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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).

Letter from W.H. Allen & Co. to T.W. Rhys Davids to send a cheque for the payment of their account. Annotated by Rhys Davids to state that he had sent a receipt and asked for £50 more.

Letter from W.H. Allen & Co. to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids to make an appointment for Mr Johnstone to meet regarding the agreement between the Company and the Society.

Letter from W.H. Allen & Co. to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids to explain why the payment hasn't been made and to inform that the statement of accounts would be sent in the next few days.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to W.N. Ewer to thank for Ewer's letter and explain his tardiness in reply. They had been in Spain and Portugal for several weeks. Allen will be in London in April and if there is time will telephone Ewer to arrange to visit him. Dated: 10 March 1970.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to Victor Louis Ménage in which Allen discusses existing translations of Celebi's first three volumes by Von Hammer which he praises. He also discusses issues arising from the unwillingness of Turkish authorities to help in presenting Celebi's work for political reasons including his favorable depictions of Armenians and Kurds as well as the reality of his Ottoman identity which Allen feels clashes with the new more European identity contemporary Turks prefer to adopt. Dated: 23 April 1960.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to Victor Louis Ménage in which Allen thanks Ménage for sending Serbo-Croat Celebi volumes and admits that despite his lack of knowledge in Serbo-Croat his knowledge of Russian helped him asses that the editor of the text has done a good job. Dated: 18 October 1960.