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1984 India tour plan / travel diary, notes and ephemera.

The material for this year contains:

• Letter from B.C. Bloomfield to Godfrey Goodwin, Director of Royal Asiatic Society, to send information concerning the national inter-lending scheme. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 2 February 1984. With this letter is a copy of one from M.B. Line to Bloomfield explaining the procedure.
• Letter from Anthony Bennell to Director, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that he would be unable to attend the Library Committee Meeting that had been called for 7 and 8 March. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 21 February 1984.
• Letter from Dr. G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville to Charles to provide the details of a bookbinder. Typed letter, dated 16 April 1984. With this is a further typed note of a letter sent to the book binder, dated 24 May, 1984.
• Agenda and Minutes for Library Committee Meeting, 7 March 1984.
• Minutes of the Library Committee Meeting, 23 May 1984.

The series contains correspondence regarding the conferment of the Medal; correspondence regarding purchase of the Medal; Newspaper cuttings; Correspondence from Dr Ahamad Hussain about applying to receive the Medal; and family correpsondence.

Special General Meetings were called in 1984 and again in 1987 concerning finding new premises for the Society. The material from these meetings is:

Special General Meeting 12 January 1984

• Notice of the Meeting accompanied by a Note from the Director, 1 item, dated 15 December 1983.

  Special General Meeting 12 March 1987

• Notice of the Special General Meeting concerning the removal of a limitation in the Society's Charter, 1 item, dated 23 February 1987.

• Notification of where Members of the Council may see the draft documents, 1 item, dated 5 March 1987.

  Special General Meeting 9 April 1987

• Notice of Special General Meeting and a circular letter entitled 'A Policy on Premises, 2 items, undated.

• Correspondence from Fellows concerning the meeting and their views on A Policy on Premises, 11 items, dated 31 March - 8 April 1987.

  Special General Meeting 11 June 1987

• Notice of the Special General Meeting to enable the Council to dispose of the lease of 56 Queen Anne Street following the successful purchase of 60 Queen's Gardens, 1 item, dated 26 May 1987.

There is a single item for 1985: Minutes of the Library Committee Meeting for 7 January 1985.

Correspondence sent and received by Graham between 1985 and 1990.

The material for 1986 contains:

• Minutes for the Library Committee Meeting, 9 January 1986. With this is a paper by the Library Policy Committee concerning the Collections. Typed documents.
• "Redefinition of the Library" - report proposing a Team of Experts should work with the Librarian to identify material to be declassified.
• Agenda and Minutes for Library Committee Meeting, 6 October 1986.
• Agenda and Minutes for Library Committee Meeting, 10 November 1986.
• Agenda and Minutes for Library Committee Meeting 8 December 1986.

• Correspondence between Tan Sri Datuk Mubin Sheppard, Honorary Secretary, Malaysian Branch, and the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, regarding the exchange of advertisements for the Societies in each Society's Journal. Five letters, typed, dated 5 December 1986-30 July 1987.
• Correspondence between Tan Sri Datuk Mubin Sheppard, Honorary Secretary, Malaysian Branch, and the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, regarding the change of address of the Malaysian Branch. Two letters, typed, dated 5 February-16 February 1988.
• "The Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. A Complete List of Members of the MBRAS on 1st December 1989". Printed pamphlet.

The material available for 1987 is:

• Agenda for Library Committee Meeting 12 February 1987
• Librarian's Report for August 1987
• Library Budget 1987-1988

The material available for 1988 is:

• Minute of the Library Committee Meeting, 24 February 1988. With this is a Report on the Library by Godfrey Goodwin, Librarian, dated 2 February 1988.
• Agenda and Minutes for Library Committee Meeting, 11 May 1988. With these is a Report to the Library Committee, 14 April 1998.
• Conservation Report on the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society by Nicholas Pickwood, 25 May 1988. With this is a copy of a letter from Godfrey Goodwin to Nicholas Pickwood, dated 22 June 1988.
• "The Library" - copy of a handwritten report on the Work in progress, undated but information contained dates it to mid-1988.
• Agenda and Minutes for the Library Committee Meeting 6 October 1988, with Librarian Report, 30 September 1988 and Draft Purchasing Policy.