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An exhibition "Richard Johnson (1753-1807), Nabob, Collector and Scholar" was held at the India Office Library, mounted for the Sesquicentenary of the Royal Asiatic Society. The material in connection with this exhibition is:

• Exhibition catalogue for the Exhibition held in the Conference Room, 197 Blackfriars Road, from 1 August 1973, 2 copies.
• Letter from J. Lancaster, India Office Library, to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to invite members of the Society to an evening reception to view the Exhibition, dated 24 August 1973.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Joan Lancaster, India Office Library, to thank her for the hospitality shown on the occasion of the Society's visit to the Exhibition, dated 5 December 1973.
• Guest List for "Reception for the Royal Asiatic Society - 28 November 1973".

"List of MSS Presented by Mr. Hodgson to the India Office Library, August 1864". Printed pamphlet listing all the manuscripts that Hodgson donated to the India Office Library. Printed material with some annotations, dated August 1864.

Loans and Disposals 1931-1935. Correspondence and a typed list of items that have been loaned or disposed with from the Society's Collections in the period 1931-1934. This is a more modern list - it is unknown when it was created, 2 pages.

The correspondence is:

• Three letters concerning the transfer of a packet of Papers of Robert Needham Cust to the School of Oriental and African Studies. Three typed letters, dated 27 July - 29 July 1932.
• Letter from the National Central Library to Royal Asiatic Society thanking for the two books given to the Society. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 27 October 1932.
• Letter from L.D. Barnett to Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to send the papers relating to the sale of the Society's anthropological collections. The papers are not with the letter. Typed, 1 piece, dated 19 November 1935.
• Three letters concerning the transfer from the Royal Asiatic Society to the Library, India Office, of a manuscript letter and report from J.J. Walker to Sir George T. Staunton, dated Fuhchow 1847. dated 14 November 1935- 23 June 1937.

Letter from Miss J.C. Lancaster, Deputy Librarian and Deputy Keeper of the Records, India Office Library, to Miss Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to say they would be happy to accept volumes of the Hog Hunters Annual missing from their collections and possibly those of the Meerut Tentpeggers' Club also.

The Papers of Charles Ambrose Storey are mainly concerned with gathering material for his research into Persian Literature. They include his own notes and draft publications and additional notes by people who subsequently worked with his research.

The correspondence contains letters concerned with publishing, with his research and work at the India Office Library and the University of Cambridge and more personal letters.

Correspondence and reports primarily concerned with Storey cataloguing manuscripts in the India Office Library collections.

India Office Library Annual Report for the Financial Year 1927-8. Printed report giving details of the Library's activities, written by Charles Ambrose Storey, dated 21 January 1929.

Further correspondence and lists from Arthur John Arberry, Assistant Librarian, and V. Nicolas, India Office Library, to Charles Ambrose Storey concerning manuscripts for Storey to catalogue.

Further correspondence and lists from Arthur John Arberry, Assistant Librarian, and V. Nicolas, India Office Library, to Charles Ambrose Storey concerning manuscripts for Storey to catalogue.