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Official documents and correspondence regarding the purchase of 60 Queen's Gardens.

In 1995, it was discovered that significant repairs were needed to the premises. These papers include correspondence predominantly between the Royal Asiatic Society and Giles Quarme, Chartered Architect, architectural plans for proposed changes, and reports concerning the work and its financial implications.

• Inventory of the contents of 60 Queen's Gardens, dated to September 1997.
• R.A.S. Inventory - February 1999
• Letter and Invoice from A&B Joinery to make a lectern in mahogany veneered MDF. Two items, dated 12 July-19 August 1999.

In 2003 the Royal Asiatic Society undertook to rent rooms to the Society for South Asian Studies. This material includes correspondence between the two Societies, and with the acting Solicitors, Gregory Rowcliffe Milners; draft agreements and an inventory of the contents of the rooms to be rented.

In December 2003, the Council decided to consider moving properties. A Property Steering Group was set up to pursue the recommendation for finding new premises. The material in this series consists of a letter sent by Francis Robinson to members of the group in advance of the meeting of the group on 11 January 2005, and the Minutes for the Group's meeting on 10 February 2005.

In 2004, Chesterton Ltd. were instructed to provide a marketing report and advice on the disposal of 60 Queen's Gardens. This material contains correspondence between Chesterton and the Royal Asiatic Society, dated 11 May 2004- 25 November 2004. The material also contains correspondence between the Society and Manches LLP who sold the property to The Jordanian Book Centre, dated 11 March 2005-26 August 2005, when both sale of the Queen's Garden property and purchase of 14 Stephenson Way were complete.

The move of the Society from Queen's Gardens necessitated the sale of some furniture and curtains. This material includes correspondence with The Curtain Exchange, Lloyds International Auction Galleries, and Christie's. It also includes a Catalogue for Christie's Auction of Furniture and Decorative Objects held on 11 October 2005, when some of the Society's furniture was in the sale.

Internal correspondence concerning the use of the premises at Queen's Gardens. These are:

• Correspondence from Godfrey Goodwin to Dennis Duncanson concerning the changes that may be needed to Queen's Gardens, handwritten and typed, dated 18 September [1987].
• Report from Godfrey Goodwin, Librarian, to the Director concerning the Library and its collections, handwritten, dated 26 September 1987.
• Quotations for Library Shelving, typed with annotations, undated.

Report from Morton-Smith & Co., Chartered Surveyors, concerning water penetration through roof leakages into the property. Four page report with accompanying 10 colour photographs.

'Historical copy or register of title' - copies of the property register for 60 Queen's Garden supplied by the Land Registry, covering the period 1992 -2015.