All new researchers have to register their details before accessing the Collections. For the most part these exist only as current records and are disposed of at the end of their retention schedule. There is only one historic document that has been kept related in some way to researcher registration. This is a bound leather volume entitled "Names of Visitors to the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society, Great Britain and Ireland, 1832". At this time the Society had in its possessions many museum objects. The majority of these have now been dispersed to other institutions.
The volume is a registration book for visitors to the Museum covering the period January 1832-January 1840 on pp.1-123, and February 1848-June 1849 on pp. 125-126. It should be noted that on the outside of the Ledger is a label which reads "Committee of Agriculture and Commerce" and on pp.151-157 is an article, "Cost of Carrying Cotton" extracted from "The Friends of India..." dated 23 July 1861. On pp. 158-159 is an extract from the Council Meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society, 16 January 1871. The other pages are hand-numbered but are blank. Leather bound volume with ruled pages, handwritten. The binding is in a fragile condition and the leather has some red rot.
Four files concerned with musical compositions, both by Graham and others.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991Musical notation connecting notes and sound. Handwritten, 1 piece, 1 side
"Mysticism and rationality: Frits Staal's 'Exploring mysticism"'. Draft review of Staal's book by Angus Graham.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991Mysticism and the question of private access by Angus Graham was published in Rules, Rituals and Responsibility: Essays Dedicated to Herbert Fingarette, edited by Mary L. Bockover, Open Court 1991. This material consists of a draft of the article and correspondence concerning it.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991Correspondence from the interaction of the Mythic Society, based in Bangalore, and the Royal Asiatic Society. These are:
- Invitation from the President and Council of the Mythic Society, Bangalore, to attend the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of the Society on 27 November 1934. With the invitation is a Programme of Events. Both printed.
- Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to the General Secretary, Mythic Society, to send the Society's thanks for the invitation to the Silver Jubilee celebrations, to send congratulations, and their regrets that the invitation arrived too late for them to send a representative. Typed, dated 11 December 1934.
- Letter from the Manager, Mythic Society, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to provide a sketch of the activities of the Mythic Society. Typed, dated 31 March 1989.
One in the series of four maps of Thailand.
Scale: 1:1,000,000
Size: 70x60 cm
Creator: Royal Survey Dept, Bangkok
Publisher: RSD, Bangkok
Place of printing: Bangkok
Area: South of Thailand
The map is stamped with "The Greater India Research Committee".
"Nahhanah Tittha Mangala, The River-bathing Ceremony in Siam", by Quaritch Wales, reprinted from the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, Vol.VI, Part 4,1932. P.957-962. Pamphlet with soft cover.
"Told by Jíwan Sinh, Brahman of Bágí and recorded by the same of Denrádúr": Nahín aisό janm bárambár… With translation: Such a life can not come over and over again… Unsigned but in Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 2 sides, undated.
Two tables listing the communities of the zamindars (landlords) in the parganas of [ ] and Akbarabad (Agra). These are signed and stamped with the signees' seals, one of which dates the table to 1228 Hijri (1813 A.D.). One table also list the Tahsildars (revenue agents) as well as the zamindars. The tables are written in Shikasta Nasta'liq script.
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