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Letter from Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to Journal Editors to ask them to put the enclosed notice in the next number of their Journals. A copy of the notice is with the letter. Typed material with annotations listing the journals, 2 pieces, dated 19 January 1937.

Copy of a letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Professor R.A. Nicholson to ask, on behalf of the Council, his opinion concerning the Cunningham papers. He enclose Dr. Arberry's letter.

Copy of a letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Major J.R. Cunningham to thank him for the material, on behalf of the Council. He first apologises for the delay in responding because, "The offices have been closed for the Christmas Holidays, and have been rather deranged by A.R.P. measures and the necessity of sending our treasures away to a place of safety". He states the material, "will be placed, with great pleasure, in the Society's Library, where it will be of value to students, who will be interested in the great changes you have reported upon".

Copy of a letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr. Arberry to ask his advice concerning the Cunningham papers. He asks whether they are suitable for publication in the Society's Journal, though Major Cunningham has not requested it.

Letter from Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), Director of the Leiden Museum of Natural History, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to acknowledge and thank Hodgson for his gift of mammals and birds from Nepal. Handwritten in French, 3 sides, dated 18 December 1845.

Letter from Claude François Letondal to Thomas Manning in which he explains what he understands of Manning's character but how he is viewed by some as having religious motives for being in China and therefore he is unable to provide letters of recommendation. handwritten, 1 piece, 4 sides, with accompanying piece folded as an envelope. Also with this document is a translation from the French undertaken by Dr Martin Shipway, Birkbeck College.

Letter from Clare to Peter Skelton to update Skelton regarding specimen plates and proofs. With this letter is a further note to send specimens of the text and a sheet of comments on specimens for the Roxburghe Club Book. Letter dated: 16 February 1970, note dated: 23 February 1970.

Letter from Clara T. Pierson, Foreign Scholar Advisor, Cornell University, to congratulate Graham on his appointment as a Senior Fellow in the Society for the Humanities. She is enclosing a Certificate of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor Status and a duplicate of the form for him to keep (not present).

A letter expressing her sympathy to Patricia.

Letter from C.J. Child to Dennis J. Duncanson offering feedback regarding Duncanson's book, Government and Revolution in Vietnam. Child writes that the Foreign Office had questioned Duncanson's use of information gained during Duncanson's interviews with President Ngô Đình Diệm, while employed at the Foreign Office, within the book.