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With the Covid pandemic, some lectures became virtual events. Zoom recordings were made for the following lectures:

• 13 July 2020: Jonathan Bloom, 'Architecture of the Islamic West'.
• 17 August 2020: Professor Sarah Ansari, 'Boundaries of Belonging'.
• 26 August 2020: Diana Darke, 'Stealing from the Saracens'.

Yin-Yang and the nature of correlative thinking was published in Philosophy East and West, 1986. This material consists of two letters concerning the article.

Various items connected with the Society's emblems:
Wood block for printing the Society's tree emblem and motto. Wood block for printing of elephant emblem. Steel engraving of Royal Asiatic Society seal. Two examples in green wax of the seal of the Society's elephant emblem. One example in red of the Society's elephant emblem. Plaster cast of the Society's tree emblem and motto with a fragment of the Society's emblem with wreath.

Graham was asked to write a preface for the publication of a translation by Witter Bynner. The material consists of correspondence concerning the essay and background material provided by the Foundation.

What was new in the Ch'eng-Chu theory of human nature was published in Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism edited by Wing-tsit Chan, University of Hawaii Press, 1986, and reprinted in Studies of Early Chinese Philosophy. This material consists of correspondence from Wing-tsit Chan regarding the article.

Correspondence, planning information, newspaper cuttings and photographs concerning the Prince's visit to the Royal Asiatic Society in 2002.

Vampiri in un solo morso was published in Il Manifesto, Rome (1 September 1986). The material consists of a news-cutting of the article and three English drafts by Graham.

Value, fact and facing fact was published in the Journal of Value Inquiry 19 (1985). This material consists of drafts and correspondence regarding the article and its publication.

Correspondence of unknown date.

Two carbon copy letterbooks of Oscar Eckenstein’s copies of correspondence with N.M. Penzer:

(a) [March 1920] to 21 July 1920, (b) 24 July 1920 to 18 December 1920.

The latter book also contains a letter from Penzer’s solicitor to Eckenstein dated 17th December 1920 threatening legal action because of Eckenstein’s refusal to proceed with the sale of his Burton collection to Penzer, and one from Eckenstein’s solicitor to Eckenstein dated 23rd December 1920 discussing the possibility of a settlement. (The record of the correspondence between Penzer and Eckenstein breaks off at this point. Eckenstein died April 8 1921).

There is also a letter from Margery Cham to Lewis C. Loyd, from “The Cave, Oving" (Eckenstein’s former home), dated 8 December 1922, saying that she was sending all that she could find of copies of Eckenstein’s letters to Penzer.