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Letter from W.E.D. Allen to Terence Armstrong with which Allen returns the volume II proofs to Armstrong with minor corrections. With the letter is a receipt for a registered postal packet. Dated: 1 December 1969.

Letter from Diane Blake, Cambridge University Press, to W.E.D. Allen in which Blake writes of a misunderstanding of her comments regarding the captions of the illustrations. Dated: 2 March 1970.

Letter from Terence Armstrong to W.E.D. Allen to inform Allen that copies of 'Embassies' will be available in June and will be published in July 1970. Sent by Armstrong's secretary on his behalf. Dated: 8 April 1970.

Correspondence connected with the organisation of Lectures:

• Correspondence with Dr Klaus Fischer, 12 items, dated 25 March 1969 - 21 March 1971.
• Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr J.C. Marr, held jointly with the Linnean Society, 22 items, dated 30 April 1969 - 25 September 1970.
• Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr R.S. McGregor, 4 items, dated 7 May 1969 - 15 May 1970.
• Correspondence with Miss Margaret N. Bainbridge, 4 items dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with H.T. Norris, 6 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Dr Skillend, 5 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Professor W.E. Emery, 3 items, dated 7 May 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr J.C. Harle, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 3 November 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr G.B. Milner, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 15 January 1971.
• Correspondence with G. Seager, 10 items, dated 5 June 1970 - 21 December 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr J.D. Latham, 3 items, dated 17 June 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Sir Ralph Turner, 1 item, dated 26 June 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr F.R. Allchin, 2 items, dated 31 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr James Dickie, 4 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 10 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Dr J.G. Coates, 10 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 17 March 1972.
• Correspondence with Hugh Richardson, 1 item, dated 6 June 1971.
• Correspondence with Professor Harry Smith, 4 items, dated 22 June 1971 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Professor C. Dowsett, 9 items, dated 1 July 1971 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with B.D. Doe, 3 items, dated 13 July 1971 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Helen W. Brown, 3 items, dated 21 July 1971 - 2 August 1971.
• Correspondence with R.W. Skelton, 4 items, dated 9 August 1971 - 20 January 1972.
• Confirmation of lecture by Anthony Hutt, 1 item, dated 9 December 1971.
• Correspondence with D.J. Duncanson, 4 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 28 July 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor P.L. Gupta, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 5 May 1972.
• Correspondence with Dr John Boardman, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 25 April 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor B. Lewis, 3 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 1 May 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr R.D. Barnett, 7 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 8 December 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor James Barr, 5 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 4 September 1972.
• Correspondence with David James, 4 items, dated 31 May 1972 - 22 February 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor Mary Boyce, 3 items, dated 1 June 1972 - 20 July 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor J.B. Segal, 3 items, dated 6 October 1972 - 13 May 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr Carmen Blacker, 6 items, dated 7 April 1972 - 19 December 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor Maurice Freedman, 4 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 11 July 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr M.A. Shaban, 9 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 12 June 1973.
• Correspondence with F.E. Thompson, 1 item, dated 14 November 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor C.R. Bawden, 8 items, dated 5 December 1972 - 12 August 1974.
• Correspondence with Sir John Pilcher, 2 items, dated 21 January 1973 - 23 January 1973.
• Correspondence with John Leach, 5 items, dated 3 February 1973 - 7 May 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr E.D. O'Flaherty, 4 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr Michael Loewe, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 16 May 1973.
• Correspondence with John Ayers, 5 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 3 October 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr May H. Beattie, 14 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 18 March 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor A.F.L. Beeston, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 6 June 1973.
• Correspondence with Sir Gerard Clauson, 3 items, dated 15 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor C.E. Bosworth, 3 items, dated 21 May 1973 - 13 June 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr R.F. Gombrich, 3 items, dated 22 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor V.L. Menage, 3 items, dated 29 June 1973 - 31 May 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor W.N. Arafat, 2 items, dated 31 July 1973 - 2 August 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr W.G. Archer, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 3 September 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor E.J.H. Corner, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr John Hansman, 1 item, dated 30 April 1974.
• Correspondence with P.T. Denwood, 4 items, dated 4 June 1974 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr Susan Skilliter, 4 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 30 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor D. Wiseman, 2 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 8 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr E. Sollberger, 3 items, dated 9 July 1974 - 30 July 1974.
• Internal correspondence regarding lectures, 7 items, dated 24 January 1971 - 15 August 1974.
• Material for the Minorsky Memorial Lecture, 1977.

