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Correspondence with the Inland Revenue Chief Inspector of Taxes and Price Waterhouse & Co., concerning the investment of the B.C. Trust Fund, 2 items, dated 29 April 1970 - 15 May 1970.

Correspondence from 1968 and 1969. These are:

Letter from S.K. Mitra, General Secretary, Asiatic Society, to the Secretary, Royal Central Asiatic Society to inform that Professor Dr. N.N. Das Gupta is going to Europe and they would like to take this opportunity of strengthening bonds with the Society. Dated 5 September 1968.

Letter from S.K. Mitra, General Secretary, Asiatic Society, to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to give the academic qualifications of Dr Chatterjee. Dated 12 March 1969.

• Letter to Sir Harold Bailey to inquire whether Louis Bazin is still the Treasurer of the International Union of Orientalists, dated 20 February 1968.
• Letter from Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Treasurer, International Union of Orientalists, to send the Society's contribution, dated February 1968.

Letter from Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Treasurer, International Union of Orientalists, to send the Society's contribution, dated 24 October 1966.

• Letter from Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Treasurer, International Union of Orientalists, to send the Society's contribution, dated 7 October 1965.
• Letter from Treasurer, International Union of Orientalists, to Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to confirm receipt of the money, dated 14 October 1965.

Correspondence from the 1960s. This contains:

• Correspondence with Price Waterhouse & Co. concerning creating separate trust funds for staff pensions and dilapidation of the Society's property, 4 pieces, typed, dated 24 January 1964 - 25 May 1964.
• Correspondence with the Royal Society and British Academy regarding rate relief for the Royal Asiatic Society and obtaining a grant from the British Academy to compensate for the change in rates, 35 pieces, typed, dated 30 April 1964 - 29 January 1970.
• Correspondence with Price Waterhouse & Co. concerning enquiries made by the Chief Inspector of Claims concerning new investments made by the Society, 2 pieces, typed, dated 16 November 1967 - 17 November 1967.

Correspondence concerned with the Journal sent and received in the 1950s and 1960s. These are:

• Correspondence concerning the publication of an article by the late Sir Ellis Minns on "Frozen Scythic Barrows". These include letters from [L.J] Lindgren to Sir Richard Winstedt, and William Watson, Assistant keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society. Four letters, dated 7 June 1954 - 15 February 1957. The last letter is annotated with a note to state that Dr Lindgren had failed to complete the editing of the article and more recent articles had now superseded its relevance.
• Letter from R.M.S. Morrison to Sir Richard Winstedt to thank him for agreeing to put the paper, "On the beginnings of the Ismaili Dawat in Northern India" by Dr. Abbas H. al-Hamdani before the Editorial Committee for possible publication in the Journal, dated 2 February 1956. With the letter is an extract from a letter by Dr al-Hamdani that Morrison had received.
• Letter from H. Ellinton to the Royal Asiatic Society, to enquire whether the Society had published a report on the excavations carried out by Dr Viola Pettit, dated 8 January 1957.
• Letter from K.A.C. Creswell to Sir Richard Winstedt complaining about the lack of reviews of his publications, dated 12 September 1962.
• Letter from Edward Ullendorff to D.M. Lang to inform that after the Conference in July he would be in a position to know which of the Ethiopic material would be relevant for the Journal, dated 11 April 1963.
• Correspondence concerning the printing of the article "Etudes d'Orientalisme dédiées à la mémoire de Lévi-Provencal". Three items, dated 18 November - 11 December 1963.
• Correspondence concerning an article by Mr. M. Abir which was considered to Asiatic for the Journal of African History and a subsequent later revised publication in Les Annales. Nine items, dated 18 February 1964- 9 November 1965.

Correspondence with the Inland Revenue Valuation Office, (St. Marylebone Area), concerning the Exemption from Rating for Scientific and Literary Societies as defined by the Scientific Societies Act, 1945, and how this ruling affects the rates paid by the Royal Asiatic Society, 4 items, dated 12 February 1952 - 17 September 1952.

Letter from B.S. Guha, General Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, to The Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, in response to the invitation by the Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Asiatic Society of Bengal has nominated Dr. Sunita Kumar Chatterji for election as a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Dated 5 September 1941.

Correspondence with H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Grosvenor District, and allied notes concerning covenanted subscriptions and Amendments of the Rules concerning membership, 16 pieces, dated 30 October 1942 - 29 December 1944.