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Correspondence concerned with the donation of the papers and photographs of E.W. Hutchinson concerned with his time and work in Thailand, given by Hutchinson's nephew, J.A. Howell.

• Letter from the Assistant Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to Professor E.H. Simmonds, President, concerning the donation of the material, dated 1 December 1972.
• Letter from the Assistant Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to A.J. Howell to thank for the donation and to inform that the President had looked at the material, dated 28 February 1973.
• Handwritten notes with some biographical details of Hutchinson.

Correspondence with Peter Khoroche concerning the donation of his two publications on the Jatakamala and the general policy re book donations. Two letters, dated 18 and 24 October 1990.

• Two letters from Ruth Manning, great-great-niece of Thomas Manning, concerning the presentation of a portrait of Thomas Manning to the Society. Both handwritten, each 2 sides, dated 2 June 1962 and 23 September 1962.
• Letter from M. Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to acknowledge receipt of the portrait, typed, 1 side, dated November 1962.

Correspondence regarding the disposal of a portrait of Sir Mortimer Durand:

• Letter from [H.M.] Hake, Director, National Portrait Gallery, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform of the Trustees decision not to accept the portrait of Sir Mortimer Durand. Typed, 1 piece, dated 9 April 1943.
• Letter from Alex Godley, Deputy Chairman of Council, the Royal Empire Society, to the Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society to thank for the offer of the portrait but due to damage of their building in air raids of 1941, they have nowhere safe to keep it. Typed, 1 piece, dated 20 October 1943.
• Letter from Hon Secretary, Oriental Club, to Royal Asiatic Society to inform they have insufficient space to accept the portrait. Handwritten, 1 piece, dated 23 October 1943.
• Note to say that the Foreign Office had accepted the portrait for their office in Tehran. Handwritten, 1 piece, undated.

Subsequent to this the Society in 2000-2001, initiated inquiries with the department, Government Art Collections, into the whereabouts of the portrait. It was ascertained that the portrait was shipped on the SS Kohistan in 1949 to Tehran but in a check in 1974, the portrait was missing though this had not been communicated to the Society. Ten pieces, typed dated 24 February 2000 - 15 November 2001.

Letter from the Director, Royal Asiatic Society, to L.D. Barnett to inform that since the requisite period was about to elapse since the death of Charles Ambrose Storey, the Society would soon be able to dispose of the surplus books. These were first to be offered to the British Institute of Persian Studies. The letter concerns organising a meeting for this to take place.

Records created in the early use and research of the collections. These include a ledger, correspondence and collection information.

Information collated about the collections from the early history of the Society:

• Information concerning RAS Persian Manuscript 258 Gulistan of Sa'di. Handwritten and typed, 3 pieces, undated.
• 'Memo' - index of contents of an unknown [Thai] manuscript or book about Buddhism and the Siam court. Handwritten, 1 piece, undated.
• '[Kalunelle Wieharre]' - a list of manuscripts or index for a manuscript concerning Buddhism including some of the jatakas. Handwritten, 1 piece, undated.
• 'No' - an index for a manuscript found within Raffles Malay Manuscript 3 but not pertaining to it but to a manuscript written by different hands in the Marwari dialect and chiefly of Jain poems, possibly relating to Tod Ms.106. Handwritten, 4 sides, undated.
• 'An attempt to identify the Indian artist who painted a picture of Jahangir's Court' - an article by Henry Beveridge identifying the artist and the people portrayed in a watercolour painting of Jahangir and his courtiers donated to the Royal Asiatic Society by Major Charles Stewart, 5 July 1834, having been brought to England by Colonel Champion in 1775 and cleaned and regilded by Vaux in November 1880. Handwritten, 23 pages, dated 20 June 1915. The picture is no longer in the collections. Though written about in Foster's article The Pictures, etc., of the Royal Asiatic Society, (J.R.A.S. 1924) it was recorded as missing by the 1970 in the Society's guard books.
• Translation of the full-size copy of the Inscription to the Taula of Hafiz in Shiraz - handwritten, 2 pieces, [1929].

Material giving information regarding the printed material within our collections. These are:

• 'Gravures des conquêtes de l'Empereur de Chine K'ien-Long au Musée Gimet' - a printed pamphlet containing notes on the engravings of China's conquest of Turkestan, 1757. This pamphlet was produced by the Musée Gimet in 1969. With the pamphlet are photocopies of an article by Paul Pelliot from T'oung Pao, Vol XX, 1921 also describing the engravings; photocopies of portions of the book 'Guiseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors' by Cecile and Michel Beurdeley, translated by Michael Bullock, published by Lund Humphries, 1971 again describing the engravings; a copy of Chapter 6 from the 'Peintres Jésuites en Chine au XVIII Siècle' by Michel Beurdeley; the article 'The introduction of copper-engraving into China' by Hartmut Walverens copied from the 62nd IFLA General Conference Proceedings, 1996; a copy of 'East Asian arts: Painting and pictorial arts' downloaded from Britannica, 2002; and further handwritten and typed notes on the material.
• Photocopy of the section from 'A Directory of Rare Books and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland' edited by Moelwyn J Williams (Library Association, 1985) containing information about the Society's collections.
• 'The Storey Collection' - a document by Francois de Blois concerning the types of books bequeathed by Professor C.A. Storey, typed, 2 pieces, dated January 1995.
• 'Sorting Chinese and Japanese Materials at the RAS Library' by Iside Carbone - an article about the Chinese and Japanese books in the collections. Typed, 12 pieces, dated 21 May 2003.
• Siolta 2023, the annual publication of the Irish Society of Botanical Artists with illustrations provided by the Society from its collection of the Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 28, 1929, to accompany the article 'Clare Emma Whitty (1883-1950) and the flora of central Korea' by Charles Nelson.

Two sets of postcards with illustrations from manuscripts:

• A set of 13 postcards with images from Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi, RAS Persian MS 239.
• Three postcards, 2 showing images from RAS Persian MS 239 and one image from the Gulistan of Sa'di, RAS Persian MS 258. These were photographed by Kevin Lovelock, British Museum. 1998.

Information about, and evidence of engagement with the artworks of the Society. For collections with a significant amount of material, a separate subseries was created.