Meeting Cards, Notices of Lectures Series, and Notices of Change of lecture dates, and Correspondence connected to Lectures and General Meetings held between 1990 and 1999.

Lecture cards, publicity posters, and photographs for lectures held between 2010 and 2020. This includes material for the main Lecture Series, Book Launches and the Student Series which ran until 2016 when the two series were combined.

Publicity Posters for 2011-2012. These are all held electronically.

• 13 October 2011: Richard Bowring, 'Bushidō: Yet another invented tradition'.
• 10 November 2011: Briony Llewellyn, 'Painted Embroideries: Interwoven Threads in the Orientalist Images of John Frederick Lewis'.
• 23 November 2011: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, 'Revisiting dance and drama in Bali: interpreting a photo archive for exhibition'.
• 8 December 2011: Dr Randolf G. S. Cooper, 'Afghanistan's Future as Viewed from Hindustan's Military Past'.
• 12 December 2011: Robert Ousterhout, 'Three Intersecting Lives: Archaeologists and Travellers in Ottoman Lands'.
• 12 January 2012: Ming Wilson, 'Dressed to Rule – The Chinese Emperor's Wardrobe'.
• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones'.
• 7 February 2012: Dr Monika Bincsik, 'The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements'.
• 16 February 2012: Peng Wenlan, 'The Chinese in Bengal'.
• 8 March 2012: Dr Joya Chatterji, 'An Alternative History of India-Pakistan Relations'.
• 3 May 2012: Lady Julia Boyd, 'A Dance with the Dragon: Peking's foreign community, 1860-1949'.
• 14 June 2012: Dr Rogério Miguel Puga, 'The British Presence in Macao and Representations of the Enclave in British Travel Writing'.
• 18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 July 2012: Paul French, 'The Haunted Last Days of Old China'.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2015-2016. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

RAS Lectures and Book Launches:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fileds: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu'.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)'.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah'.
• 18 November 2015: Liana Siaf, 'The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy', book launch.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture'.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah football', film an ddiscussion.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship'.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period'.
• 16 March 2016: John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', celebrating the bicentenary of Britain and Nepal, 1816-2016.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, 'Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer'.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 26 May 2016: Celia Washington, 'Artist in Residence: Celia Washington and the Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre'. (Electronic document.)
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia'.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918' (Electronic document).
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif. (Electronic document.)
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London' book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives'. (Electronic document.)
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch. (Electronic document.)

• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith'. (Electronic document.)

  Fresh Perspectives Series:

• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry'. (Electronic document.)
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: The influence of palace women on Hindustani music'.
• 17 November 2015: Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami'.
• 8 December 2105: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th-Century Philippine Island'.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World'.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East'.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India'.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China'. (Electronic document.)
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century'.(Electronic document.)

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2017-2018. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 26 October 2017: Professor Francis Robinson, Marion Molteno and Dr Rakjshanda Jalil. 'A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose" A new edition of Ralph Russell's translations with introduction by Marion Molteno', book launch.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870'.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan'.
• 21 November 2107: RAS Collections Evening.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an'.
• 4 December 2017: Mark Condos, 'The Insecurity State', book launch.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection'.
• 13 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China'.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911'.
• 17 January 2018: "Anglo-Indian and Minority Politics in South Asia" by Uther Charlton-Stevens, 'Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962" by Elisabetta Iob, "Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000" by Tommaso Bobbio; book launches with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930'.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India'.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh'.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880'.
• 26 February 2018: Rohan Deb Roy, 'Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909', book launch.
• 6 March 2018: Professor Mercedes Volait, 'The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum'.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam'.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran'.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum'.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century'.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives'.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia'.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'.
• 17 May 2018: Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, 'The Royal Asiatic Society's recruitment of elite Indians in its foundational years, making specific reference to the relationship between the RAS's VP Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849) and King Serfoji II of Tanjore (r. 1798-1832)'.
• 24 May 2018: Dr Susan Whitfield, 'Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road'.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context'.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West'.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic'.
• 15 June 2018: John de Lucy, 'The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 & their role in the First World War'; and Frances Wood, 'Essential but Unacknowledged: The Contribution of the CLC in WW1', lectures as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Exhibition Roadshow at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 May-18 June 2018.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch.
• 11 July 2018: Farrukh Husain & Victoria Schofield, 'Afghanistan in the Age of Empires'.

Two small individual rough sketches in pencil depicting a seated figure of the Buddha and a group of figures mounted onto a larger sheet of paper.