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GB 891 RAS GOV3-RAS GOV3/8-RAS GOV3/8/5 · File · 1968 - 2018
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Royal Patronage

Correspondence and administrative documents concerning invitations to attend a Buckingham Palace Garden Party. There is a single digital photograph of the three attendees for the 2018 Garden Party. There are:

  • List of attendees of Buckingham Palace Garden Parties from 1965-1992. Handwritten list
  • Letter from the Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to invite 4 people from the Society to attend a Garden Party. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 5 February 1998.
  • Envelope from Buckingham Palace on which a handwritten list has been added concerning people who have already been to a Garden Party. Postmarked 5 February 1998.
  • Letter from Francis Robinson to John Payne to inquire whether he and his wife would like to attend the Garden Party. Typed, dated 25 February 1998.
  • Notes for Guidance in Completing Garden Party Invitation Lists - typed sheet.
  • Invitation List listing Professor Anthony Stockwell and Mr Adrian Thomas and families as the attendees for a Garden Party. Printed list with handwritten inserts, undated.
  • Letter from the Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to invite 4 people from the Society to attend a Garden Party. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 2 February 2001.
  • Invitation Lists with Thomas Noel Guina and Professor Francis Robinson as attendees. Printed list with handwritten insertions, undated.
  • Letter from the Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to invite 4 people from the Society to attend a Garden Party. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 21 January 2004.
  • Invitation List listing Mrs Charlotte De Blois, Mrs Alison Lowe, Mrs Alison Ohta and Mr Kaveh Bakhtiar as attendees. Printed with handwritten insertions, undated.
  • Digital photograph of Dr Gordon Johnson, Mr Lionel Knight and Professor Anthony Stockwell at the 2018 Garden Party.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, England
Buddhism
GB 891 SC2-SC2/6 · File · [1900 - 1923]
Part of Notebooks on India

An unlabelled notebook whose notes seem to principally be on Buddhism taken from sources such as Max Muller, Kern, Dr Sridhar V. Ketkan, Pramathanath Banerjee. Inserted in the back of the notebook are 4 printed pamphlets. These are:

  • India's Early Religious History by Robert Ernest Hume, Outlines of a course of lectures at the University of Panjab, December 1923
  • Lecture II: The Priestly Hinduism of the Brahmanas (-800 B.C.)
  • Lecture III: The First Off-shoots of Hinduism: Jainism
  • Lecture IV: Legalistic Hinduism
GB 891 BHH-BHH/8-BHH/8/1 · File · 1847
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

"Buddhist Explanation of the symbols found on the coins & inscriptions of various ruins in the plains of India." Rough copy of List and explanation of symbols by Hodgson. Note on back: To Col Sykes Jan 21 1847, to Roy Asi Socy Sept 28/60. Handwritten with pencil diagrams, 1 piece, 4 sides, dated 1847.

Hodgson Brian Houghton 1800-1894 Orientalist