Ephemera associated with the governance of the Society including headed notepaper, copies of death certificates, examples of seals and logos and a photographic copy of a picture of the interior of the Thatched House Club where the initial meeting of the Society was held.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandThis series include various objects and illustrations that are connected with the Journal's production. They include items associated with the printing of the Journal.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandEpisode of Dona Ignez de Castro. The Lusiads of Camoens, Canto III, stanzas 118-135, printed for private circulation 1879, Harrison & Sons, London. This is a typewritten copy of RB/2/10. Typed Copy of Pamphlet originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntingdon Library, California).
'Epitome of the Rise of the Mahratta Empire' - a history of the Maratha Empire by an unknown author.
"Ergative Semantic Chinese: A Research Project On the Semantic Structure of Chinese" by Kung-yi Kao, Stanford University - draft article.
Kao Kung-yiA series of drafts for 'Escorts in Tibet', the record of Mackenzie's time as part of the escort to the Trade Agent, based on his diaries (FM/1).
Mackenzie FlemingEssay - "The causes of the decay of the Mogul Empire" with identifier quotation, "We are all in difficulty, all in distraction, surrounded by a people; by a strange people. Memoirs of Babur." Typed manuscript, 16 pages + 2 hand-drawn maps. Also label page identifying it as the winning essay for 1935.
Jones Evan GlyndwrEssay - "The Portuguese in India" by Dennis Wood, University of Bristol. Typed manuscript, 48 pages plus a title page and hand-drawn map. With this essay is a handwritten title page with the candidate's tutor signature and a further note identifying this as the 1936 First Prize.
Wood, DennisThe first prize essay - "The relations between the Greeks and the East" by D.P. Costello. Typed, 23 sides, undated. With identifying label.
Costello Desmond Patrick 1912-1964 Linguist, diplomat"The Chinese Literary Revolution - Its Aims and Achievements" by "Cogito, ergo sum". Prize-winning essay by Michael Salt. Typed, 27 pages within a black card folder, dated September 1964.
Salt Michael