618* Asiatic Society. [No. 139. 



Estate of Mr. Alexander Csoma DeKoros' Deed. 

 To H. PiddingTon, Esq. Officiating Secretary to the Bengal Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — With reference to the letter to your address from the Deputy Secretary to the 

 Government of Bengal, No. 1256, dated 28th December 1842, together with an extract 

 of one from the Honorable the Court of Directors No. 24 of 1842, dated 26th October 

 preceding, and copy of the letter from the Austrian Ambassador thereto subjoined, 

 respecting the estate of the late Mr. Alexander Csoma DeKoros, Librarian of the 

 Bengal Asiatic Society, left by you at my office sometime ago, for the purpose of my 

 furnishing you with the information therein referred to, I have to apologize for my not 

 having earlier replied to it, having been left at my office when I was much engaged, 

 and it subsequently escaped my recollection, from no letter from you accompanying it. * 



I now beg to acquaint you, that 1 have since received a communication from the 

 Government of India in the Foreign Department on the subject through their Attorney, 

 and I beg to forward here with a copy of my reply thereto, which will put you in 

 possession of all the information that I possess on the subject, and which I have fur- 

 nished to the Government. I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 



Thos. E. M. Turton, 

 Registrar and Administrator. 

 Calcutta, Supreme Court, Regr's. Office, 3rd July, 1843. 



Estate of Mr. Alexander Csoma DeKoros' Deed. 

 To T. B. Swinhoe, Esq. 



Attorney to the East India Company. 



Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt to your letter of the 2nd instant, 

 forwarding to me therewith, copies of one to your address from the Officiating Se- 

 cretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, dated 24th ultimo, and 

 of an extract from a despatch, from the Honorable the Court of Directors, dated 22nd 

 March, No. 6 of 1843, regarding the estate of the late Mr. Alexander Csoma 

 DeKoros, Librarian of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and requesting me to furnish you 

 with the documents therein referred to, in the manner required. 



In reply, I beg to state for the information of the Government of India, that the 

 event of the death of Mr. DeKoros having been reported to me as Ecclesiastical Re- 

 gistrar of Her Majesty's Supreme Court, I applied for and obtained letters of ad- 

 ministration to his estate as in case of intestacy, and under and by virtue thereof, took 

 charge of the Government Securities which remained in the hands of the Government 

 Agent of this Presidency. 



Mr. DeKoros having died at Darjeeling, the Superintendent of the station took 

 charge of his effects, and did, under the direction of the Government, make over the 

 same to me as administrator to the estate. 



In June last year, Mr. Henry Torrens, as Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Ben- 

 gal, addressed me a letter, handing to me therewith one in original to his address, 

 from the late Mr. DeKoros, dated Calcutta, 9th February, 1842, and making an en- 

 quiry whether I, as administrator of Mr. DeKoros, with the full consent of the Socie- 



* There is some misimpression here on one or the other side, but of no great moment : either a 

 letter was sent, or the paper was left by me personally.— H. P. 



