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Letter from Edward Roberts, Editorial Assistant, Open Court Publishing Company, to Angus Graham to ask him to supply a photograph of himself for the cover of Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts.

Letter from Edward Richard Purefoy, Librarian, Royal Dublin Society, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his donation of his Catalogue of animals of Nepal. Printed letter with handwritten insertions, 1 side, dated 16 November 1864.

Letter from Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of Chicago, to Angus Graham to ask Graham whether he would consider writing a response to Professor Qiu Xigui's paper on oracle-bone inscription for a special edition of Early China.

Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to Bernard Quaritch in which he asks that Quaritch will get someone else to do the proofreading as he finds it difficult to do. He then complains regarding a comment that Quaritch had forwarded made by Mr Schultz Wilson's who had commented on the commercial statistics of his poem, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. He has also been upset by a personal notice published in America and hopes that nothing similar would be published in England. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 4 February 1876.

Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to Bernard Quaritch in which he writes concerning an article about his poem written by W Schultz Wilson. Fitzgerald writes that he does not know if he is at liberty to thank the article's author as his poem Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, had been published anonymously. He is staying at Lowestoft for a while and writes about seeing revisions of his work. Handwritten, 3 sides, with front of accompanying envelope attached, postmarked 2 March 1876.

Letter from Edward Colborne Baber to Brian Houghton Hodgson to send him a copy of his Travels and Researches. On the reverse of the title page he has written a dedication in the form of a sonnet which he submits to Hodgson for his indulgent criticism. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 7 June 1883.

Letter from Edward Byles Cowell to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for the list of Sanskrit Buddhist books that he had sent. He writes of Max Müller's interesting lecture on the Sukhāvatīvyūha found in Japan. He requests that Hodgson search for a copy of the Dharmakośa (a copy of the commentary on this text by Yaśomitra was already available in Cambridge) and writes of Cowell's lecture to students on the Lalitavistara (Hodgson finally found the text of Dharmakośa compiled by Amritananda Bandya of Patan in Nepal and has been published by the Royal Nepal Academy). Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 24 February 1880.

Letter from Edmund Taylor, Assistant to James Alexander, Treasurer, to G.H. Noehden, Secretary, regarding subscriptions and to inform Noehden that Mr Alexander expects to meet three 'intended auditors' on 24 February. (Found on Page 3)

Letter from Edmund Taylor, Assistant to James Alexander, Treasurer, to William Walker, Collector, to inform that the Treasurer is to meet the auditors and to report the same to Dr Noehden who is unwell. (Found on page 26)

Letter from Edmund Taylor, Assistant to James Alexander, Treasurer, to William Walker, Collector, to send receipts for payments and confirmation that he is to receive 4 shillings for contributions of 20 guineas and 3 shillings for contributions of 15 guineas. (Found on page 37)