"Three year plan for RAS Collections 2007-2009" stating plans concerning Collections Development, Catalogues and Cataloguing, Use of Collections, Electronic services. and Funding. Written by Helen Cordell, Honorary Librarian. Electronic document.
Sans titre"The Society's Collections: Principles & Procedures for Development & Disposals" - policy for the Collections management and development approved by the Council in June 2011. Electronic document.
Sans titreNext-of-Kin Form for volunteers to supply contact details in case of emergency. Electronic document.
Sans titre"Charges for Library Services: Access and Copying" - paper for the Council Meeting, 14 June 2007, to suggest charges for accessing the Collections for non-Fellows and for copying material. Electronic document written by Kathy Lazenblatt, Librarian, and Helen Cordell, Honorary Librarian.
Sans titreLetter from J.C. Melvill, India Office, to Reinhold Rost, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to acknowledge his letter and to inform that the Secretary of State for India is pleased to sanction temporary accommodation in the India Office Museum for the collections of the Society and that they will be exhibited as far as practicable. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 18 March 1869.
Sans titreCorrespondence, lists and a catalogue concerning the disposals of material in this period.
Sans titreLoans and Disposals 1931-1935. Correspondence and a typed list of items that have been loaned or disposed with from the Society's Collections in the period 1931-1934. This is a more modern list - it is unknown when it was created, 2 pages.
The correspondence is:
- Three letters concerning the transfer of a packet of Papers of Robert Needham Cust to the School of Oriental and African Studies. Three typed letters, dated 27 July - 29 July 1932.
- Letter from the National Central Library to Royal Asiatic Society thanking for the two books given to the Society. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 27 October 1932.
- Letter from L.D. Barnett to Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to send the papers relating to the sale of the Society's anthropological collections. The papers are not with the letter. Typed, 1 piece, dated 19 November 1935.
- Three letters concerning the transfer from the Royal Asiatic Society to the Library, India Office, of a manuscript letter and report from J.J. Walker to Sir George T. Staunton, dated Fuhchow 1847. dated 14 November 1935- 23 June 1937.
The Royal Asiatic Society leased the premises at 5 New Burlington Street from 1848 to 1869. There is no original archival material for this period. These papers consist of copies of a perspective drawing executed from Regent Street. There are 2 copies of this view with an explanatory note. And a further copy of numbers 78-86.
Sans titreThe Royal Asiatic Society leased the premises at 22 Albemarle Street from 1869-1919. These papers contain official lease documents, correspondence regarding the property and possible alternatives, and a more recent photograph.
Sans titreOfficial documents concerned with the lease, by the Royal Asiatic Society, of the upper part of 22 Albemarle Street from Asprey & Co. Ltd.
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