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Letter from Hal Roth, Brown University, to Angus Graham to inform that the books Graham has requested for his course have been ordered. He also asks Graham's advice on the programme for a planned one day workshop.

Letter from Hal Roth to Angus Graham to express his delight that Graham has agreed to be on the panel. With the letter is a copy of the panel proposal with abstracts for "What is Huang-lao?" by Harold D. Roth, "Warfare Taoist Style: How Military Traditions flow into the Huai-Nan Tzu" by Kidder Smith, and "A Confucian with a Taoist face?: The Huang-Lao Chapters of the Ch'un Ch'ui Fan Lu" by Sarah A. Queen.

Letter from [Hal Roth], Department of Religious Studies, Brown University, to Angus Graham to send a commentary by Liu Chi, to comment on possible funding for Graham's visit and to ask Graham to send a letter of recommendation to Professor John Reeder concerning his attempt to gain tenure at the university.

Letter from Hal Roth to Angus Graham to state that he is organising a panel on Huang-Lao for the meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in New Orleans in the coming spring and asking Graham whether he would be willing to participate.

Letter from Hal [Roth] to Angus Graham with news of his work and family but also to impress on Graham that he should be at the Early China Seminar. (The letter dates from before Roth's move to Brown in 1985.

Letter from Habib-an Naly Khal Saulat to present to the Society a copy of two books of Persian poetical composition. Handwritten, dated 23 March 1917.

Letter from H Robinson, Kendal to Rev William Manning, Diss, Norfolk. He writes of his own illness and recovery and thanks William Manning for the pleasant time he and his niece spent with the Manning family. He has heard via Mr Lloyd that Thomas Manning is now recovered and that he may visit Westmorland that summer. However he has heard that Thomas has plans to travel again, this time to Russia and then on to China. He hopes that Thomas Manning's studies and publications will detain him at home this year. Robinson asks that if Manning publishes by subscription that his name be put to him when William Manning writes to his son. William Manning (son) he writes has finished college and is occupied in altering a house and laying out a garden. Madam Susan and [Miss Phoney] he understands have been in town this spring and hoped they enjoyed Sir Chappelow's house. he writes that when he visited Mrs Manning looked nearly as well as she did in 1796, only more lame. He writes of his own family's health. The rest of the letter is taken with his views of the political situation, both the conflict with France and Napoleon's power and the Roman Catholic Irish problem. He asks to be remembered to Mr B Wiseman. Dated 31 May 1805. Handwritten, 1 piece, 4 sides

Letter from H. Ritter to A.J. Arberry in which he writes concerning his publication.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens thanks Allen for a cheque and hopes he recovers from his illness. He says he has sent him John Lincoln's 'One Man's Mexico', John Carter's 'A.B.C. for Book Collectors' and Margaret Murray's 'Witchcraft in Western Europe'. He says he has loaned him Margaret Murray's 'God of the Witches', Vorobeva's 'Life in Two Worlds' and a paper about hypnotherapy practised by Sufis in Afghanistan. Dated: 9 March 1968.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which he writes of his actual and potential work plans and about his forthcoming visit to Allen. He encloses an article from the Times Literary Supplement (not present). Dated: 9 January 1972.