"The Influence of Sea-Power on the History of the East India Company". The prize-winning essay by Asa Briggs. The front page has notes by the Committee members on their opinions of the essay. The final page is the identifier of the essay writer as Asa Briggs and the authentication by his tutor. Typed with handwritten annotations, 17 pages.
Briggs Asa 1921-2016 Historian"British Application of the Aryan Theory of Race to India 1850-1870" - prize winning essay by Joan Leopold. Typed with handwritten annotations, 45 pages.
Leopold Joan"The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia" - prize-winning essay by David Shulman. Typed, 22 pages.
Shulman DavidThe 1934 prize-winning essay, "The Importance of the Physical features of India for the Understanding of her History" by "Honesta Obtinete", pseudonym for Dorothy A.L. Stede. Typed material, 28 pages with additional label page.
Stede DorothyEssay: "The History of the Relations of the British with Malaya and Java (1780-1867)". The first prize winning essay, typed manuscript, 26 pages, with identifying label. Also with the essay is a covering letter from Albert John Chapman to Mr Hoysted to say that he is sending a fresh copy of his essay which is copied verbatim from the original. Handwritten letter, dated 20 December 1938.
Chapman Albert John"The Rise and Fall of the Maratha Power". Prizewinning essay by N.S. Adams. Handwritten, 20 pages. With this essay is a handwritten title page, dated 20 March 1949.
Adams N.S.The original draft of 'Essay on the architecture of the Hindús' written by Ram Raz. The draft is incomplete beginning at page 13. With the draft is a letter from Horace Hayamn Wilson to Captain Henry Harkness, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, in which Wilson thanks Harkness for sending a note written by Ram Raz concerning the date of the foundation of the Pandyan monarchy. Hayman is not convinced by Ram Raz's argument. This is dated 1 September 1835.
Ram Raz 1790-1833"Essay Prize of the Royal Asiatic Society" - newspaper cutting from The Times newspaper to announce that the Universities Prize Essay is to be awarded to Miss D.A.L. Stede of Girton College. Printed material, dated 17 January 1935.
Two essays submitted for the 1940 Prize Competition.
Mowat Geoffrey Scott 1917-2008 Malaya civil servantThere are two prize winning essays belonging to N.A.D. Macrae and G.A. Cary.
Macrae Norman Alastair Duncan 1923-2010 Economist