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School of Oriental and African Studies Appointment of Full-Time Lecturer to the Academic Staff of Angus Graham as Lecturer in Chinese.

Graham spent much of his academic career at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He held some visiting fellowships within his tenure there and after his retirement held several posts at universities in many locations. This series contains material connected with his appointments.

Approaches to Chinese Poetic Language - paper by Yu-kung Kao prepared for the International Conference of Sinology (August 15-17, 1980, Taipei).

Offprint of 'Arab and Chinese navigators in Malaysian waters in about A.D. 1500' by J.V. Mills, from the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume XLVII, part 2. The article has been annotated.

Correspondence regarding the possibility of holding an Arab day. These are:

• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to G.A. Calver to ask him to approach the Anglo-Arab Society, dated 9 May 1972.
• Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to ask whether they would be interested in holding a joint Arab Day, dated 26 May 1972.
• Letter from Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to G.A. Calver to inform that he will put the idea to his Council but also to raise some negatives regarding the idea, dated 23 June 1972.
• Letter from G.A. Calver to Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to answer his objections and to raise his own about the suggestion of having someone from the Arab League Office as a speaker, dated 12 July 1972.
• Letter from G.A. Calver to Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to ask if any progress had been made concerning the Arab day, dated 29 September 1972.
• Letter from David Llewellyn, Treasurer, Anglo-Arab Association, to G.A. Calver to inform that the Association would like to collaborate, dated 13 October 1972.
• Letter from Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to G.A. Calver to inform that the Association would like to collaborate and he has put David Llewellyn in charge of arranging matters, dated 17 October 1972.
• Letter from B.W. Robinson, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to David Llewellyn, Treasurer, Anglo-Arab Association, to provide some details of the purpose of the National Days, dated 7 December 1972.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to David Llewellyn, Treasurer, Anglo-Arab Association, to ask if the Association had made a decision regarding the Arab day, dated 19 January 1973.

Offprint of 'Arab navigation in the Red Sea' by Tibbetts from Volume CXXVII, part 3, of The Geographical Journal, 1961.

Two offprints of the article 'Arabia in the Fifteenth-Century Navigational Texts' by Tibbets from 'Arabian Studies', issue 1 edited by R.B. Serjeant and R.L. Bidwell. A decision was made to keep both copies as these had been individually annotated.

A photocopied list of Arabic manuscripts given to the Society in the 1940s by A.G. Ellis and a typed list of Arabic manuscripts given to the Society by Dr J. Hansman.

Correspondence connected with the Archaeological Joint Committee and its interactions with the Royal Asiatic Society. These are:

Letter from C.J. Gadd, Honorary Secretary, Archaeological Joint Committee, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to send a copy of a letter which has been sent to the Colonial Office, and to ask for its consideration at the next meeting of the Society's Council. Typed, dated 8 April 1832. With this letter is a copy of the letter sent by the Archaeological Joint Committee to the Colonial Office to ask for formal recognition of the Committee. Typed, dated April 1932.

Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to the Honorary Secretary, Archaeological Joint Committee, to state that the letter received would be brought before the Council at its next meeting. Typed, dated 13 April 1932.

Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to the Honorary Secretary, Archaeological Joint Committee, to state that the Council approve of all the suggestions made in the letter of the Archaeological Joint Committee to the Colonial Office. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 20 April 1932.

Letter from C.J. Gadd, Honorary Secretary, Archaeological Joint Committee, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask the Society to inform the Committee of the name of the Society's representative on the Committee. Typed with handwritten list of names of previous representatives, dated April 1943.

Agenda for the Royal Asiatic Society Council Meeting for 13 May 1943. Point 6 is for discussion of representatives for the Archaeological Joint Committee and delegates to attend the Conference on the Future of Archaeology. Typed.

Letter from Leonard Woolley to Richard Winstedt to express his honour in being nominated the Society's representative on the Archaeological Joint Committee. Handwritten with printed letterhead, dated 17 May 19443.

Letter from Edward S.M. Perowne, Solicitor, to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask of the outcome of the discussions at the Council Meeting regarding the Archaeological Joint Committee so he can inform the Institute of Archaeology. Handwritten with printed letterhead, dated 27 May 1943.

"University of London, Institute of Archaeology, Conference on the Future of Archaeology". Letter from Kathleen M. Kenyon, Acting Director, to inform of the upcoming conference to be held from 6-8 August 1943. Printed material with handwritten annotations.

Letter from President, Royal Asiatic Society, to Kathleen Kenyon to note that the geographical range of the forthcoming conference extends only from Britain to the Middle East, and therefore neglects that of India and the Far East. Typed, dated 11 June 1943.

Letter from Kathleen M. Kenyon, Acting Director, to Richard Winstedt, President, Royal Asiatic Society to inform of the reasons for not covering the Far East. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 18 June 1943.

"Archaeological Research in Indo-China: a review". A printed incomplete article by Erik Seidenfaden written for Antiquity. 2 sheets of printed material with handwritten annotations and inscription "Affectionately E.S.".