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Correspondence regarding the disposal of a portrait of Sir Mortimer Durand:

• Letter from [H.M.] Hake, Director, National Portrait Gallery, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform of the Trustees decision not to accept the portrait of Sir Mortimer Durand. Typed, 1 piece, dated 9 April 1943.
• Letter from Alex Godley, Deputy Chairman of Council, the Royal Empire Society, to the Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society to thank for the offer of the portrait but due to damage of their building in air raids of 1941, they have nowhere safe to keep it. Typed, 1 piece, dated 20 October 1943.
• Letter from Hon Secretary, Oriental Club, to Royal Asiatic Society to inform they have insufficient space to accept the portrait. Handwritten, 1 piece, dated 23 October 1943.
• Note to say that the Foreign Office had accepted the portrait for their office in Tehran. Handwritten, 1 piece, undated.

Subsequent to this the Society in 2000-2001, initiated inquiries with the department, Government Art Collections, into the whereabouts of the portrait. It was ascertained that the portrait was shipped on the SS Kohistan in 1949 to Tehran but in a check in 1974, the portrait was missing though this had not been communicated to the Society. Ten pieces, typed dated 24 February 2000 - 15 November 2001.

Correspondence, insurance quotes, and indemnity certificates concerning the permanent loan of material to the British Museum. This material consists of:

• The commemorative inscription of the Ananta-Vasudeva temple at Bhuvanesvar, dated 1278 A.D.
• Three Ujjain copper-plate grants of the rulers of Malwa
• The Taxila Plate of Patika.
• Other stone inscriptions

These items were already at the British Museum before the first letter dated 6 June 1967 and have remained there. The correspondence includes some to confirm that the material is still with the British Museum. Much of the correspondence are photocopies of original letters. 67 items.

Letter from the Director, Royal Asiatic Society, to L.D. Barnett to inform that since the requisite period was about to elapse since the death of Charles Ambrose Storey, the Society would soon be able to dispose of the surplus books. These were first to be offered to the British Institute of Persian Studies. The letter concerns organising a meeting for this to take place.

Letter from Miss J.C. Lancaster, Deputy Librarian and Deputy Keeper of the Records, India Office Library, to Miss Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to say they would be happy to accept volumes of the Hog Hunters Annual missing from their collections and possibly those of the Meerut Tentpeggers' Club also.

Correspondence and notes re potential disposal of some of the Library - correspondence between members of Council, the Honorary Librarian and others about reducing the book stock by disposing of items either not in line with the Collections remit or incomplete sets of journals and newspapers. Consists of printed emails, handwritten notes and a list of potential periodicals for disposal. Includes seven electronic documents: 01-03 were originally created in 2004; 04 in 2005; 05 in 2008 ; 06-07 in 2010 and all were converted into archival documents in 2018.

Correspondence regarding the potential donation to the Royal Asiatic Society by Mr David Pickup of photograph albums of Iraq in 1929-1930 and the decision to transfer them to the British Library. This includes the transfer document and formal acknowledgement letter from the British Library. 8 items

Letters of Acknowledgement of receipt of five volumes of Myanma Sway-Son Kyan and 50 volumes of the Bulletin of the National Library of Peiping given to the Library at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Two items.

Acknowledgement slip for the disposal of some volumes of the Numismatic Chronicle to the British Museum. One item.

Correspondence with the Hampshire Record Office about items belonging to Richard Austen Leigh that were donated to the record office from the Society's collections.

There are two letters from P.E. Pieris to Sir Richard Winstedt. The first thanks Sir Richard for informing him that the Council had agreed to sell the Painting to him for £100. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 1 January 1947. The Council Minutes for 12 December 1946 record that the Council "Agreed to sell a Dutch picture to Dr. P.E. Pieris for £100. The second thanks the Council for giving to him further pictures - four of which are to go to Colombo Museum, one to Kandy while the portrait of the "Moorish doctor" had given rise to a series of letters in the local paper. He also write about the sketches of gods and goddesses which the Society had offered to lend him for 6 months. Typed, 1 side, dated 5 May 1950. The Council Minutes for 8 December 1949 records "Sketches asked for by Dr. Pieris to be presented to him gratis". The Minutes for 9 February 1950 record "A letter of thanks from Mr Pieris for two Ceylonese sketches" and those for 20 April 1950 record "Resolved to give Dr. P.E. Pieris five pen-and-ink sketches of Ceylon viz. Nos. 2, 21, 22 and 23 of Portfolio 2 and No. 29 of Portfolio 4 and to lend him for 6 months coloured drawings of Hindu gods, etc., if desired."