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The Royal Asiatic Society leased 74 Grosvenor Street from 1920 to 1947. These papers include those for the negotiation of taking up the lease, for possibility lease of different premises, for wartime damage insurance contributions, for the expediency of leaving the premises. There is also a photograph of 74 Grosvenor Street of unknown date.

Correspondence concerning the payment of War Damage Insurance Contributions by the Royal Asiatic Society for 74 Grosvenor Street. The correspondence is mainly between the Royal Asiatic Society, their Solicitors T.L. Wilson & Co., the freeholder's solicitor, Boodle, Hatfield & Co., Lloyd's Bank, and H.M. Inspector of Taxes. There are also two items of printed material explaining the War damage Insurance Scheme.