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"British Application of the Aryan Theory of Race to India 1850-1870" - prize winning essay by Joan Leopold. Typed with handwritten annotations, 45 pages.

"The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia" - prize-winning essay by David Shulman. Typed, 22 pages.

The 1934 prize-winning essay, "The Importance of the Physical features of India for the Understanding of her History" by "Honesta Obtinete", pseudonym for Dorothy A.L. Stede. Typed material, 28 pages with additional label page.

Essay: "The History of the Relations of the British with Malaya and Java (1780-1867)". The first prize winning essay, typed manuscript, 26 pages, with identifying label. Also with the essay is a covering letter from Albert John Chapman to Mr Hoysted to say that he is sending a fresh copy of his essay which is copied verbatim from the original. Handwritten letter, dated 20 December 1938.

"The Rise and Fall of the Maratha Power". Prizewinning essay by N.S. Adams. Handwritten, 20 pages. With this essay is a handwritten title page, dated 20 March 1949.

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).

"Ergative Semantic Chinese: A Research Project On the Semantic Structure of Chinese" by Kung-yi Kao, Stanford University - draft article.

'Epitome of the Rise of the Mahratta Empire' - a history of the Maratha Empire by an unknown author.

Episode of Dona Ignez de Castro. The Lusiads of Camoens, Canto III, stanzas 118-135, printed for private circulation 1879, Harrison & Sons, London. This is a typewritten copy of RB/2/10. Typed Copy of Pamphlet originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntingdon Library, California).

Ephemera associated with the governance of the Society including headed notepaper, copies of death certificates, examples of seals and logos and a photographic copy of a picture of the interior of the Thatched House Club where the initial meeting of the Society was held.