Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Lt. Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson to inform, that at the Anniversary General Meeting on 15 May, he was unanimously elected as a Vice President of the Society for three years. (Found on page 258)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Lord Viscount Strangford and Sir Edward Colebrooke to request that, due to the deaths of the Society's President, Professor H.H. Wilson and of W. Morley, Sir Edward is asked to become President in conjunction with Lord Strangford. (Found on page 281)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Lord Stanley to inform that he has been unanimously elected as a resident Member of the Society. He is sent details of meetings as well as details of dues owed by members on election. (Found on page 264)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Lord Stanley to enclose a memorandum addressed to First Lord of Treasury. The good offices of Lord Stanley, as Vice Patron, are requested to help the Society, made difficult because of the limited means of Society, to 'pay a large outlay for house rents'. (Found on page 263)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris to Lord Stanley, MP, Secretary of State for India, to inform that as India Secretary he is ex-officio a Vice-Patron of the Society and it is hoped that he will accept this invitation. He is sent the Regulations and a list of the members of the Society. (Found on page 260)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Kali Prasno Sing, Calcutta, to thank for the Bengali translations of 'Sanscrit dramas of Machlati' and more particularly for the drama founded on an episode of the Mahabharata composed in Bengali. The Society was pleased to hear of the completion of his translation of the whole of the Mahabharata and regrets that few people in England can appreciate his work in Bengali. (Found on page 272)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to John H. Hickcox, Secretary, New York State Library, concerning an agreement for an exchange of publications. Though the New York State Library had agreed to send 18 volumes of the 'Natural History of New York', they have not been received. The letter recommends that they should be sent to a Mr Stevens, at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar Square. (Found on page 231)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to J.F. Rowbotham, Manchester Exhibition, regarding objects to be loaned for the Manchester Exhibition, all that is required is a 'moral' guarantee in the form of a letter addressed to Society. (Found on page 240)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Murray, Foreign Office, in which, through Murray, Lord John Russell's is thanked for the diary of 'General Bartholomey's journeys through the districts of Caucasia' printed in Tiflis in 1853. (Found on page 272)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLetter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Fergusson to thank for a cast of an Indian Inscription given by the Crystal Palace Company (Fergusson was director of the company at this time). (Found on page 236)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland