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Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Assistant Secretary, Council of India, to request the 200 guineas, previously given by the East India Company, but last year given by the Secretary of State for India in Council. A warrant for this payment is requested. (Found on page 271)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Secretary, East India Company, to apply for annual donation made by the East India Company to be paid to the Society's bankers, Sir William Call. (Found on page 251)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Assistant Secretary, Council of India, to ask for the 200 guineas which used to be paid by 'late East India Company' to promote the objects of the Society. (Found on page 263)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Fergusson to thank for a cast of an Indian Inscription given by the Crystal Palace Company (Fergusson was director of the company at this time). (Found on page 236)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Murray, Foreign Office, in which, through Murray, Lord John Russell's is thanked for the diary of 'General Bartholomey's journeys through the districts of Caucasia' printed in Tiflis in 1853. (Found on page 272)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to J.F. Rowbotham, Manchester Exhibition, regarding objects to be loaned for the Manchester Exhibition, all that is required is a 'moral' guarantee in the form of a letter addressed to Society. (Found on page 240)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to John H. Hickcox, Secretary, New York State Library, concerning an agreement for an exchange of publications. Though the New York State Library had agreed to send 18 volumes of the 'Natural History of New York', they have not been received. The letter recommends that they should be sent to a Mr Stevens, at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar Square. (Found on page 231)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Kali Prasno Sing, Calcutta, to thank for the Bengali translations of 'Sanscrit dramas of Machlati' and more particularly for the drama founded on an episode of the Mahabharata composed in Bengali. The Society was pleased to hear of the completion of his translation of the whole of the Mahabharata and regrets that few people in England can appreciate his work in Bengali. (Found on page 272)

Letter from Edwin Norris to Lord Stanley, MP, Secretary of State for India, to inform that as India Secretary he is ex-officio a Vice-Patron of the Society and it is hoped that he will accept this invitation. He is sent the Regulations and a list of the members of the Society. (Found on page 260)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Lord Stanley to enclose a memorandum addressed to First Lord of Treasury. The good offices of Lord Stanley, as Vice Patron, are requested to help the Society, made difficult because of the limited means of Society, to 'pay a large outlay for house rents'. (Found on page 263)