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The Third New Barwis-Holliday Award was awarded to Dr James Huntley Grayson for his paper, 'They first saw a mirror: a Korean folktale as a form of social criticism'. The archival material is:

• 'The Third New Barwis-Holliday Award for Far Eastern Studies' - advertisement about the Award and conditions for submission. Archival electronic document created in November 2024.
• 'Third Barwis-Holliday Entrants' - list of entrants. Archival electronic document created in November 2024.
• Copies of emails sent within the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the winner and his prize money, dated 20-21 June 2006.
• Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to James H. Grayson to send reviewers reports and suggest he makes some changes to his paper. Archival electronic document created in November 2024.
• Letter from Sarah Ansari, Editor, Royal Asiatic Society, to James H. Grayson to inform him of his winning the Barwis-Holliday Award. Archival electronic document created in November 2004.
• Letter from Camilla Larsen, Executive Officer, Royal Asiatic Society, to James H. Grayson to send his cheque for winning the Award, dated 18 July 2006.
• Letter from James H. Grayson to Camilla Larsen to thank the Society for the Award and the cheque, dated 21 July 2006.

The Second New Barwis-Holliday Award was given to Professor William South Coblin for his paper, 'Robert Morrison and the Phonology of Mid-Qing Mandarin'. The archival material is:

• 'Barwis-Holliday Award for Eastern Studies 2002' - advertisement giving details of the Award and the stipulations for submission.
• Letter from W. South Coblin to the Assistant Editor, Royal Asiatic Society, to submit his paper, dated 15 December 2002.
• List of submissions, country of residence and title of their papers.
• Correspondence from Lauren Pfister and Francis Robinson critiquing the papers, dated 19 June 2003 - 14 March 2004.
• Letter from Sarah Ansari, Editor, Royal Asiatic Society to William South Coblin to inform that he has won the Award, dated 28 January 200[5]. Archival electronic document created in November 2024.
• Letter from W. South Coblin to Sarah Ansari to thank to the award, dated 22 February 2005.
• Copies of emails concerning payment of the Award, dated 25 -29 March 2005.
• Letter from Bridget Ibbs, Executive Officer, Royal Asiatic Society, to William South Coblin to send the cheque to him, dated 6 April 2005.

In January 2001 the Publications Committee of the Society decided to update the Barwis-Holliday Award to increase the prize-money to £250. The material in this series consists of correspondence and administrative documents concerned with the conferment of the Award since that time.

The Fourth New Barwis-Holliday Award was given to Professor Richard John Lynn for his paper, 'Women in Huang Zunxian’s Rihen zashi shi'. The archival material is:

• Copy of an email with text for advertisement for the Fourth New Barwis-Holliday Award, dated 19 January 2007.
• Electronic poster for the Fourth New Barwis-Holliday Award, archival electronic document created in November 2024.
• Two letters from candidates submitting their papers, dated 20 January - 14 February 2006.
• Reports on submitted papers, 4 archival electronic documents created November 2024.

The First New Barwis-Holliday Award was given to David Branner for his paper, 'On early Chinese morphology and its intellectual history'. The archival material is:

• 'Barwis-Holliday Award for far Eastern Studies' - an advert for the award with guideline for submission.
• Reports from Sarah Ansari and Tim H. Barrett on the submissions, undated and dated 9 September 2002.
• Copies of emails within the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the prize-winner, dated 18 October - 27 November 2002.
• Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to Lloyds TSB Bank to send a payment to the account of David Branner, dated 23 January 2003.

The Fifth Barwis-Holliday Award was awarded to Dr George Mak in 2014 for his paper, 'To add or not to add? The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Defence of the ‘without comment principle’ in late Qing China'. The archival material associated with this is all electronic and the archival electronic documents were all created in November 2024. These are:

• Advertisement for the New Barwis-Holliday Award giving details about the awards and conditions for submission, two different versions.
• 'The Barwis-Holliday and the Staunton Prize' - list of judges.
• 'Barwis-Holliday Submissions' - a list of the candidates for the Award.
• Reviews on the papers submitted, 9 electronic documents.
• 'The Barwis-Holliday Award' and 'The Staunton Prize' giving notification of the winners of each Award, announcement prepared for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

The Barwis-Holliday was established in 1977 by the donation of investments to the value of £690 by Major J.E. Barwis-Holliday and supplemented by a bequest of £1,000 from the estate of the donor. The income was to be used to finance a monetary award for a paper upon a Far-Eastern subject to be published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. These papers consist of material created in the administration and conferment of the award.

Statement for conditions of, and the requirements for submission to the Major Barwis-Holliday Award, dated January 1980.

Posthumous letter from Edward Barwis-Holliday to E.V. Gibson, RAS Secretary, concerning the provisions of his will. With this letter is a newspaper cutting giving announcement of his death.

Postcard from Susan Skilliter to C.F. Beckingham in support of accepting the proposed award.