File RAS GOV4/265 - Letter from Richard Clarke to James Cosmo Melvill, 20 November 1851

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GB 891 RAS GOV4-RAS GOV4/265

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Letter from Richard Clarke to James Cosmo Melvill, 20 November 1851

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  • 20th Nov 1851 (Creation)

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Name of creator

(1823-)

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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

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Scope and content

Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Secretary, East India Company to acknowledge receipt, with thanks, of specimens of raw material from India. (Found on page 152)

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  • English

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