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.
Sans titrePrinted 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.
Sans titreCopy 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.
Sans titreLetter 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.
Sans titreLetter from Aurel Stein to Colonel Hoysted to write that he received both Hoysted's letter and telegram and replied by telegram which he hopes has already reached the Society. Stein asks if some friends may be invited to the presentation and sends a list of them with the letter. Handwritten dated 2 June 1932.
Letter from Aurel Stein to Edward Maclagan, to thank him for his previous letter and his volume on the Jesuits at the Mogul Court. Stein also thanks Maclagan for informing him about the procedure for the presentation of the Medal. Handwritten, Dated 14 June 1932.
Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India to enclose information needed for the speech required by the Secretary of State at the Presentation of the Medal and to explain the order of proceedings. With the letter is a biography of Aurel Stein prepared by Professor F.W. Thomas. Typed, dated 10 June 1932.
Sans titre"Explorer Receives a Gold Medal". Newspaper cutting from The Daily Mirror for 17 June 1932 with a photograph of Sir Samuel Hoare presenting the Gold Medal to Aurel Stein.
"India: The Services and Research". Newspaper cutting from The Times Educational Supplement for 25 June 1932 which reports on the annual dinner of the Indian Medical Service and on the Presentation of the Gold Medal.
Letter from John Pinches to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to provide estimates for the production of the Gold Medal. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 17 March 1938.
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