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Letter from Henry Guppy, Librarian of the John Rylands Library in Manchester, to Charles Ambrose Storey to respond to Storey enquiry concerning Nathaniel Bland and inform which manuscripts the Library holds associated with Bland.

Letter from Henry Guerlac, Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, to Angus Graham to answer questions raised about Graham's visit to Cornell. He discusses medical cover, travel costs, seminars and accommodation.

Letter from Henry Guerlac, Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, to Angus Graham as his formal letter of appointment as a Senior Fellow of the Society for the Humanities. He provides the dates of the appointment and the grant he will receive. He will be expected to give formal seminars and informal teaching and he will be expected to be present from the week of September 4-9.

Letter from Henry Guerlac, Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, to Angus Graham to ask him what kind of accommodation he might need during his stay as a Senior Fellow in 1972-73. He also asks for a description of the seminars Graham might deliver. He encloses a description of seminars given that year. With the letter there is a small printed note with titles and descriptions of two of Graham's seminars.

Letter from Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian, British Museum, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to acknowledge receipt through Major General Scott of Hodgson's work on the importance of the vernacular languages in education. Handwritten, 1 side, dated 18 December 1855.

Letter from Henry Cousens to Miss Hughes, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to send to the Society photographs that had belonged to Dr Burgess, including prints of the sculptures of the Great Sanchi stupa, the Caves of Western India, Gandhara sculptures and the Amaravati Marbles at the Madras Museum. Handwritten letter.

Letter from Henry Beveridge to Oliver Codrington, Honorary Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society, in which he writes about corrections and variations in translations of the Memoirs of Jahāngīr. Handwritten, with printed letterhead, "Pitfold, Shottermill, Haslemere", 1 piece, 4 sides, dated 24 September 1909.

Letter from Henry Beveridge to Charlotte Hughes, Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, in which he writes that he is enclosing the remainder of Alexander Rogers' manuscript. He writes that he has not had the last years typewritten but has corrected Rogers' translation. he writes that he feels that Rogers' Manuscript could now be destroyed as the account of the first 12 years has now been published. Beveridge suggests however that the manuscript for the years 19-22 should be kept as if may be useful in future years. Handwritten with printed letterhead, "Pitfold, Shottermill, Haslemere", 2 pieces, 5 pages, dated 5 May 1909.

Letter from Henry Beveridge to Charlotte Hughes, Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, in which he writes that he has now corrected the last galley proofs of Rogers' translation of the 12th year of the Memoirs of Jahāngīr to complete the first volume. He writes that the index is also nearly completed. He is also sending the 13th, 14th and part of the 15th years and will send more when he has received the type-written pages from Miss Pitherbridge. He writes that the translation need not go further than the 19th year. Beveridge also writes about some corrections that he has made to the translation. Handwritten letter with printed letterhead "Pitfold, Shottermill, Haslemere, R.S.O.", 2 pieces, 8 sides, dated 3 March 1909.

Letter from Helen Wallis, British Museum Map Room, to Terence Armstrong. The British Museum had been unable to trace a photographic order for Allen's book 'Russian Embassies to Georgian Kings'. Therefore they ask that it be resubmitted. Dated: 8 January 1968.