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Mr. Beanies said that if it were decided to publish the poems, he 

 should be happy to undertake the editing of the work. 



The Secretary read the following letter to the Principal of the 

 Agra College, which had been written in consequence of Mr. Long's 

 motion, together with the reply. 



No. 60. 

 To the Principal of the Agra College, Agra. 



Asiatic Society's Room, Calcutta, e ZSth January, 1867. 

 Sir, — The Kev. J Long having brought to the notice of the Asiatic 

 Society that there is a MS. of the Poems of Chand in the Library of the 

 Agra College, I am directed to request you will be good enough to 

 allow the Council the loan of that work for a lew days, in order that 

 it may be examined, and an analysis of its contents prepared by the 

 Philological Committee of the Society. Every care will be taken 

 of the book while in the possession of the Society, and it will be 

 returned to you by an early opportunity. 



I have, &c. &c. 



(Sd.) Kajendra Lala Mitra, 



Secy. As. Society. 

 No. 318 of the 1867-68. 

 From the Principal, Government College, Agra. 

 To the Secretary, Asiatic Society, Philological Department, Calcutta. 

 Sir, — Your letter No. 60, dated 28th January last, to which you 

 call attention in No. 20, of 22nd January, 1868, has never reached 

 this office. 



The Manuscript, which you wish to borrow, is so valuable a one, that 

 without the authority of the Government N. W. P. I should not like 

 to trust it to the railway for transmission. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) H. Deigiiton, 



Principal, Government College. 

 Agra College, the 30th January, 1868. 



Mr. Long then proposed that the Government N. W. P. be asked 

 to appoint a scholar to give a full report upon the copy of Chand 

 Bardi's poems in the Agra College, and to permit a copy to be 

 made for the Society. 



