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This archive consists of lists and correspondence concerned with the disposal of items in the Collections of the Society. The Society has not kept comprehensive records throughout its history. Further information pertaining to Disposals of the Society may be found in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and in the Minute books for the Council and General Meetings. Disposals may continue in the life of the Society. More recent ones are held in the Society's records management system and will be transferred to the archive in due course.

This series contains correspondence regarding the donation of the Royal Asiatic Society Museum collection to the India Museum at the India Office.

Letter from J.C. Melvill, India Office, to Reinhold Rost, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to acknowledge his letter and to inform that the Secretary of State for India is pleased to sanction temporary accommodation in the India Office Museum for the collections of the Society and that they will be exhibited as far as practicable. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 18 March 1869.

Correspondence, lists and a catalogue concerning the disposals of material in this period.

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."

Letter from Professor S.G. Vesey-Fitzgerald, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), to Sir Richard Winstedt, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the University's Librarian had looked through the list of Law Books which the Society were wanting to dispose and that they were willing to pay £10 for the volumes with the price less expenses paid to the Society for any volumes that they sell. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 25 March 1949.

Correspondence, lists and catalogues concerning the disposals of material in this period

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.

Letter from Deputy Keeper, Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum, to John Hansman, Royal Asiatic Society, to send a list of the Society's objects transferred to the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum in 1925. The list is not with the letter.

Letter from Margaret Nicholson, Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, to Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society concerning his offer of surplus journals to the LIbrary.