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Postcard from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank Pollock for his prompt and full response. The material he sent was very helpful,

Postcard from J. Lees-Milne, Private Secretary to Lord Lloyd, to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to confirm that the time of the Presentation is suitable.

Postcard from Gillian Webster to Royal Asiatic Society to suggest the name of Beatrice de Cardi as a potential recipient of the Burton Memorial Medal.

Postcard from F.F. Arbuthnot to T.W. Rhys Davids, sent from Marseille, to give his address for Rhys Davids to send information about a Persian text and Chinese translation.

Postcard from Dr Reser, Ankara, Turkey, to C.A. Storey on which he writes of the delay in receiving Storey's card and that he is unable to supply the book that Storey requests. He hopes to send his new translation soon, and asks for two Gibb Memorial Volumes at a reduced price.

Postcard from Cecil John Edmonds to Mrs Davis, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to write that he had decided to use slides. He thanks for her reply regarding admission cards and that he will try to put together some biographical details.

It appears that in 1939 the Royal Asiatic Society were looking at different options for their premises. There are two items of correspondence:

• Letter from Col. D.M.F. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to Sir Edward Maclagan to inform that the freeholder's Solicitors have approved of the Society leasing Farm House. He encloses a financial statement and will seek Mr Perowne's advice (RAS Treasurer). Dated 14 July 1939.
• Letter from Edward Maclagan to Col. Hoysted to discuss the figures and to suggest that it doesn't go before the Committee before he has heard from Mr Perowne. Dated 15 July 1939.

Portsmouth Telegraph or Motley's Naval and Military Journal. This is a Centenary copy dated 14 October 1899 for the issue for Monday 14 October, 1799. Significance in archive is not known.

Correspondence regarding the disposal of a portrait of Sir Mortimer Durand:

• Letter from [H.M.] Hake, Director, National Portrait Gallery, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform of the Trustees decision not to accept the portrait of Sir Mortimer Durand. Typed, 1 piece, dated 9 April 1943.
• Letter from Alex Godley, Deputy Chairman of Council, the Royal Empire Society, to the Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society to thank for the offer of the portrait but due to damage of their building in air raids of 1941, they have nowhere safe to keep it. Typed, 1 piece, dated 20 October 1943.
• Letter from Hon Secretary, Oriental Club, to Royal Asiatic Society to inform they have insufficient space to accept the portrait. Handwritten, 1 piece, dated 23 October 1943.
• Note to say that the Foreign Office had accepted the portrait for their office in Tehran. Handwritten, 1 piece, undated.

Subsequent to this the Society in 2000-2001, initiated inquiries with the department, Government Art Collections, into the whereabouts of the portrait. It was ascertained that the portrait was shipped on the SS Kohistan in 1949 to Tehran but in a check in 1974, the portrait was missing though this had not been communicated to the Society. Ten pieces, typed dated 24 February 2000 - 15 November 2001.

A leather bound folder containing two notebooks titled Kanheri: Caves I to XXI and Kanheri Caves II (caves xxi to xxxviii). There is also a comparative list of the West's account and that of French Indologist A. H. Anequetil Du Perron, as well as four pieces of scrap paper of calculations and shorthand lists.