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Ephemera
GB 891 RAS GOV9-RAS GOV9/7 · Series · 1823 - ongoing
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Administration

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 Ireland
Ephemera
GB 891 RAS JOUR-RAS JOUR/17 · Series · 1824 - ongoing
Part of Royal Asiatic Society: Journal

This 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 Ireland
Escorts in Tibet
GB 891 FM-FM/2 · Series · 1938 - [1970s]
Part of Papers of Fleming Mackenzie

A 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 Fleming
Essay
GB 891 RAS UPE-RAS UPE/4-RAS UPE/4/2 · File · 1935
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Universities Prize Essay Fund

Essay - "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 Glyndwr
Essay
GB 891 RAS UPE-RAS UPE/5-RAS UPE/5/3 · File · 1936
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Universities Prize Essay Fund

Essay - "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, Dennis
Essay
GB 891 RAS UPE-RAS UPE/6-RAS UPE/6/3 · File · 1937
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Universities Prize Essay Fund

The 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
Essay
GB 891 RAS UPE-RAS UPE/26-RAS UPE/26/2 · File · Sep 1964
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Universities Prize Essay Fund

"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