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Letter from Nathaniel Wallich to Professor Henslow (Botanist on Indian plants) concerning specimens that Wallich is sending to him. He asks to be remembered to Mrs Henslow and remembers with gratitude their hospitality and treatment among the Professors at Cambridge. He asks that Henslow tell Professor Sedgwick that he has written to his friend Mr J Calder at Calcutta concerning the Poona Apophallite. Handwritten, dated 17 November 1831

Letter from Nathaniel Wallich to Dawson Turner concerning Wallich being unable to accompany Turner on his visit to Babao R [Moham] Ray. Handwritten, dated 1 June 1831.

Letter from Nathaniel Tarn, Cape Goliard Press, to Angus Graham to inform Graham that he has been unable to get Cape to publish The Sun Beneath the Coral. He suggests a more avant-garde magazine. He sends an article from World Wide Open; "The Work Laid Before Us in this Disunited Kingdom" by Nathaniel Tarn.

Letter from Nathan Sivin to Angus Graham to enclose notes on Tsou Yen (not present).

Letter from Nathan Sivin, Kyoto University, to Angus Graham to write about Mohist optics and to send some recent work he has done on the topic, dated 3 March 1968.

Connected with this letter are Propositions about optics: Propositions XVI to XXIII and Propositions XX, XXI and XXVII as visual representations of ancient Chinese conceptions about optics.

Letter from Nathan Sivin to Angus Graham in which he writes that he hopes to see Graham at the Needham Research Institute in the summer. He had received a copy of Graham's new book which he has found interesting and wonders whether Graham would be interested in his own new publication.

Letter from Natalie Margaret Imeretinsky to W.E.D. Allen in which she thanks Allen for sending the book by D.M. Lang. She writes of family news and of preparing a publication about her family. She writes of other books and, that if Allen is in Paris, her brother is at the hotel Lotti. Typed, in French. Dated: 6 June 1957.

Letter from Natalie Margaret Imeretinsky to W.E.D. Allen in which she gives family news and writes about her travels. Dated: 30 June 1958. In French.

Letter from "Nana Sahib Peshwa (Balaji Baji Rao) to Duttajee Sindia telling him of the probable defection of Ibrahim Khan and desiring him to pay Ibrahim in that case - [100...] on the spot". Letter in Marathi with description in English in a different hand.

Letter from Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris to Brian Houghton Hodgson to acknowledge the collection of birds that Hodgson had sent via Nathaniel Wallich. Handwritten in French with printed letterhead, 2 sides, signed by Adrien de Jussieu, Director, Louis Cordier, Treasurer and Achille Valenciennes, Secretary, dated 28 April 1835. With accompanying note from [Eugene Jacquet] concerning l'Academie du Sciences. Handwritten in French, 1 side, undated.