No. 3. 



Darjeelincj, 8th Nov., 1875. 

 Mt dear Wood-Mason, 



I duly received your letter of 24tli Au- 

 gust, 1875, and as I had other grounds for knowing that the 

 statenient in it is true, and that consequently the statement of 

 the Asiatic Council to me conveyed by their Secretary's No. 336 

 of 2nd August, 1875, is not true, I laid the papers before a friend 

 of high position and experienced judgment ; and now with his 

 approval beg you to communicate to the Asiatic Council that I 

 have withdrawn from the Society. In communicating this to 

 the Council on my behalf, I trast you will make it clear to the 

 Council that I do not in any way deny their right to reject any 

 paper offered for publication, giving no reasons whatever for 

 such rejection. 



Yours very truly, 



C. B. Clarke. 

 No. 4. 

 No. 663, Asiatic Society's Rooms; 

 Calcutta, lOth Dec, 1875. 

 C. B. Clarke, Esq., 



Darjeeling. 

 My dear Sir, 



In reply to your letter of the 8th November I am 

 dh-ected by the Council to expi^ess their regret, that you should 

 wish to withdraw from the Society on account of the non-accept- 

 ance of your paper. 



I am further to state that the Council were aware of your 

 offer to pay the cost of publication, but they never entertained 

 the idea of charging you or any body else for the printing of an 

 article published in the Journal for which the Society annually 

 passes a fixed sum. Now, when you forwarded your Monograph 

 to the Council, one of the conditions of printing made by you 

 was that the whole should appear together ; and as doing so 

 would have nearly swallowed up the whole of the sum sanc- 

 tioned for the Journal for this or any year, the Council in- 

 formed you that they could not afford the expense of printing 

 your Monograph. Further, they were aware from your letter 

 that their non-acceptance of the paper would have no influence 

 in depriving of it the public interested in such matters, as you 



