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Read the following letter from the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society 

 of London: — 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. 

 Dear Sir,— I have had the pleasure to receive, through Messrs. W. H. Allen 

 and Co. your letter of the llth May, enclosing a Bill of Exchange for ^21, the 

 amount of two years' Subscription of your Society to the Oriental Translation 

 Fund. As Messrs. Allen and Co. have paid the Subscriptions for 1842 and 1843, 

 the amount of your Bill shall be duly credited to your Society for the years 

 1844 and 1845. 



With .thanks for your obliging attention to my request for a remittance, 



I have the honor to remain, Dear Sir, 

 London, 14, Grafton Street, Bond Street, Your's truly, 



llth July, 1843. James Reynolds, 



Secretary. 



Read the following letter from the Society's Booksellers and Agents, 

 Messrs. Allen and Co. : — 



To H. Torrens, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, — We have received your letter of the llth May, informing us of your having 

 resumed the duties of Secretary to the Asiatic Society, upon which we congratulate 

 you. By the enclosed letter you will observe, that we have paid ^£21 to the 

 Rev. James Reynolds, on account of the Subscription of the Society to the 

 Oriental Translation Fund for the years 1842 and 1843. We shall be obliged by your 

 attention to o.ur letters of 29th April, and 17th and 30th June last, addressed to 

 Mr. Piddington, as Secretary to the Society. We are, Sir, 



Your most obedient Servants, 

 London, July 31, 1843. Wm. H. Allen & Co. 



Read the following letter from Mr. John Murray, son and successor of 

 Mr. John Murray, of Albemarle Street, London :— 



Sir,— Among the numerous accounts of Books which, in succeeding to the business of my late 

 father, I have caused to be made out, is that of the Royal Asiatic Society,* and I now forward you 

 a copy of it from ] 834, when it was last settled. The balance due to the Society shall be paid as 

 you direct, as soon as you furnish me with the authority for so doing, and enable me to obtain a 

 receipt. 



I have to call your attention to the very slow and partial sale of the Transactions for some 

 years past, and to suggest that, if you were to place the work in the hands of some publisher more 

 intimately connected with India, the interests of the Society might be more surely advanced. 

 I have to request you to take this into consideration, and to authorize me to deliver over the stock 

 now in my warehouse to such Agent as you may appoint. As I anticipate removing my ware- 

 house shortly, it would be very convenient to me to resign this charge, which I feel to have been 

 an honor.— From some error in our enumeration, we paid the Society for certain copies of Vol. 

 VII, which we now find are still in our hands. I remain, Sir, 



Albemarle Street, August 4. Your obedient Servant, 



J. Murray. 



* So in MSS. the common mistake of confounding the Asiatic Society of Bengal, with the Royal 

 Asiatic Society of London. 



