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Letter from F. Grenfell Baker to R. Campbell-Thompson in which he expresses gladness to hear that the fund is healthier than he had feared. He is concerned, however, by a lack of efficient publicity. He is keen to get household names to champion the cause of the fund in the press, re-emphasising Rudyard Kipling as the best candidate.

Letter from F Grenfell-Baker to Campbell-Thompson, typed, with additional typed note in which he recounts small successes of publicity campaign for the Fund. He re-emphasises the need for "well-known names" to support the cause and casts doubt on the worth or likelihood of lecturing at the Reading Literary and Scientific Society.

Letter from F. Grenfell-Baker (Honorary Secretary) to Reginald Campbell-Thompson to send a cheque for five guineas to be given to the Memorial Fund. He confirms Kipling as a committee member and writes about the number of people who have joined the Committee. He writes about his friendship with Richard Burton and that he was there at Burton's death in Trieste.

Letter from Ezio Tonini, Ethiopian Studies Centre, Asmara, Ethiopia, to Richard Pankhurst to thank him for his visit to the Centre and to discuss the publication of articles in the Quaderni di Studi Etiopici Journal.

A letter from Edward Walter Hutchinson to The Manager, The Westminster Bank Ltd., Marylebone branch, London to enclose a Power of Attorney for Dr Hallam concerning the manuscript of The Phaulkon Affair. Typed letter from "Tanganyika Territory, East Africa", dated 8 July 1943.

A letter From Edward Walter Hutchinson to The Secrretary, Royal Asiatic Society concerning the manuscript of The Phaulkon Affair , and Hutchinson's concerns that his letters of the RAS's replies may have gone astray. Typed letter from "Tanganyika Territory, East Africa", dated 8 July 1943.

A letter from Edward Walter Hutchinson to The Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society concerning Hutchinson's sequel to Adventurers in Siam in the Seventeenth Century , titled The Phaulkon Affair: an account of two ruined cities revisited . This was composed whilst being interned for a year in the British consulate in Saigon. Typed letter with handwritten annotations, written from on board the exchange vessel, Tatuta Mara, dated 31 August 1942

Letter from Edward Walter Hutchinson the The Secretary, The Royal Asiatic Society concerning the possible reissue of Adventurers in Siam in the Seventeenth Century or release of the Society's copyright. Typed letter, dated 15 October 1960.

A letter from Edward Walter Hutchinson to The Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to list the letters posted by Hutchinson to the Royal Asiatic Society between 27th August 1940 and 5th May 1943 and give a resume of their contents. Typed letter of two sheets from Johannesburg, dated 11 July 1943.

Letter from Edward Hutchinson to Janette Collet Gatty concerning Gatty's newly published Voiage de Siam du Père Bouvet sent to Hutchinson from Alexander Griswold. Typed letter with annotations, dated 22 November 1963.