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The records of the Gold Medal cover the institution of the medal and the conferment of the Honour in subsequent years. They include examples of the medal, the original Declaration of Trust, and subsequent printed version of the declaration, correspondence and newspaper cuttings. However there are not records for all instances of the presentation of the Medal. Researchers are advised to also examine the Council Minutes and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (both held in the RAS Collections) when researching concerning the Gold Medal and its recipients.

Printed letter from the "Chairman of Committee" "to the Members of the Royal Asiatic Society" concerning the establishment, design of, and expense incurred for the Jubilee Gold Medal. It includes a First List of Subscriptions, raising £100, and the beginning of a Second List of Subscriptions. Subscribers and their contributions are detailed. Printed material, dated July 1898.

There is no archival material for this conferment of the Medal. Please see under Related Material for sources of information.

Two newspaper cuttings concerning the controversy around the use of Rudyard Kipling's "East is East and West is West" couplet by Lord Birkenhead at the presentation of the Triennial Gold Medal to Rev. A.H. Sayce. These are:

• 'Kipling's Distich." Lord Birkenhead on East and West' from The Times of India, 1 June 1925.
• 'Indian Affairs at Home. Reading-Birkenhead Discussions' from The Englishman, 5 June 1925.

Within this series are two letters, dating to 1980, concerning the giving of Margoliouth's Gold Medal to New College Oxford by his family. For further information about the conferment of the Medal please see Related Material.

Copy of a letter sent from the Royal Asiatic Society to Mary Fairs to acknowledge her letter informing them concerning Professor Margoliouth's Gold Medal and expressing their comments that it seemed entirely appropriate that the Medal should be held at New College, Oxford. Typed letter, dated 2 July 1980.

There are four items of correspondence concerning the organisation of the conferment of the Medal.

A series of correspondence, mainly between the Royal Asiatic Society and John Pinches, regarding the making and purchase of the Medal.

Correspondence with Aurel Stein concerning the conferment of the Medal.

Letter from Sir Edward Maclagan, Acting President of Royal Asiatic Society, to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Scoiety, to enclose a copy of the letter he had sent to Aurel Stein asking him to accept the Gold Medal and to inform when he will next be in England. The copy of this letter is also present. Handwritten, dated 11 March 1932.