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Letter from Curzon Press to Dorothy C. Wales to inform her that they are searching the second hand market for a copy of 'Siamese State Ceremonies'. In the meantime they will take great care of her copy. He informs her that he considers the estimate to be reasonable and that he would be happy to proceed with a reprint if she would cover the costs of £3000 for 500 copies. Typed, 1 side, dated 11 May 1992.

Letter from Curzon Press to Mrs Dorothy C. Wales concerning the copying of Siamese State Ceremonies. Curzon had obtained a copy of the book on loan from SOAS which might be possible to photograph but asked Mrs Wales whether she might request a copy from the Royal Asiatic Society. The letter is incomplete. Typed, 1 side, dated 10 March 1992.

Letter from Malcolm Campbell, Curzon Press, to Dorothy C. Wales to send an estimate for the reprint of 'Siamese State Ceremonies' including the supplementary notes. Typed with 2 photocopied sheets of the estimate, 3 pieces, dated 1 April 1992.

Letter from Crouzet, Membre associé de l'Institue national, en Proviseur du Prytanée Francais, to Thomas Manning thanking him for his message and informing Manning regarding Monsieur Thompson's visit to Crouzet. He sends his regards to Madame Latour [Faurensue] and for passing a message about her son. Dated 21 Brumaire an 13 (12 November 1804) Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides

Letter from [Colvin] to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes that the article in the Edinburgh was written by Mr Myers, at Pekin. Colvin must attend a friend's funeral mass and that he will not be able to call on Hodgson on the following day. Handwritten with printed letterhead, 3 sides, dated by Hodgson (on envelope) 6 May 1873. Also accompanying envelope with Hodgson's annotations.

Letter from Colonel H.S. Osborne to William Huttman, RAS Secretary, to donate specimens of Malayalam writing, a model of a Chinese passage boat and Chinese material from Macao, found in 1822. Dated 28th February, 1828,(with further label dating at 1 March 1828), handwritten, 1 piece, 3 sides.

Note from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to unnamed recipient to send an advance copy of the lecture and to ask for its transcript.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to The Secretary and Editor, Institution of Royal Engineers, to send notification of the award of the Burton Memorial Medal to John Glubb for possible inclusion in the Royal Engineers' Journal.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India to enclose information needed for the speech required by the Secretary of State at the Presentation of the Medal and to explain the order of proceedings. With the letter is a biography of Aurel Stein prepared by Professor F.W. Thomas. Typed, dated 10 June 1932.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to the Press Association in which he announces the presentation of the Medal to Bertram Thomas and that Thomas has agreed to deliver the Memorial Lecture when he comes to England.