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Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to J. Bowra Dickinson, Secretary, East India Company, in which the Royal Asiatic Society requests, in the name of Sir Henry Rawlinson, that the Society be allowed to 'borrow' the Nebuchadnezzar slab in the East India Company library for a short time with a view to correcting errors to a translation published in 1803. (Found on page 256)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Secretary, East India House, to convey the Society's thanks to Court of the East India Company for the exhibition of Buddhist offerings found in Rangoon. (Found on page 247)

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)