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Second Annual Report for the Christian Vernacular Education Society for India, published London, 1860. Soft bound pamphlet containing the report of the Society. Hodgson has added one annotation concerning the need for books, Printed material, 1 item, 1860.

"Occasional Paper No. VI: A Voice from Ceylon," Christian Vernacular Education Society for India, October 1860. Leaflet concerning how the need in Ceylon merits the Society's existence. Printed leaflet, 5 copies, dated October 1860.

"Testimonials in favour of the Christian Vernacular Education Society for India". Printed leaflet bearing testimonials concerning the Society. Two copies, one of which Hodgson had annotated. Dated 1860.

"Occasional Paper No. VII: Bible Education for India (A New Plan)", Christian Vernacular Education Society for India, August 1861. Printed leaflet concerning the aims of the Society with regards to Bible Education, 2 copies, dated August 1861.

Draft of Private Memoranda for His Grace the Duke of Argyll concerning trade with Central Asia. Consists of a letter addressed to the Duke from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; Memorandum of Measures for facilitating our Trade with Central Asia by B.H. Hodgson; and Memorandum on the facilitating our Commercial intercourse with eastern Turkestan by Robert B. Shaw. Printed sheet with handwritten Hodgson's annotations, 1 item, [1873].

"Memorandum of books, drawings, maps &c. presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Lieut.Col Doyle, 10th March 1834". The list is summarised as 187 books, 173 maps and plans, 18 Persian manuscripts and a large portfolio of drawings. Handwritten, 2 pieces, 6 sides.

List of Books and Manuscripts, bequest of General Thomas Gordon. The list itself bears no donor information but the Donations Register records this donation as being presented to the Society on 5 November 1841 and in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1843, p.xxix-xxxi, the list of books and manuscripts are detailed. This list is handwritten, 2 pieces, 4 sides.

Eleven letters pertaining to donations to the Society within this time period.

Letter from William Daniell to the Royal Asiatic Society to accompany a drawing of Ceylon which he had copied from an original of his brother's, Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). Letter dated January 20th, 1833. Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides. William and his uncle, Thomas Daniell, were commissioned to create the designs for the Society's seals, signet and medal.

Letter from William Newnham to the Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, London, accompanying a gift of a wooden model of "the Tomb in the Tower of Silence lately erected on the Island of Bombay", and the accompanying drawing and explanation of the ceremonies attending its erection and the reception of the Dead. The gift will be brought to the Society by his brother, Thomas Newnham. Dated 18th April 1833, handwritten, signature in a different hand to the letter, 1 piece, 4 sides.