Letter from Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Oriental, General and Artistic Printers, to The Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that they cannot give another estimate for the Centenary Supplement until they know the extent of the work.
Sans titreLetter from Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Oriental, General and Artistic Printers, to Professor D.S. Margoliouth to ask for a list of the order of the articles to be included, so they can number the plates correctly. They note 1500 copies are required and ask to be advised of the binding.
Sans titreLetter from Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Oriental, General and Artistic Printers, to The Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that they can now proceed with the make-up of the Centenary Supplement after having received definite instructions from Professor Margoliouth.
Sans titreLetter from Professor Margoliouth to Ella Sykes, Royal Asiatic Society, to suggest that copies of the Centenary Supplement should not be given to contributors who are not members. The gift of 25 deprints will discharge the Society's obligations.
Sans titreInvoice from Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Oriental, General and Artistic Printers, to Professor Margoliouth for production of the Royal Asiatic Society Centenary Supplement, total cost amounting to £343.12.3.
Sans titreLetter from Professor Margoliouth to Ella Sykes, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose Austin's bill for the Centenary Volume which exceeds all estimates by at least a third. He hopes some of the deficit can be recovered from authors and from sales but accepts that he must bear the bulk of the loss personally and therefore offers to pay £75 in two moieties.
Sans titreLetter from Stephen Herbert Langdon to Ella Sykes, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to suggest that the bill is returned to Austin and to ask for some explanation of the bill's excess.
Sans titreInvoice from Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Oriental, General and Artistic Printers, to the Royal Asiatic Society showing Centenary Volume Analysis of a/c (Blocks etc.) per author, amounting to £69.5.7.
Sans titreInvoices from Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Oriental, General and Artistic Printers, to the Royal Asiatic Society to show costs for Centenary Supplement charged on Journal basis totalling £387.6.3 and cost of Centenary Volume Composition printing £5.10. Also accompanying list of Authors' Corrections Analysis.
Sans titreReport on Bill for Centenary Supplement which details the estimates and agreements between Austins Printers and the Royal Asiatic Society, concluding that Austins had not overcharged for the work done. Signed W. Percival Yetts.
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