Correspondence and notes concerning the compilation of the index.

Letter from A D H Bivar to Godfrey Goodwin to explain how he has spent some time typing Head's index into the computer and to send a printout of the material. The printout is with the letter.

Letter from Betty Tyers, Indian Department, V&A Museum, to Raymond Head to inquire whether the list of Royal Asiatic Society loans to the Victoria and Albert Museum for the Society's sesquicentenary exhibition had arrived with Head. She also provides a list of the Society's loans to the British Museum that were also lent to the V&A for the sesquicentenary exhibition in October 1973. With the letter is its accompanying envelope.

Letter from Christopher Reynolds, School of Oriental and African Studies, to Raymond Head to give details of the paintings which Head had asked him to examine. He supplies references to where he has found information for Head to use. This letter has been cut into 4 pieces, only p.3 retaining its original length.

Letter from Dr J.E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw, Universiteit van Amsterdam, to Raymond Head, to thank him for his letter and xeroxes that he sent. She has been invited by the Government of Indonesia as a guest at the opening of Borobudur so will take the copies and hope to identify some of them on the spot. She will also take photos to contrast the present condition with the past drawings.

Letter from Elizabeth A Powis, Assistant Librarian, The Royal Institution, to Raymond Head to send information regarding the Egyptian mummy, belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society which was unrolled at the Royal Institute. She enclose a copy of the illustrations from the book "An Address on Embalming Generally, delivered at the Royal Institution on the Unrolling of a Mummy" by John Davidson. These illustrations are with the letter. She writes that she is also enclosing a copy of the Managers' Minutes concerning the lecture. This is not with the letter.

Letter from Geoff Salter, Hampshire County Library, to Raymond Head to enclose information regarding the pictures and articles that were in the house of George Staunton, Leigh Park House, Hampshire, in 1836. He asks whether any in the list match those in the Royal Asiatic Society's Collections. A photocopy of the list is with the letter. The list bears some handwritten annotations of items that are or were in the Society's Collections.

Letter from J F Ford to Raymond Head to thank him for sending a copy of the portrait of Jahangir. He sends details of where Head can find information that will help him and to give details of the Chinese writing on the picture and other information that might help.

Letter from J G Parker, Research Assistant, The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, to Raymond Head to inform which institutions hold papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson.

Letter from John Nankivell to Raymond Head to try to provide some potential sources for provenance of his two drawings in the Society's collections