H.L. Shorto; Burmese MS; Mon resources

I've come upon the name H.L. Shorto a few times recently, and this will be
of interest to list members:

(1) H.L. Shorto has composed a catalogue of Burmese MS in the Chester Beatty
Library's S.E.A. MS Holdings --this list is unpublished, and I have written
to the library requesting it (or information as to how to get it).  This
library is supposed to have major holdings of S.E.A. Pali resources --but
they have no staff specialized in the region.  I note that the editors of an
article at S.O.A.S. were themselves unable to get Shorto's list from the
Chester Beatty Library --so I may not be able to get a reply either.

(2) His name appears twice in this list of Mon resources --and, of course,
the book on Mon epigraphy will have a great deal of overlap with Pali:
    * Halliday, Robert. 1922. A Mon-English dictionary. Bangkok: Siam
society.
    * Pan Hla, Nai. 1989. An introduction to Mon language Center for
Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.
    * Shorto, H.L. 1962. A dictionary of modern spoken Mon. Oxford University
Press.
    * Shorto, H.L. 1971. A dictionary of the Mon inscriptions from the sixth
to the sixteenth centuries. Oxford University Press.

E.M.

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