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Correspondence and notes regarding the negotiations for leaving the premises. Letters between the Royal Asiatic Society, their solicitors, and those of Asprey and Co. Ltd. regarding the deal to be struck for the Society to vacate the premises. Also notes of decisions made by the Society.

Correspondence and notes regarding the legality of the intention to determine the Lease as the original Lease included that the contract could not be terminated unless Asprey's needed the premises for their own business. Letters primarily between the Royal Asiatic Society, their solicitors T.L. Wilson & Co., and Asprey's solicitors, Richardson, Sadlers and Callard.

Letter from Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to Mrs Tania Foster-Brown, Archivist, Aspreys, to state that in preparation for the Society's 175 year anniversary, he is researching the Society's premises at Albemarle Street and wondered if Aspreys held any records of the building whilst the Society was a tenant. With this letter is a compliment slip from Tania Foster-Brown and a black and white photograph of 22 Albemarle Street, mounted on board, dating to the 1970s.