A bound typed copy of A Catalogue of the Paintings and Drawings in the Royal Asiatic Society with handwritten annotations. 486 pages within a green hardback binding, 342 x 224 mm.

Correspondence from John Hadfield, The Cupid Press, regarding the use of the portrait of Thomas Manning for a forthcoming biography of Charles Lamb by Lord David Cecil. The letters are:

• Letter from John Hadfield to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask for permission to reproduce the portrait in David Cecil's book, 19 August 1982
• Letter from John Hadfield to Raymond Head concerning a bust of Thomas Manning and Raymond Head's forthcoming exploratory visit to Diss. He writes of the poor condition of the portrait. He would rather use a picture of the bust if it can be located. Dated 20 September 1982.
• Letter from John Hadfield to Raymond Head to give more details of what he felt was wrong with the portrait - that the use of bitumen varnish has caused the ridges and cracks. He felt that if the varnish was removed no other repair or restoration would be needed. Dated 24 September 1982.
• Letter from John Hadfield to Raymond Head to say he is unhappy to reproduce the portrait of Manning from an existing negative but would prefer the item to be cleaned and re-photographed. He also writes that he he has heard from Anne Lonsdale that there is a bust of Manning in the Society and asks whether he can locate it. Dated 12 October 1982.
• Letter from John Hadfield to Raymond Head to formally ask permission for his photographer to take photographs of the bust of Thomas Manning. He gives the name of the photographer, Derrick E. Witty, and that the Society would be able to keep the negatives. He also talks about the cost of reproduction costs for the portrait. Dated 21 October 1982.
• Letter from John Hadfield to Raymond Head to say that he had cancelled the photographer after finding a clear photogravure of the bust in a copy of "The Letters of Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb" in the London Library. Dated 28 October 1982.

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.

Correspondence with British Library concerning Burmese place names. These are:

• Letter from Henry G to Raymond Head to say he will leave the Burmese place names with Patricia Herbert and to provide some Thai spellings. Handwritten, dated 21 December 1983.
• Letter from Patricia Herbert to Raymond Head to apologise for the delay in replying to him and to regret her inability to locate the place names. She asks him to correct one of his entries which attributes a manuscript to the British Museum and not the British Library. Typed, dated 1 March 1984.

Letter from John Nicoll, Yale University Press, to Raymond Head to inform him that the Press would be unable to publish the catalogue. With the letter is a 2 page proposal for the Catalogue.

Email from Dipti Khera to Kathy Lazenblatt and Alice McEwan, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose an email from Raymond Head on the portrait of Maharana Bheem Sing (Head cat.037.001).

A handwritten list giving numbers and titles to artworks not in Head's catalogue.

These Papers were all produced in the compiling of the A Catalogue of the Paintings and Drawings in the Royal Asiatic Society, London. which was published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1991. The material includes a manuscript proof, correspondence connected to the artworks of the Society, correspondence and lists for compiling the index, and notes and articles which Head collected and collated during his research.

Correspondence with Raymond Head mainly concerned with identification of artworks in the Society's Collections.

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.