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"A 1921 Letter to an Enquiring Stranger" by Witter Bynner and "Witter Bynner - A poet for our Times" by Horatio Colony, both published in The Literary Review, plus draft and published poems.

Correspondence concerning a 50th Birthday reception for the Prince of Wales. These are:

• Letter from Master of the Household, Buckingham Palace, to Lydia Collins, Royal Asiatic Society, to state the Queen's intention to host a reception at Buckingham Palace to mark Prince Charles' 50th birthday and asking the Society to nominate a representative to attend the event. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 18 August 1998.
• Invitation List for the Birthday Reception to be held in 13 November 1998. Printed form with handwritten insertions.

In 2008 the Asiatic Society celebrated its 225th anniversary. Correspondence connected with this anniversary is:

Letter from Ramakanta Chakrabarty, General Secretary, Asiatic Society, to The President, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform of the forthcoming anniversary celebrations and to request the President's presence at the Inaugural Ceremony. Dated 14 August 2007.

Letter from Professor Anthony Stockwell, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to Professor Ramakanta Chakrabarty, General Secretary, Asiatic Society, to write on behalf of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to send congratulations upon the anniversary but to send regrets that he will be unable to attend. Dated 19 November 2007.

In 2022, three Burton Memorial Medals were given by the Royal Asiatic Society to:

• Dr. Peter Alford Andrews and Mrs. Mügül Andrews for their study on Eurasian tents.
• Pepita Seth for her exploration of the closed worlds of the Guruvayur Temple and Theyyam Rituals in Kerala.
• Professor Tim Williams for his exploration, archaeological and documentation projects in Beirut and Central Asia, and for his collaborations with local partners on the Silk Road and for UNESCO and ICOMOS Silk Roads mapping.

Much of the material concerned with the awarding of these medals is still within the current records. However there are some publicity material and photographs. Associated with the award of the medal in 2022 is:

• 'The Sir Richard Burton Medal, 2022' - part of the blogpost, Reflecting on 2021, posted on 17 December 2021. Archival electronic document created in September 2024.

The Report and Financial Statements for the Society were no longer published in the Society's Journal after 2011. Therefore these have been included within these archives. The material available for the Anniversary General Meetings from 2021 to present is:

2021
In 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Anniversary General Meeting was held using the online platform, Zoom. The collated material is:

• Notification concerning Election of Officers for 2021, 3 pieces.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 27 May 2021, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
• Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2020, 18 pieces

• Photographs of preparations for holding the AGM via Zoom, 4 digital images.

  2022

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 12 May 2022, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
• Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2021, 18 pieces.

• Poster for AGM Lecture by Vaseem Khan. The lecture was entitled: Killing Gandhi, Dante's Divine Comedy and India at the Crossroads. 2 digital images
  *. Menu for the Anniversary General Meeting Dinner held at the Oriental Club, 2 copies.

  2023

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 18 May 2023, with Election of Council Members, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2022, 24 pieces.
• Minutes of the Anniversary General Meeting,18 May 2023, 1 piece.

• Photographs of the AGM, 8 digital images.

  2024

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 16 May 2024, with Election of Council Members, 4 pieces.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2023, 18 pieces.
• Poster for the AGM Lecture by Professor Dr Julia Hegewald. The lecture was entitled 'Jambūdvīpa and other Jaina Cosmological Representations from India', 1 digital image.
• Photographs of the AGM, 13 digital images.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2019-2020. These are mixed electronic and physical documents. The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 26 September 2019: Dr Stefan Halikowski-Smith, 'Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century'.
• 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation'. (Physical document.)
• 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean'.
• 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 November 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware'.
• 11 November 2019: 2019 Annual Rustaveli Day, Nino Strachey, 'Princess Tamara Imeretinsky' and Alec and Katya D'Janoeff, 'Michael Aramyants'.
• 12 November 2019: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'Vision and Landscape: New Perspectives on Oriental Scenery by Thomas and William Daniell'.
• 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent'.
• 19 November 2019: Dr Tilman Frasch, 'Bagan and the Theravada Buddhist Ecumene in the 12-13 Centuries CE'.
• 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values'.
• 10 December 2019: Dr George Mak, 'The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation'.
• 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch.
• 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London'.
• 21 January 2020: Dr Ed Pulford, 'Time and History across China's Northeastern Borders'.
• 25 February 2020: Annabel Teh Gallop, 'Malay Seais from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia'.
• 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment'.

The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs from:

• 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation', 6 images.
• 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean', 5 images.
• 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire', 3 images.
• 22 October 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware', 5 images.
• 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent', 4 images.
• 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values', 4 images.
• 10 December 2019: Dr George Mak, 'The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation', 4 images.
• 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch, 3 images.
• 17 December 2019: Alan Tritton, 'Scotland and the Indian Empire, book launch, 5 images.
• 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London', 2 images.
• 13 February 2020: Dr Simon O'Meara, 'The Ka'ba of Mecca as axis and matrix mundi', 4 images.
• 18 February 2020: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, ''Travelling and Collecting in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s: the collections of Růžena Charlota Urbanová in the National Musuem, Prague', 4 images.
• 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment', 5 images.

Copy of the Society's Standing Orders dated to January 2019.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2018-2019. These are mixed physical and electronic documents.

• 12 September 2018: Captain Jay Singh-Sohal, presentation of the film, 'Saragarhi: The True Story'.
• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game'.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition'.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein'.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture'.
• 23 October 2018: Peter Hibbard, 'More than a Stuffed Bird Show: The RAS Legacy in Shanghai'.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean'.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch.
• 6 November 2018: the Georgian Embassy, 'Unlocking the Door,' an evening of Georgian literature.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 8 November 2018: Dr Christoph Baumer, 'Central Asia in the 21st Century, lecture hosted by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Royal Asiatic Society, IB Tauris and the Centre for Contemporary Asia, and SOAS, held at Brunei gallery Lecture Theatre.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives'.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician'.
• 13 December 2018: Dr Alexandra Green, 'Sir Stamford Raffles: Civilised Views of Java'.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya'.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond'.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism'.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?'.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India'.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo'.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection'.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation'.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution'.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII'.
• 9 May 2019: Jonathan Phillips, '"Saladin we have returned!": The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era'.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', special ticketed event.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook'.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society'.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries'.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent'.
• 28 June 2019: Chanchal B. Dadlani, 'From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire'; and Ünver Rüstem, 'Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul', in conversation with Dr Sussan Babaie, book launch.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java'.

Photographs from:

• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game', 6 images.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition', 5 images.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein', 5 images.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture', 2 images.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean', 23 images.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch, 7 images.
• 6 November 2018: Professor Donald Rayfield, Dr. Gillian Evison and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili, 'Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia', 16 images.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch, 6 images.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch, 6 images.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives', 5 images.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician', 5 images.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya', 6 images.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond', 4 images.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism', 5 images.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?', 3 images.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India', 3 images.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo', 3 images.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection', 4 images.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation', 2 images.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch, 2 images.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution', 3 images.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII', 3 images.
• 9 May 2019: Professor Jonathan Phillips, ''Saladin, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era', 11 images.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', book launch, 9 images.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook', 8 images.
• 29 May 2019: Dominic Faulder, 'Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand', book launch, 6 images.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society', 3 images.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries', 5 images.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent', 4 images.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java' 5 images.