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Includes copy letter from Rouse Ball to Herbert Allen Giles, 4 May 1913, asking whether he knows of a 'classical [Chinese] series of seven volumes of such diagrams [tangrams] with about 1000 diagrams in each volume', and whether there are any Chinese collections of tangrams in the British Museum or the Cambridge University Library. Giles's reply, 6 May 1913, is also included; he has never heard of anything like the seven-volume work, and having checked the catalogues of the British Museum and the University Library, can only find the 'small 2. vol. work' he mentioned to Rouse Ball or his wife 'long ago' (CUL F 126-129). Main text includes many examples of tangram figures, with page references for unnamed book.

University Library, Cambridge. - Library staff cannot locate Volume I of Philobiblon Society Miscellanies; remembers seeing Volume II on the mantelpiece of Mr Henn the former Under-Librarian who was very ill at the time; Wootton foes not remember ever having received the first volume.

University Library, Cambridge. - Houghton's letter to his predecessor of 26 Aug [1860? see also HOUG/D/E/2/30] offered to locate Volume I of the Philobiblon Miscellanies; requests this and other volumes missing from their series.

Proposals of Hobbs & Co. discussed under two headings: those referring 'to the protection of Cockerell's building' and those referring 'to the protection of the newer portion of the Library'. Cost of proposals given. Signatures of W. Aldis Wright, J. W. Clark, F. M. Balfour.