May 1887- 26 March 1890. All have annotated transcriptions by Mary S. Lovell, dated 24 October 1998

These letters have added significance for the RAS as Ellis was Honorary Librarian at the Society from 1919 to 1937.

The Correspondence from William Jones to Samuel Davis consists of 37 letters collected into a brown leather bound book, approximately in date order. The introduction to the book states the letters are "chiefly concerning the Literature & Science of Asia; including some of the early history of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta." The correspondence reveals a lively communication from Jones to Davis and often concerning Davis interest in Indian astronomy.

Also within the book is a handwritten version of an introduction to these letters as printed in the "Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. III - Part I", 1831 in which all the letters were printed

The letters also contain one letter from Sir Joesph Banks to Samuel Davis thanking him for paper on the History of Astronomy which Banks had communicated to the Royal Society and remarks from a Mr Cavendish. These are handwritten and the letter is dated March 18th, 1790

The binding is broken and therefore care must be taken in using this material.

Within this series are three letters from Charles Lloyd to Thomas Manning, a letter from Claude François Letondal and a further incomplete and unsigned letter. There is also a photocopy of the letter sent by Richard Winstedt, President of the Royal Asiatic Society to Miss Manning to thank her for the portrait of Thomas Manning.

These are a mixture of personal and official letters from Manning's return to England in 1817 until his death. Highlights include correspondence with the East India Company concerning possible employment of the Chinese men that Manning had brought back with him, letters regarding spying in the Napoleonic Wars and letters of introduction for Manning's time in Italy

Three letters from Colonel T.L.G. Gayer-Anderson concerning the bequest of his brother to the Society following his death in 1946. Two are sent in February 1946 to inform of the bequest and to list the items. These are both typed with handwritten annotations, each 1 side, dated 3 and 28 February 1946. The third concerns the presentation of objects to the Society's Museum and to enquire whether the Society would be interested in photographs of the house of his brother, Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, in Cairo, handwritten, 3 sides, dated 25 July 1947.

Correspondence regarding the possibility of the Royal Asiatic Society being given premises with the East India Association, the National Indian Associatation and the Northbrook Club.