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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).

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
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.

Dennis Wood
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/30-RAS UPE/30/3 · File · 1971
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Universities Prize Essay Fund

"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