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ion on them. If you agree to receive them can you please suggest the safest way for the Society to send them to you.

Meanwhile the two fragments have been photographed in the Museum of Chinese Art at the University and one positive copy (enlarged to the size of the original) has been made of each section of the Tibetan text and of the one section of the Chinese text and these photographs have been given to Mr. Nixon. The negatives remain in the possession of the Department of Chinese at the University.

Yours sincerely,

sgd.)

J. L. Cranmer-Byng

Senior Lecturer in History, University of Hong Kong
Hon. Editor, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

cc: Mr. F. A. Nixon, O.B.E.

Hong Kong Club
Hong Kong

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J. L. Cranmer-Byng, Esq., Department of History, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG.

Department of Oriental Printed
Books & MSS., British Museum, LONDON, W.C.1.

26th July 1963

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