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Letter from Professor S.G. Vesey-Fitzgerald, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), to Sir Richard Winstedt, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the University's Librarian had looked through the list of Law Books which the Society were wanting to dispose and that they were willing to pay £10 for the volumes with the price less expenses paid to the Society for any volumes that they sell. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 25 March 1949.

Correspondence regarding the disposal of volumes of the British Museum Quarterly, Man, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, to the Library at the University of Wales in Newport. Three items.

Correspondence regarding the disposal of volumes of Man, Journal of Ethnological Society of London, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, and The Geographical Journal to the Library at the University of Durham. Four items.

Correspondence regarding the disposal of volumes of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, and The Geographical Journal, to the Royal Geographical Society Library. One item.

Acknowledgement slip for the disposal of some volumes of the Numismatic Chronicle to the British Museum. One item.

Correspondence and lists concerning further Chinese material deposited with the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, in 2005. Consists of the official acknowledgment slip and three sets of lists.

Letter from The Warburg Institute to thank for the donation of two volumes presented to their Library. One item, dated 18 November 2010.

Letters of Acknowledgement of receipt of five volumes of Myanma Sway-Son Kyan and 50 volumes of the Bulletin of the National Library of Peiping given to the Library at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Two items.

"Disposal of Assets: A Memorandum from the Director". Notice from RAS Director, D.J. Duncanson to inform Fellows not present at the Special General Meeting of 9 December 1993 that there were no further disposals of material of historic interest under consideration or likely to be proposed in the foreseeable future. With this Memorandum is a copy of the "Appendix to Report of Council 1993" regarding the disposal of the Farquhar Albums of drawings of Malaysian wildlife in order to raise funds for the Society. Typed documents.

A series of discourses on Muslim doctrine and ethics, said at its beginning to be the Kalām of Murtada (Murtaza) Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib which has been translated from a Persian rendering of the original Arabic into a dialect of "Western Hindustani" in a variety of the Khojki Sindh script. This information is obtained from a typed note which has been pasted into the volume and signed by Lionel David Barnett, dated March 1931.