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Letter from Gajrajsing Thupa to Brian Houghton Hodgson who writes of his neglect of maintaining correspondence with Hodgson and of his gratitude for Hodgson's care. He hopes that when Kenyon is with Hodgson he will tell Gajraj's news. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 17 November 1866.

Letter from Ganapat Sakai to Brian Houghton Hodgson at Darjeeling, 15 October 1846, in which he gives a detailed account of the shooting of General Guggin Sing and the subsequent consequences leading to the takeover of the country by Jangabahadur. He appends a list of those who "fell in the tumult" of that night, dated 15 September 1846. Handwritten, 6 sides.

Letter from Ganapat Sakai to Brian Houghton Hodgson at Darjeeling, 24 February 1847, in which thanks Hodgson for his letter and writes about the hearing that the Maharaja has left Benares for Nepal but is prevented from entering. He also writes that he has visited the painter who has been ill and who will not go to Hodgson in Darjeeling, nor can the pandit travel at this time. He has also enquired of the Durbar for a Pandit for Hodgson but to no avail. He writes that [Bhawan Shatther] has asked that he write to Hodgson on his behalf as he is likely to lose his Post. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 24 February 1847.

Letter from Ganapat Sakai to Brian Houghton Hodgson at Darjeeling, 4 January 1847, in which he thanks Hodgson for his letter and writes that he will try to exchange the Pandit and send the painter in his due time. He then writes of the Maharaja and his sons going to Benares and that the then Resident, Dr Login, has returned from accompanying the Maharaja. A new resident Major Thoresby has been appointed who,with Lord Ellenborough,has been at Durbar and Jhawnee. He writes that he learnt from the Delhi Gazette of Mr Colvin returning from Ceylon. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 4 January 1847.

Letter from Garrett G. Ackerson, Jr. to The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Ackerson, the European Director of the International Rescue Committee, praising Duncanson's book 'Government and Revolution in Vietnam' and enquiring about further scholarship written by him.

Letter from Gary [Snyder] to Angus Graham to thank Graham for the book and that he liked the poem very much after a lapse of time. He sends an American Sutra (with the letter), undated.

Letter from Gary Snyder to Angus Graham concerning Buddhist meditation practices and the use of psychedelics.

Letter from General Benjamin Forbes Gordon to Captain Henry Harkness, Royal Asiatic Society Secretary, concerning the donation, from his daughter, Maria Forbes, of two drawings by a Maltese artist, one of a Phoenician temple ruin on Island of Gozo; the second a copy of one of Newnham's Antiquities of Ireland. Dated Malta 11th April, 1834, 1 piece, 4 sides.

Letter from Geoff Salter, Hampshire County Library, to Raymond Head to enclose information regarding the pictures and articles that were in the house of George Staunton, Leigh Park House, Hampshire, in 1836. He asks whether any in the list match those in the Royal Asiatic Society's Collections. A photocopy of the list is with the letter. The list bears some handwritten annotations of items that are or were in the Society's Collections.

Letter from Geoffrey Lloyd, Darwin College, Cambridge, to Professor and Mrs Graham to invite them to a small dinner party in Graham's honour after a seminar at Darwin College.