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The Society, in its history, has lent various of its collections to institutions on long term loans either because of specialist care needs of the items or because of a particular interest in the collections by the lending institution. The material in this series is the correspondence and documentation connected with these long term loans.

Typed list of material loaned or disposed of between 1943 and 1993 as extracted from the Council Munutes. Seven pages. Plus three letters concerned with the weeding of Library material for disposal. Dated 23 March - 3 April 1967.

Loans and Disposals 1931-1935. Correspondence and a typed list of items that have been loaned or disposed with from the Society's Collections in the period 1931-1934. This is a more modern list - it is unknown when it was created, 2 pages. The correspondence is:

• Three letters concerning the transfer of a packet of Papers of Robert Needham Cust to the School of Oriental and African Studies. Three typed letters, dated 27 July - 29 July 1932.
• Letter from the National Central Library to Royal Asiatic Society thanking for the two books given to the Society. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 27 October 1932.
• Three letters concerning the transfer from the Royal Asiatic Society to the Library, India Office, of a manuscript letter and report from J.J. Walker to Sir George T. Staunton, dated Fuhchow 1847. dated 14 November 1935- 23 June 1937.

Liu Hsieh as Literary Theorist, Critic, and Rhetorician, draft of Paul Y. Shao's dissertation sent by Shao to Graham with a letter from Shao to Graham requesting comments on the dissertation.

Lithographs from drawing of Buddhist sculptures by Lieutenant Ridge. The name, Dr. Birob is listed as associated with these lithographs.

Copy of a Hindi lithographed newspaper, the 'Shimla Akhbar', of 15th April 1848. Simon Digby notes that it includes a description and reproduction of a copper-plate inscription from Nirmand. He also notes that this printed material is likely from the same source (Henry Miers Elliot) as the Devanagari documents in this same collection.

Lithograph of a stupa by F. de J. following a drawing by Luitenant Ridge B. C. The print was possibly owned by a Dr. Bird.

This series is mainly offprints of articles written by Allen, that had been filed together under the heading of Literary Activities: Offprints. There is also a single letter.

This series consists of correspondence between William Allen and Vladimir Minorsky. The material dates from later in Minrosky's life but he is still active in producing translations of material. Much of the correspondence concerns both his and Allen's work in translation. There is also a printed bibliography.

This is a series of correspondence mainly between W.E.D. Allen and Terence Gray and Gray's wife, the Georgian princess Natalie Margaret Imeretinsky, mostly concerning Georgian genealogy.