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Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Joseph Meyer, Liverpool, and J.E. Marks, Birmingham, to inform them that a notification of election was sent out on 7 February but these would appear not to have been delivered. (Found on page 192)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Joseph Hume, MP, to inform him that he has been a member of the Royal Asiatic Society since 3 January 1824. (Found on page 170)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Joseph Henry, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, to thank for his letter and three packets of books which will make a valuable addition to the Library. An official acknowledgement will follow. (Found on page 170)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Joseph Calverly, Collector of Metropolitan Services, in response to his request for payment of £6.18.0 but to inform, that under a Victorian Act of Parliament, the Society is exempt from 'all parochial rates'. (Found on page 145)

Letter from Richard Clarke to John Wedderburn to inform him that no money is due from him for the Journals transmitted to him. (Found on page 91)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to John Shepherd, Chairman of the Court of the East India Company, to remind that as chairman of the East India Company, he is ex-officio a Vice-Patron of the Society and he is requested to accept the office. (Found on page 120)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to John Gould, to thank for a sight of his 'exquisitely beautiful work on the birds of Asia' but, with regret, to tell him that the state of the Society's funds will not allow them to purchase the same even though it would be 'of great value and interest to the library'. (Found on page 144)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to John Ebenezer Marks, High School, Birmingham, to remind that the annual subscription, 3 guineas, should be paid by end of year. (Marks subsequently became a missionary/teacher in Burma for 40 years.) (Found on page 198)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to John Capper, Secretary, Ceylon Branch of Royal Asiatic Society, concerning a paper by Dr McVicar on the Village Councils in Ceylon. Clarke also gives details regarding new Regulations of the Society including that members in Ceylon will have to pay one guinea to receive the Journal. The letter also provides information as to what members will have to pay should they return to England. Further there seems to be a problem with dispatch of the Society's Journal to Ceylon. Also the Society in London has not received a copy of Issue no. 2 of the Ceylon Society's Journal. (Found a page 122)

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to John C Herries, MP, President of the Board of Control, to remind, that because of his position, he is automatically a Vice-Patron of the Society. It is hoped that he will accept the office. (Fox Maude resigned in Feb 1852.) (Found on page 159)