Typed Letter Signed to Prof. S. Langdon (Oxford), with seven related items.

Bookseller (Oriental and India). All eight items with fold marks, but good condition. They relate to the publication of Sir John Marshall's (ed.) "Mohenjodaro and the Indus Civilisation" (3 vols., 1931), described by Probsthain himself in Andrew Block's "A Short History of the Principal London Antiquarian Booksellers" (1933): "[My] largest work . . . has for its subject the discovery of most ancient India . . . edited by Sir John Marshall, Director-General of Archaeology in India. [It] will prove a lasting work both on account of its disclosure and of the very careful work by the Archaeological Survey of India." ) (TLS) "It gives me great pleasure to send you my own proof copy of your chapter on the Indus Script and shall be glad if you will kindly make any alterations which you have in mind on this copy. They will be transferred to your own proof when it has been returned to me by Sir John Marshall. . . [return of chap.23 to above address]". With: Typed Letter Signed, one page, 4to, Sir John Marshall to Probsthain, Dec. 1931, suggesting that a photograph of himself might be useful in the publicity of the book, due out the following week, and he encloses some for that use; 3 samples of the blurb for the book, one page, each, 8vo, typescript; the supplement to the Contractual Agreement re. the book between Probsthain and the Secretary of State for India in Council, one page, folio, bifoliate (summary printed on its verso), signed by Probsthain and Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra and witnesses; and draft of the actual Agreement with substantial ms. corrections and additions (in Probsthain's hand), 3pp.; TLS, one page, folio, from , Zoological Survey of India, 17 March 1932, giving thanks for his copy, complimenting particualrly the reproductions of photographs.