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Document number: 8755
Date: 19 Nov 1863
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: REDHOUSE James William
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 13th July 2007

Royal Asiatic Society,

5, New Burlington Street, W.

London, 19th Novr 1863

Dear Sir,

I have every hope that my successor will give great satisfaction to all interested in the Society. I am to be replaced by Dr Kost, of St. Augustine's, Canterbury. Mr Muir will, I doubt not, be very glad to hear this, if you should chance to see him. The suggestion was my own, as to the principle, and in view of benefit to the Society. It was caused by the clerkship becoming vacant, and I thought that by combining the salaries and the duties, it would give a living to a working scholar, who could devote five or six hours a day regularly to our business, which I cannot do, and part of the work of which is not to my taste.

The remaining half of vol. XX will now soon be out. I regret that its publication has become irregular. There was no valid reason for it in this case - procrastination alone - Your article is to appear, at last, as you left it, without notes from any one.

With next volume we begin with a new publisher and a new printer. Trübner & Co the former, Austin of Hertford the latter. The Council has the right to publish a volume yearly in two, three, or four, parts. Some do not like [ill. del.] their quarter-parts. I should prefer quarterly, or even monthly parts. But I must admit that contributions, whether from Members, or from others, do not come in to fill our pages regularly. I should not have been able to do as I did for two years, had it not been for Mr Marshman's papers, and they are not exactly what one would look for in our Journal; but I wished, above all, to establish regularity of publication, in hopes that writers would then be induced to support me.

I am very much obliged for your Kind expressions in respect of my retirement, and I feel sure you will continue your support and so facilitate for Dr Kost the maintenance of the Society in the high position it ought to occupy were sufficient countenance given to it.

Believe me, dear Sir, very truly yours,

J W Redhouse

H. F. Talbot, Esqre

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