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A letter expressing their sympathy to Patricia. George writes of how Stuart made his time in the S.E. Asia Department be the golden years of his career.

Letter from George Allman, Museum of Natural History, Edinburgh, to thank Hodgson for the donation of his catalogue of animals to the library. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 31 January 1865.

Letter from George Allen & Unwin Limited, Publishers & Exporters, to The Secretary, China Society, to ask for a list of members of the Society to which they could advertise a recent publication on the Japanese population question.

Letter from George A. Sansome, Editorial Representative, London and Provincial Newpapers, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, in which he asks, as a journalist commissioned by the London Editorial Services to obtain an interview with Freya Stark, for her address.

Letter from Professor Georg Morgenstierne, President of International Union of Orientalists, to President, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the next General Assembly of the Union would be held at the International Congress of Orientalists in New Delhi on 6 January 1964, and to ask for the Society to nominate a representative. A handwritten copy of the reply has been added to this letter stating that the Society has nominated Dr Allchin, who has succeeded Dr Sinor.

Sympathy card on hearing of Stuart's death.

Letter from Geoffrey Scott Mowat to Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary to submit his essay and express his regret that sailing conditions prevented him from posting it earlier. He asks that if it is rejected would they please return the essay in the enclosed envelope. Typed, 1 side dated 28 August 1940. With this letter is a letter from T.S. Wetherall, Dean and Chaplain, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to add his explanation for the delay in receipt of the essay. Handwritten, 1 side, dated 9 October 1940.

Letter from Geoffrey Lloyd, Darwin College, Cambridge, to Professor and Mrs Graham to invite them to a small dinner party in Graham's honour after a seminar at Darwin College.

Letter from Geoff Salter, Hampshire County Library, to Raymond Head to enclose information regarding the pictures and articles that were in the house of George Staunton, Leigh Park House, Hampshire, in 1836. He asks whether any in the list match those in the Royal Asiatic Society's Collections. A photocopy of the list is with the letter. The list bears some handwritten annotations of items that are or were in the Society's Collections.

Letter from General Benjamin Forbes Gordon to Captain Henry Harkness, Royal Asiatic Society Secretary, concerning the donation, from his daughter, Maria Forbes, of two drawings by a Maltese artist, one of a Phoenician temple ruin on Island of Gozo; the second a copy of one of Newnham's Antiquities of Ireland. Dated Malta 11th April, 1834, 1 piece, 4 sides.