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Letter from William Behnes to Colonel John Briggs, Secretary to Royal Asiatic Society, regarding inadequate payment for the marble bust of Major-General Sir Henry Worsley. Dated May 1838, handwritten letter, 1 piece, 3 sides.

Letter from William Behnes to Captain Henry Harkness, Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the commissioning of a marble bust of Major-General Sir Henry Worsley. Dated July 18th, 1837, handwritten letter, 1 piece, 4 sides.

Letter from William B. Eastman, Director, State University of New York Press, to Angus Graham regarding the publication of his collection of essays to be entitled Philosophy on the East-West Border. With the letter is a review and recommendation provided by David Hall on behalf of himself and Roger Ames.

Letter from Wilhelm Schott to Brian Houghton Hodgson concerning Himalayan languages and China studies. Handwritten in German, 3 sides, dated 5 November 1860.

Letter from Wilhelm Schott to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank Hodgson for his gift of Hodgson's 2 volume work on Himalayan languages. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 1 May 1860. With accompanying envelope.

Letter from Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell (1794- 1884), Frankfurt Zoological Society, to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he apologises for the delay in thanking Hodgson for sending some of his natural history publications from India. He hopes that Hodgson has received the certificate of Honorary Membership for the Zoological Society. Handwritten, 1 side, dated 2 March 1849.

Letter from Wilfred Thesiger to the President, Royal Asiatic Society to express his honour on being awarded the Burton Memorial Medal. He writes that he is also honoured to be asked to give a lecture but will be travelling and therefore unable to undertake this until 1967.

Letter from Wilfred Thesiger to the President, Royal Asiatic Society, to agree with the proposed inscription for the Medal. He plans to be back in London towards the end of November and will contact when he has firmer plans.

Letter from Wilfred Thesiger to Sir Harold Bailey to apologise for leaving Professor Twitchett's lecture early due to his mother's ill health. He writes that she also wishes to convey her apologies for causing a disturbance. He reiterates his honour at being awarded the Burton Memorial Medal.

Letter from Whalen Lai, University of California, to Angus Graham to send a paper on Kao-tzu for his opinion. Originally located with a draft copy of Lai's paper on "Reconstituting Kao-tzu's pu-tung-hsin" (Graham Collection).