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↑ Up one levelLetter from Yumjao Singh to William Pettigrew, 29 June 1937
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GB 891 WP-WP/4-WP/4/1-WP/4/1/27
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1 letter
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- 29 June 1937 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Yumjao Singh
(1869-1943)
Biographical history
Yumjao Singh was in charge of the state printing press of Manipur. In the early 1930s, he worked as an assistant of William Pettigrew conducting research on archaic Manipuri.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
Letter from Yumjao Singh to William Pettigrew to say that preparation work is underway and that he has added about 200 words to the vocabulary. He writes of their method of comparing words in as many manuscripts as may be reviewed. Typed, dated 29 June 1937.
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