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Letter from Henry Unwin Addington, Foreign Office, to Richard Clarke, Secretary to Royal Asiatic Society, regarding inquiries to be made at Constantinople respecting packages sent by Major Henry Rawlinson to the Embassy at Constantinople for transmission to England. Dated March 20, 1846, handwritten letter, 1 piece, 2 sides.

Letter from Henry Yule to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he apologises for causing Hodgson so much writing and that he has been waiting for Montgomerie to be at home. He states that the papers Hodgson suggests will be very suitable and asks, if not too heavy, to send them via book post. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 23 July 1873. Also accompanying envelope with Hodgson's annotations.

Letter from Herbert Allen Giles to Bernard Quaritch to ask advice regarding a volume of Chinese poetry translated into English about which he had recently seen an article. Handwritten 2 sides, dated 16 December 1893.

Letter from Herbert Allen Giles to Bernard Quaritch in which he apologises that the last rubbing is less legible than the first. He writes concerning a dinner for W. Fang which he assumes will be at 6pm. He would not be able to get to the Freemasons Hall before that time. He doubts that the Marquis will come up from Folkestone and asks whether the Editor of the London & China Express had received a formal invitation. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 27 January 1884.

Letter from Herbert Chatley to Mrs Davies, The China Society, to send a translation of one of the oldest astronomical texts to be bound and put in the Royal Asiatic Society Library.

Letter from Herbert Fingarette to Angus Graham to give his opinion on Ben Schwarz's review of Graham's book. He writes to express his appreciation for the contribution Graham has written for Fingarette's Festschrift which had been kept secret from him, even by his wife.

Letter from Herbert Fingarette to Angus Graham concerning Graham's review of Benjamin Schwartz's The World of Thought in Ancient China.

Letter from Herbert Fingarette to Angus Graham to send some remarks which he hopes will be of value in the progress of their discourse. The notes are with the letter.

Letter from Herbert Fingarette to Angus Graham to thank him for sending material on a new work in progress. He remarks on Graham's generosity towards Fingarette's own work on Confucius and how this new work sent adds into their previous discourse regarding Reason and Spontaneity.

Letter from Herbert Fingarette to Angus Graham to thank him for the monograph Graham had sent on Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking. He looks forward to reading it after the holiday season. Fingarette writes concerning the previous letter and notes he has sent on Reason and Spontaneity and that he is unsure whether he remembered to send them via airmail.