The First New Barwis-Holliday Award was given to David Branner for his paper, 'On early Chinese morphology and its intellectual history'. The archival material is:
- 'Barwis-Holliday Award for far Eastern Studies' - an advert for the award with guideline for submission.
- Reports from Sarah Ansari and Tim H. Barrett on the submissions, undated and dated 9 September 2002.
- Copies of emails within the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the prize-winner, dated 18 October - 27 November 2002.
- Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to Lloyds TSB Bank to send a payment to the account of David Branner, dated 23 January 2003.