In December 2003, the Council decided to consider moving properties. A Property Steering Group was set up to pursue the recommendation for finding new premises. The material in this series consists of a letter sent by Francis Robinson to members of the group in advance of the meeting of the group on 11 January 2005, and the Minutes for the Group's meeting on 10 February 2005.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandPlans for the property 56 Queen Anne Street. These are:
- Plans drawn up by G.K. Payne for location of rooms in Queen Anne Street, Scale 1/8" =1'0" 56 Queen Anne Street, September 1974, prepared by Morton-Smith and Company with room plans for basement, ground and first floors and a small location plan. Three sheets of plans numbering and labelling the rooms on basement, ground and first floors.
- Copies of Payne's plans with annotations. Undated.
- Five photocopied sheets of floor plans for basement, ground, 1st and 2nd floors, and mews. Undated.
Brief report about a request by the Mongolian Foreign Ministry to the Chinese embassy about their distribution of propaganda leaflets. [1963?]
"Proofs of Facsimile of the Naqsh-i Rastan Inscription published in the Indian Antiquary corrected by EW West". Four pages of proofs plus a tracing of "Ten Pahlavi signatures appended to copperplate Grant to a Syrian Church in Southern India of probably the first half of the ninth century A.D.". All within a blue paper folder with the title handwritten on it.
West Edward William 1824-1905Plates and photographs for articles. These are:
- Fig.1 Map of Elburz Mountains and surrounding area, printed material
- Figs. 6 &7, Site VII, Plan Level 2 and Rooms 2 & 5, printed materia
*l Figs. 9-12: Site IV: Plan Level 2; Room 1 ; Room 3. Site I Plan of the two levels of the Naqqare Khane, printed material - Fig. 13 &14: Parts of pottery and copper, wood and glass objects, printed material
- Fig. 15: Pottery of Parthian date, printed material Photograph of excavation find, unlabelled, annotated "32 cms. B", printed materia
*l Two sheets of B&W photographs stuck onto brown cardboard with labels: "Fig. 2 Wall of Gurgan and forts in North of Gunbad-Qabus", "Pl.2 New construction on top of the wall", "Pl.3 Wall's bricks taken for new construction"
Proof notes which have become separated from their manuscripts. Attached is a receipt for a registered postal packet.
Allen William Edward David 1901-1973 Caucasian historianReflections and Replies - proofs for Graham's contribution to Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991Prolegomenon to a new history of early Taoism: The Huai-nan Tzu and the Meaning of 'Huang-Lao' – partial draft, undated.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991Manuscripts of programmes for performances, handwritten in Arabic script, the two performances mentioned are 'Marriage of Antar' which was performed at The National Arabic Opera in the presence of Kadil Tawfiq I. The second performance is of 'Telemachus son of Ulysses' which was possibly performed by the Qurdahi troupes at the Opera House in Cairo, Egypt.
Goldsmid Sir Frederic John 1818-1908 Major GeneralTwo Programmes for Cambodian Dances at Angkor, one is in English and the other in French.