ABSTRACT
The first response to this request was received in February 1921 when Major H. L. Haughton of the 36th Sikhs donated a Chinese currency note of the reign of the Emperor Hung Wu, the first ruler of the Ming dynasty. This was followed by a trickle of a dozen or so books. The first substantial gift of 152 books, together with a bookcase, was made by Lady Trotter from the estate of her late husband, Sir Henry Trotter, who had been the Society’s Chairman from 1917 to 1919; and the second a contribution from Sir Percy Sykes, which included an autographed copy of Dr Wolff’s A Mission to Bokhara 1843-45.
