Letter from Elizabeth A Powis, Assistant Librarian, The Royal Institution, to Raymond Head to send information regarding the Egyptian mummy, belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society which was unrolled at the Royal Institute. She enclose a copy of the illustrations from the book "An Address on Embalming Generally, delivered at the Royal Institution on the Unrolling of a Mummy" by John Davidson. These illustrations are with the letter. She writes that she is also enclosing a copy of the Managers' Minutes concerning the lecture. This is not with the letter.
Royal Institution of Great BritainA letter expressing her sympathy to Patricia.
Letter from Eliot Deutsch, Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference, to Angus Graham to inform him that the University of Hawaii Press had agreed to undertake the publishing of the Conference volume. He gives Graham a timetable for the submission of his Paper.
Deutsch EliotLetter from Eliot Deutsch, Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference, to Angus Graham to inform him that they would like to include Graham's paper in the Conference publication.
Deutsch EliotLetter from Eliot Deutsch to Angus Graham to confirm his place on the programme of the Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference at which his paper, Linguistic Relativism in Chinese, should be delivered in a 20 minute time span. With the letter is a roster of participants.
Deutsch EliotLetter from Eleanor B Glyn, Netley Court, Southampton, to enclose a contribution to the Fund.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Elbert G. Mathews to Dennis J. Duncanson with an enclosed photograph showing Duncanson at the 1970-71 Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy. Duncanson is photographed on 10 December 1970 alongside Ambassador Mathews and Mr Jack F. Matlock.
Matthews Elbert G.Letter from Elaine Feinstein, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, to "whom it may concern" to recommend Hong-Bin Liu be allowed to stay in the West after having to seek refuge subsequent to his poems being displayed in Tienanmen Square.
Feinstein Elaine b 1930Letter from E.L. Brandreth to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes that he will send the Papers once they are printed; meantime he wishes to show Hodgson his map on which he would like Hodgson's opinion. Brandreth therefore invites Hodgson to lunch. Brandreth's wife sends Mrs Hodgson her regards and asks that she will accompany Hodgson to the lunch. Hodgson has written on the blank side of paper some notes regarding Russia and Tibet. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 5 March [1873].
Brandreth, E.L.Letter from E.J Passant, Foreign Office, to The Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, offering the donation of Richard Burton's Consular Hat and the walking stick presented to Burton in 1863 by the King of Dahomey. Typed, dated 11 August 1949.
Passant E J Historian, Author