Correspondence with Dr Reinhold Rost (1822–1896). Rost was a German orientalist, who worked for most of his life at St Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury in England. Five letters of correspondence between Reinhold Rost and Brian Houghton Hodgson dating to the period, 1868-1873.

Letter from Dr Reinhold Rost to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes that there is only one man in Europe who could provide the translation into Tibetan that Hodgson requires - Rev H.A. Jäschke, a Moravian missionary. Handwritten, 1 sides dated 7 April 1873. Also accompanying envelope which Hodgson has annotated concerning the sender and subject matter.