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Letter from Professor Georg Morgenstierne, President of International Union of Orientalists, to President, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the next General Assembly of the Union would be held at the International Congress of Orientalists in New Delhi on 6 January 1964, and to ask for the Society to nominate a representative. A handwritten copy of the reply has been added to this letter stating that the Society has nominated Dr Allchin, who has succeeded Dr Sinor.

Sympathy card on hearing of Stuart's death.

Letter from Geoffrey Scott Mowat to Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary to submit his essay and express his regret that sailing conditions prevented him from posting it earlier. He asks that if it is rejected would they please return the essay in the enclosed envelope. Typed, 1 side dated 28 August 1940. With this letter is a letter from T.S. Wetherall, Dean and Chaplain, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to add his explanation for the delay in receipt of the essay. Handwritten, 1 side, dated 9 October 1940.

Letter from Geoffrey Lloyd, Darwin College, Cambridge, to Professor and Mrs Graham to invite them to a small dinner party in Graham's honour after a seminar at Darwin College.

Letter from Geoff Salter, Hampshire County Library, to Raymond Head to enclose information regarding the pictures and articles that were in the house of George Staunton, Leigh Park House, Hampshire, in 1836. He asks whether any in the list match those in the Royal Asiatic Society's Collections. A photocopy of the list is with the letter. The list bears some handwritten annotations of items that are or were in the Society's Collections.

Letter from General Benjamin Forbes Gordon to Captain Henry Harkness, Royal Asiatic Society Secretary, concerning the donation, from his daughter, Maria Forbes, of two drawings by a Maltese artist, one of a Phoenician temple ruin on Island of Gozo; the second a copy of one of Newnham's Antiquities of Ireland. Dated Malta 11th April, 1834, 1 piece, 4 sides.

Letter from Gary [Snyder] to Angus Graham to thank Graham for the book and that he liked the poem very much after a lapse of time. He sends an American Sutra (with the letter), undated.

Letter from Gary Snyder to Angus Graham concerning Buddhist meditation practices and the use of psychedelics.

Letter from Garrett G. Ackerson, Jr. to The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Ackerson, the European Director of the International Rescue Committee, praising Duncanson's book 'Government and Revolution in Vietnam' and enquiring about further scholarship written by him.

Letter from Ganapat Sakai to Brian Houghton Hodgson at Darjeeling, 4 January 1847, in which he thanks Hodgson for his letter and writes that he will try to exchange the Pandit and send the painter in his due time. He then writes of the Maharaja and his sons going to Benares and that the then Resident, Dr Login, has returned from accompanying the Maharaja. A new resident Major Thoresby has been appointed who,with Lord Ellenborough,has been at Durbar and Jhawnee. He writes that he learnt from the Delhi Gazette of Mr Colvin returning from Ceylon. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 4 January 1847.