“At the meeting of the American Oriental Society held in Washington this week,you were elected to Honorary membership in the Society. We all feel that in asking you to accept this, the Society honours itself rather than you. Yet we hope that you may feel able to accept .It is customary to limit our honorary membership to 25 which includes all branches of oriental studies. Sir Flinders Petrie and Sir John Marshall were elected at the same time with you. The Secretary will officially notify you but I can not forbear the pleasure of a personal note on the subject because I have such keen and pleasant memory of your kindness to me in Kashmir last summer.” - Professor Franklin Edgerton.

(in a letter dated April 14, 1928, by Franklin Edgerton to Sir Aurel Stein.) Stein Mss75, Bodleian Library, Oxford.