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Correspondence related to giving by members in response to a fundraising initiative, 14 pieces, dated 14 May 1980 - 26 January 1981.

This series contains end of year and signed accounts, asset expenditure, endowment histories and material concerning investments.

The majority of administrative papers are not retained after their active lives. These ones have ben kept as of potential archival interest. These are:

• Correspondence between Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society and D.H. Bramall, T.L. Wilson & Co., Solicitors, concerning the whereabouts of original Deeds of Trust for some of the Society's Trust Funds. Two letters, typed with handwritten annotations, dated 19 January - 22 February 1966.
• Budget and allied papers for 1998-2004, 37 pieces, typed and computer printed.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society Accounts and Accounting Procedures June 2000' giving a brief account of each of the function in the Society's ledger, 5 pieces, computer printed.
• Correspondence with auditors covering the period from 1991-2005, 60 pieces, typed and computer printed.
• Correspondence concerning the Society's use of the Charities Aid Foundation from 2010-2012, 20 pieces, typed and computer printed.

The original trust document between Doctor Bimala Churn Law and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning his donation to the Society, the income arising from the Fund to be used in publishing a monograph or thesis which shall be part of the Dr B.C. Law Trust Series and should be on Buddhism, Jainism or the Hostory or Geography of Ancient India up to the end of the thirteenth century. The document is signed by Council Members of the RAS and by Bimala Churn Law and bears the Society's seal. It is dated 16 October 1936.

Correspondence concerning the bequest of Professor Charles Ambrose Storey to the Royal Asiatic Society and copies of his will. Storey died on 24 April 1967 and bequeathed his specific legacies of books and manuscripts and the residue of his estate. The material includes:

• Initial correspondence to Storey from his solicitors concerning drafts of his will dating from 1937-1950.
• Wills dated 1935, 1940, 1941, 1954, and a notebook containing a handwritten draft of the will.
• Executorship Statement dated 21 May 1968.
• Correspondence, mostly dating from 1967 and 1968, concerning the sorting of the will, and the sale of Storey's library and other items.

5 Certificates of "Consolidated £3 per Cent. Annuities" to James Alexander, Henry Thomas Colebrooke and George Henry Noehden, 1823, printed and handwritten, 5 pieces + label. These certificates were valued at:

• Four hundred and eighteen pounds and thirteen shillings, dated 29 April 1823
• One hundred and fifty-nine pounds, eleven shillings and seven pence, dated 12 May 1823
• One hundred and forty-nine pounds, thirteen shillings and seven pence, dated 28 May 1823
• Three hundred and eighty-seven pounds, six shillings, dated 18 July 1823
• One hundred and fifty-three pounds, seventeen shillings and four pence, dated 30 September 1823

Correspondence with and concerning interactions with the Charity Commissions. These are:

• Correspondence regarding registration under the Charities Act 1960, 2 letters, 1 memorandum concerning submission of statements of account, and 3 associated forms, dated 7 September - 22 October 1962.
• Correspondence regarding streamlining funds and rental of rooms, 6 letters, dated 28 April 1969 - 22 April 1970.
• Charity Commission Sealed Direction to enable the Society to appoint an investment manager, printed material, dated 30 June 1994, and 21 allied file notes or letters, dated 26 February 1993 - 6 November 1995.
• Letter from D.W. MacDowall, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to Ms Helen Johnson, Charity Commission, regarding insurance of collections, 21 November 1996.

Correspondence concerning the legacy given to the Royal Asiatic Society from the estate of Charles Murray Stewart Whitelaw, dated 23 November 1999 - 8 December 1999.

Deeds of covenant and correspondence regarding corporate subscription for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1979-1994. These include Grindlays Bank Ltd., Gray Mackenzie & Company Limited, Midland Bank Limited, Barclays International, Steel Brothers and Company Limited, Richard Costain Limited, John Swire & Sons Ltd., Lloyds Bank Limited, Matheson & Co. Ltd., Middle East Economic Digest Ltd., Douglas J K Wright Ltd., Pauling and Company Ltd., Sotheby Parke Benet & Co., Shell international Petroleum Company Limited, British Bank of the Middle East, and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 49 pieces, handwritten and typed.

Correspondence with H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Grosvenor District, and allied notes concerning covenanted subscriptions and Amendments of the Rules concerning membership, 16 pieces, dated 30 October 1942 - 29 December 1944.