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Letter from the Editor of Nature to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to ask him to provide a paragraph concerning the presentation of the Gold Medal to Sir Denison Ross. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 10 May 1935.

Letter from Edith Christina Johnson, Professor of English, Wellesley College, USA to The Times literary Supplement regarding an article on "The Letters of Charles Lamb" refuting the suggestion that Thomas Manning's distinction was only in his friendship to Lamb. Dated 31 August 1946. Typed, 2 pieces, 2 sides

Letter from E.B.A. Craxton, Assistant Editor, St James Press, to Miss D. Crawford, RAS Secretary, to inform that the information on the Society's prizes was not within the scope of their publication. Typed with printed letterhead, 1 side, dated 26 February 1970.

Letter from East India House to President of the Royal Asiatic Society to send a copy of "the Narrative of Major Phayne's recent Mission to the Court of Ara with the annexed Reports exhibiting the geographical and geological features of Burmah, compiled by Captain Henry Yeale". Dated 26 March 1857, handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides.

Letter from East India House to Professor H.H. Wilson, President of Royal Asiatic Society, to send a copy of the first portion of the "Photographs of Drawings of Ancient Buildings at Bejapore, in the Deccan". Dated 22 April 1857, handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides.

Letter from East India House to Richard Clarke,Secretary to Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Court of Directors of the East India Company wish to donate the first volume of an edition of the Rig Veda Sanhita with Sanskrit Commentary by Sayanacharya, edited by Max Muller of Berlin, under the superintendence of H.H. Wilson. Dated 6th March, 1850, handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides.

Letter from East India House to Richard Clarke to forward a Copy of the Bombay Magnetical and Meteorological Observations for the year 1846, and a Copy of Magnetical Observations for 1847. Dated 10 April 1851, handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides.

Letter from East India House to Professor H.H. Wilson to forward a copy of "the Photographs of Drawings of Ancient Buildings at Beejapore in the Deccan". Dated 21 October, 1858, 1 piece, 2 sides.

Letter from Earl Attlee to Godfrey Godwin, Adviser to the Library, RAS, stating that he was unaware of his father's donation of Richard Burton's Consular Hat and stick. Typed, dated 24 February 1991.

Letter from E. V. Menzies, Royal Institute of International Affairs, to Dennis J. Duncanson to forward Ackerson's letter [DD/7/17].