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in procuring eligible persons for the task, and to take part in its superin- 

 tendence, and they will engage to publish the translations free of expense 

 either in their own Journal, or in that of the Parent Society. 



Should the Honorable Court deem it expedient to transmit only a por- 

 tion of the manuscripts in the first instance, the Committee would suggest, 

 that the works mentioned in the accompanying list should be selected for 

 the purpose. 



Lit£hary Society, ^ I have the honor to be, &c. 



College, i (Signed) J. M in chin, 



23d September, 1813. 3 Secretary 31. L. S, $p. 



3Iemorandum by Mr, C. P. Brown, on the MSS. in the East India 

 House Library. — When I was in England seven years ago, I framed cata- 

 logues of the manuscripts lying in the East India House Library. I mean 

 those manuscripts which were in the Telugu, Canarese, and Tamil cha- 

 racters, which had laid unexamined and uncatalogued, some for twenty, 

 others for forty years. As it is now proposed to send a portion of these • 

 books to Madras, I have been desired to specify those volumes, which may 

 as well be left in Leadenhall Street : we having those works in plenty 

 at Madras. 



Accordingly all the collection should be forwarded to Madras, excepting 

 the volumes noted in the following Memorandum.* 



All the remaining numbers in the three lists should now be forwarded 

 to Madras for examination. About one half of them are without title- 

 pages, and for this reason are left unnamed in the catalogues I drew up. 

 On these books being received at Madras, Natives will easily affix the 

 proper title-pages: and then we may be able to select a large proportion 

 to be immediately returned to London, because superfluous here. 



The selection made in the present pages may enable the Librarians in 

 England to retain the volumes here noted: but these will be retained as 

 mere useless curiosities. I should certainly advise the transmission of 

 the entire series to Madras without selection. 



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And that for an obvious reason, in examining the books it will be 

 requisite to arrange them anew, in a more correct catalogue, and for this 

 reason it is desirable that the entire collection should be examined simul- 

 taneously. 



2d September, 1843. (Signed) C. P. BftoWN. 



• The Memorandum only .specified the numbers not the titles of the books, and hat 

 therefore been omitted. 



