Unidad documental compuesta RAS MEMB/3/2/3 - Correspondence: 1960-1975

1 folder, handwritten and typed

Correspondence between the Society and the following Honorary Fellows dating from 1960s to 1970s. These are mostly internal and outgoing letters concerning issue of diploma and membership invitation, with replies from the members. For some, there is accompanying material such as biographies, copies of press release, news clippings, postcards and obituaries.

Elected 1945
Professor H. S. Nyberg

Elected 1946
Professor Georg Morgemdieme
Professor Gaston Wiet

Elected 1958
Professor S. C. A. Schaeffer
Professor K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
Professor E. Waldschmidt

Elected 1961
Professor J. Pedersen

Elected 1962
Professor Igor Michailovic Diakonoff, with additional letters regarding the Society's greetings of his 60th and 75th birthdays

Elected 1963
Professor Etienne Lamotte, with a notice of death

Elected 1964
Professor George Tsereteli

Elected 1967
Professor Vasily Invanovich Abaev
Professor Louis Legeti

Elected 1969
Dr Enrico Cerulli
Professor Annemarie von Gabain
Professor M. B. Emeneau

Elected 1970
Professor Paul Wittek
Professor William F. Albright
Professor H. J. Polotsky

Elected 1971
Dr Gunnar Jarring

Elected 1974
Dr C. Sivaramamurti
Professor Mujtaba Minovi
Professor Nikolay Aleksandrovich Baskakov

Elected 1975
Professor Andrey Nikolayevich Kononov
Professor Giuseppe Tucci, with additional correspondence with the Buckingham Palace
Professor George C. Miles
Professor I. Stchoukine
Professor Murad Kamil
Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Professor Gordon A. Calver (as Fellow honoris causa)
Dr John Hansman (as Fellow honoris causa)

Other correspondence:

• Three letters from Eric C. Naylor nominating Dr Alan E. Haw to be elected an Honorary Member, dated April 1965, October 1967 and December 1968, and replies from the Society. 8 pieces.
• Letter from V. P. Rehbar concerning application to be sent for Honorary Fellowship and the Society’s publication scheme, dated June 1966. 1 piece. Note that V. P. Rehbar’s name did not appear in the list of members
• Letter from Shri Vidhata applying to be an Honorary Fellow of the society, with details of qualifications, dated January 1967. 3 pieces
• Letter from P. S. Belvalkar informing the Society of the death of his father, Dr S. K. Belvalkar (elected 1946), dated March 1967. 2 pieces
• Letter from Professor J. Gonda from the Netherlands informing the Society of the death of Professor R. Heine-Geldern (elected 1946) and Professor F. D. K Bosch (elected 1948), and reply from the Society, dated January 1969. 2 pieces
• Telegram from Jacques Ryckmans informing the Society of the death of Monsignor Gonzague Ryckmans (elected 1948), including a printed obituary, [September 1969]. 2 pieces
• Letters regarding the nomination of Professor Hsia Nai (Xia Nai), Deputy Head of the Delegation of Archaeological Finds of the People’s Republic of China, 1973-1974; Professor Hsia Nai’s reply declining the nomination, dated February 1975; and a subsequent letter, from Dr Michael Loewe, regarding the renewal of the invitation. Hsia Nai was re-nominated as an Honorary Fellow in the Council meeting on 13 June 1985, only a few days before his death. 8 pieces
• Letters from Professor Edward Ullendorff, proposing Professor Sabatino Moscati and Professor C. H. Gordon to be new Honorary Fellows, dated 13 October 1973 and 28 January 1974. 4 pieces

The letters relating to elected members are arranged by the year of election of the member. Further letters relating to the members after the initial exchange have been kept together.