1843.] Asiatic Society. 617* 



The Secretary stated, that in the month of January, the following letter 

 had been received from Government : — 



No. 1256. 



To H. Piddington, Esq. Officiating Secretary to the Asiatic Society, 

 General Department. 

 Sir, — I am directed to transmit to you, Extract from a Letter from the Hon'ble the 

 Court of Directors, No. 24 of 1842, dated 26th October, and copy of the letter from the 

 Austrian Ambassador therein referred to, respecting the researches of the late Mr. 

 Csoma DeKorbs on the origin of the Hungarians, and to request, that copies of the pa- 

 pers therein alluded to, may be forwarded to this Department, for transmission to His 

 Excellency. I am, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 H. V. Bayley, 

 Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 

 Fort William, the 18th December, 1842. 



Extract from Letter, No. 24 of 1842, from the Honorable the Court of Directors in 

 the Public Department, dated the 2Qth October. 



We enclose as a number in the packet, the copy of a Letter from the Austrian Am- 

 bassador, respecting the Researches of the late Mr. Csoma DeKorbs on the origin of 

 the Hungarians, and we desire, that the papers requested may be forwarded to us for 

 transmission to His Excellency. 



To the Secretary of the Honorable United East India Company. 



Sik, — My Government, to whom I transmitted the information which the Honor- 

 able Court of Directors of the East India Company was so kind as to forward to this 

 Embassy, concerning the death of Mr. Csoma DeKorbs, has recently expressed the 

 desire to obtain for the Library of the Transylvanian National Museum, those of the 

 papers (left by the deceased Traveller to the Asiatic Society in Calcutta,) which 

 contain Researches on the origin of the Hungarians, and which are therefore of a 

 particular interest for the above-mentioned Museum. 



I have therefore the honor to request you may express to the Honorable Court of 

 Directors, how much obliged the Transylvanian Authorities should feel, if by their 

 kind intercession the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, should allow a selection to be made 

 of those papers which so particularly concern Hungary, or copies duly legalized to be 

 taken from and forwarded afterwards to this Embassy. 1 have, &c. 



London, October 6th, 1842. (Signed) Neumadn. 



(True Copies,) H. V. Bayley, 



Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



This was sent to the Ecclesiastical Registrar of the Supreme Court for his 

 information and for a reply, but owing, first to the non-arrival of Mr. 

 DeCsoma's effects from Darjeeling, and latterly to the absence of Mr. 

 Turton from Calcutta, no answer had been obtained from him till now, 

 when the following was transmitted : — 



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