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Letter from Diana Crawford, RAS Secretary, to Professor Henderson, passing on Gimson's message that Maharaj Kumar Priya Brata Singh might be a useful contact to make in regards to the study of ancient Manipur script and language, with further handwritten notes, presumably by Crawford, on the contact information of Priya Brata Singh and a Dr T. M. Singh, Manipuri in the UK.

Letter from Christopher Gimson to RAS Secretary to say that he will bring ‘Chin-Lushai Land’ or ‘A Fly on the Wheel’ when he visits the Society. He asks for any updates from Professor Henderson about progress in the study of the old Manipuri language and script. With reply from Diana Crawford, RAS Secretary. Two letters, dated 9–13 June 1967.

Letter from RAS Secretary to Christopher Gimson, asking whether he wants the photographs he left be returned. With Gimson’s reply to say that the Society can keep them, and that he is interested in what the experts can make of them. He further asks for updates from Professor Henderson.

With the letters are two typed copy letters from Gimson to P. B. Singh [Maharaj Kumar Priya Brata Singh] regarding 1) an article on a gold coin of Gambhir Singh and 2) Jhalajit Singh’s translation of ‘Cheethawl tumbaba’ and his book on the history of Manipuri literature, dated 7 April–1 June 1967, as well as three b/w photographs depicting some vessels and a [chicken-shaped] object, stamped by the Publicity Department of the Government of Manipur.

The papers of Ulla Johansen contains a scanned typescript of her habilitation thesis entitled Die Schamanentrache bei den Tuvanern. Vorschläge zur Methodik der Schamanismusforschung written in 1968. The work is described as a study of shaman costume in Tuva and the wider region in Siberia and Mongolia. The typescript is stored on a CD but a digital copy has been made.

Stored with the CD is a printed email from Peter A. Andrews to Alison Ohta, RAS Director, explaining the context and the scanning of the work and donating it to the Society for preservation and use by researchers, dated 6 July 2024.

The papers of Papers of Betty Heimann contain her annotated typescript entitled 'Hindu Thought in Illustrations, a Primer in Indian Philosophy', a study of the concepts and systems of Hindu philosophy using visual aids which remains unpublished. The typescript contains two versions of the work. The first version, containing 96 pages and a preface dated March 1952, appears to be more complete and is interleaved with colour illustrations. Additionally, there is a set of photostat copies of the illustrations bearing the RAS stamp at the back.

An accompanying note states that the papers were received from Dr Ruth Gaevernitz on loan in 1967. There is a further letter from Gaevernitz to the Society in 1974 expressing their wish of having the book published as a whole, and that the Society should contact them if approached by a publisher.

Letter from C.A. Storey to Vladimir Minorsky to thank him for the presentation list and his further suggestions. With this is a Review and Presentation List - list in Storey's hand with annotations.

Letter from R.A. Nicholson for C.A. Storey to state that he approves of the five additions suggested by Minorsky to be added to the Presentation List but feels that Minorsky should not see the Presentation List.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to inform him that Luzac & Co. have received pressing letters from the Turkish Embassy for a copy of the Mathnawi Vol. VI. A representative from Luzac will go to Cambridge next Monday to find the volume and others that Luzac require.

Letter from C.A. Storey to Luzac & Co. to send them the Presentation List for the new volume of the Gibb Memorial Service. They should not let anyone see it other than the trustees. He suggests they now receive 150 copies rather than 100 in order to cover the ones needed to be sent to those on the Presentation list.

Letter from Luzac & Co. to C.A. Storey to thank Storey for the presentation list. The volumes will be despatched to those on the list the following week. The list will be returned to Storey as soon as possible. They have ordered, from Tehran, the Diwan i-Bābā.