File RAS GOV4/323 - Letter from Richard Clarke to James Cosmo Melvill, 9 May 1854

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GB 891 RAS GOV4-RAS GOV4/323

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Letter from Richard Clarke to James Cosmo Melvill, 9 May 1854

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  • 9th May 1854 (Creation)

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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, England

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Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Secretary, East India Company, to inform that the Royal Asiatic Society has a number of copies of a work on Oriental Architecture by 'a learned native of Madras' which the Council would like the Court to accept for their library and for distribution 'at the pleasure of the Court'. (Found on page 189)

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