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"Lord Ellenborough's Defence from beyond the Tomb: Three Articles from the Calcutta "Englishman" May 1874" Pamphlet made from gluing articles into a notebook. Hodgson has added to cover "received July 17/74 BHH". Printed material, 1 item May-July 1874.

"Lord Beaconsfield. A Sketch. By Captain Richard F. Burton". [1882] On the fly-leaf “Given to me by Mr Francis Hitchman; the biographer of Lord Beaconsfield. Only 25 copies printed. R. Garnett.” Green quarter and corners leather, green and black marbled boards. Ex libris: Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery.

Loose sheets from notebook(s) with mathematical problems and propositions. Includes "Of the vibrations of a Mus(ical) String"

Loose photographs:

• Colour photograph of a wayside shrine with figures. Legend "Orissa, wayside beliefs"
• 2 photographs of family groups
• 2 photograph's of wall paintings
• photograph of a statue of Shiva

These include both botanical and other sketches including a butterfly and a building. The notes are in more than one hand, some accompanying the drawings, some describing specimens and one concerning mixing of paint.

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.
• Letter from L.D. Barnett to Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to send the papers relating to the sale of the Society's anthropological collections. The papers are not with the letter. Typed, 1 piece, dated 19 November 1935.
• 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.

Policy documents concerning the loan of items from the collections to other institutions:

• 'Borrowing items from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections for public exhibitions: Policy and Procedures' - policy document created for the Council Meeting of 16 June 2005.

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.