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Letter from Barbara Ingham to the Ingham family, from India, in which she writes about arriving in Jodhpur. She describes the scenery and the activities she has been undertaking. Handwritten airletter, dated 5 January [1975]

Copy of a letter from Barbara Ingham to Timothy Ffytche appealing for advice on the case of a young girl who has a problem with her eyelids and asking whether she would be suitable for an operation in Calcutta (Kolkata).

Letter from Barbara Ingham to John Ingham, writing from India, in which she writes about the buildings she has visited and her impression of them. She also writes about her daily life. Handwritten airletter, postmarked 2 December 1974

Letter from the Manager, Barclays Bank Limited, Paddington Branch, to Charles Ambrose Storey concerning the transfer Storey has requested.

Letter from Baring to Thomas Manning thanking him for sending a new scale to use in tuning the piano. Undated. Handwritten, 1 piece, 3 sides

Letter from Baron Bentinck, Minister of the Netherlands, to Edwin Norris, Royal Asiatic Society, to present a copy of the first part of the work "Analectes sur Christiane & la Literature des Arabes D'Espagee". Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides, dated 14 September 1858.

Letter from Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt to Brian Houghton Hodgson to Introduce Dr. Schlagintweit and his friend and request for help for them for their intended survey relating to physical geography, metrology and geology of Himalaya. Request for the same letters of recommendation as Dr. Hooker was privileged to have during his research and survey. Hodgson is addressed as long time friend to Humboldt, and Dr. Schlagintweit is referred to as a young friend and promising scholar of geography, geology, and metrology etc. Letter is attached with original envelope with Hodgson's note of received date, i.e. 20th April 1855. (Hodgson mss. in the British library have a draft copy of Hodgson's letter written in Nepali to the King of Nepal requesting for help for Dr. Schlagintweit in the same way help had previously been given to Dr. Hooker.) Handwritten in French, 1 side, dated 26 February 1854.

Letter from Beatrice de Cardi to Lydia Collins, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to express her delight at being awarded the Burton Memorial Medal and that she is available to lecture on 14 October 1993. She also expresses her pleasure at learning that Doreen Ingrams has been similarly awarded.

Letter from Beatrice de Cardi to Lydia Collins, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to thank her for sending a fixtures list and to point out an error that she was not connected to the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London.

Letter from Bebe Barwis-Holliday, wife of J. Edward Barwis-Holliday to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to send a newspaper cutting detailing Major Barwis-Holliday's trip to Japan as the British delegate to the OISCA conference in Japan, dated 2 October 1974. The cutting is with the letter.