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Letter from Frits Staal to Angus Graham to thank him for the review Graham had written of his book on Exploring Mysticism, (Letter located with photocopies of Staal's "On Deploring Exploring Mysticism", a review of Staal's "Exploring Mysticism" by M Biardeau, and a draft "Ritual Syntax" (to be published in Sanskrit and Indian Studies. Essays in Honour of Daniel H.H. Ingalls; 1979), his "Ritual Structure: (to be published in AGNI. Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, 1980), photocopy of Staal's article "Oriental Ideas on the Origin of Language", JAOS 99 (1979), 1-14, and "The Meaninglessness of Ritual" (to be published in Numen 1979).)

Letter from Frits Staal to Angus Graham to thank him for sending the notes on Tao, the results of which he opposes with habituation. He gives some ideas regarding creating the notes into an academic article.

Letter from Freya Stark to the Royal Asiatic Society in which she thanks the Society for suggesting she become a member and would like to be. However she is "economising" in order to be able to travel to Saudi Arabia the following Autumn and does not feel she would be able to pay a subscription until the journey is complete. Annotation "We must remind her in Jan 1935".

Letter from Freya Stark to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, with which she sends her draft lecture (not present) and asks for any suggested alterations or improvements. She also asks to see examples of other Burton Memorial lectures.

Letter from Freya Stark to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to thank Hoysted for the message of sympathy that he sent. She writes from her hospital in Aden but will return to Italy for convalescence.

Letter from Freya Stark to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which she expresses her gratitude for the award and the invitation to lecture. She asks if she might be able to lecture before the end of October when she plans to travel to Saudi Arabia.

Letter from Freya Stark to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which she accepts the date for her lecture (October 25th 1934). She also discusses potential lecture subjects and asks that any inscription of her name read "Freya Stark".

Letter from Frederic J. Mouat to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which Mouat writes that he is sorry to have missed Hodgson. Mouat asks his opinion of the Paper for the Lords on Governance and Colonisation and Central Asia. He writes of Hodgson's long service in the region. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 31 March 1873. Also Accompanying envelope with Hodgson's annotations.

Letter from Frederic J. Mouat to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which Mouat writes that he received Hodgson's letter at midnight on his return from Wandsworth. He writes that he has become an Inspector for the Local Government Board for London and so will be busy all day and in the evening it is a meeting of the Statistical Society. Handwritten with embossed and printed letterhead, 3 sides, dated 18 March 1873.

Letter from Fred Rieman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, to Angus Graham to send some of his articles. Originally located with off-print of Rieman's "Kung-sun Lung, designated things, and Logic". Philosophy East and West 30.3 (1980), 305-319 (Graham Collection).