Proposed Alterations and Improvements to the Premises of the Royal Asiatic Society Initial report created by Geoffrey K Payne, Architect. Letter from B.W. Robinson, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to Geoffrey K. Payne to thank him for his work on the estimates and plans.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandProposals for the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society - draft statement concerning the needs of the Library.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland"Proposal to reintroduce open access to a limited range of the RAS book collections" - proposal to be assessed at the Library Committee Meeting, 25 September 2003, regarding Access to the Collections. Written by Helen Cordell, Honorary Librarian, dated 17 September 2003. Electronic document.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, EnglandProposal form for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, 11-14 April 1991, for the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Business Meeting and Roundtable on Angus Graham's Disputers of Tao with Bernard Schwartz, Henry Rosemont, Roger Ames and Angus Graham.
Ames Roger TIn 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 historian