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Correspondence regarding the presentation of "Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi" by Dr Barbara Brend, and "India East West: the Age of Discovery in late Georgian India as seen through the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society, London" by Jochen Sokoly and Dr Alison Ohta. These are:

• Letter from Dr Gordon Johnson, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to the Prince of Wales to present the publications to him as a token of the Society's esteem at the continued patronage of the Society. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 27 July 2011.
• Letter from Jonathan Hellewell, Clarence House, to Dr Gordon Johnson, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank him, on the Prince's behalf, for sending the books.Typed with printed letterhead, dated 25 August 2011.

There is an invitation card to the Presentation of the Medal and a letter to the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India concerning the presentation.

In this sub-series there is a letter concerning the production of the January lecture card and an example of the Invitation.

"Preliminary handlist of transcripts of the William Claxton Peppé correspondence from the papers of Neil Peppé, Esq., prepared by Charles Allen With additions by Kathy Lazenbatt Amended and annotated by R.B. Parsons". Transcriptions originally carried out in 2008 with amendments in 2009. With these is: "What happened at Piprahwa: a chronology of events relating to the excavation in January 1898..." by Charles Allen Paper on the William Claxton Peppé Correspondence presented by Neil Peppé at the Harewood Conference in 2006.

All are typed documents, dated 2006-2009.

Copy of an article reprinted from Man, 1933, entitled "International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Preliminary Conference at Basel: 20-22 April, 1933". The article describes the sessions held at the Conference, the proposals made concerning future Congresses, and participants at the preliminary conference. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, London.

Offprint from the journal volume XXIX, part III of the Malayan branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Gerald Tibbetts' article: 'Pre-Islamic Arabia & South-East Asia.'

Preface to Ta-hsueh Chang-chu by Chu Hsi. Copy of a draft translation of Zhu Xi's preface to Daxue zhangju by Kiril Thompson with copies of the pages from the reference edition of the Chinese work. A handwritten note on the top-right corner of the first page specifies that the document was sent to Graham by Thompson on "11/28/86".

Preface - Preface for Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science, incomplete draft.

Preface for Unreason within Reason .

"Preeminence of the Vernaculars; of the Anglicists Answered: Being Four Letters on the Education of the People of India" By B.H. Hodgson, Fourth Edition, Serampore Press, 1847. Printed hardbound book with Hodgson's annotations. Also contains a news cutting entitled "Hindostanee Reader" which Hodgson has dated 1 December 1873. Printed material, 2 items, dated 1847-1873.