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Printed genealogical material and maps relating to two princely states of British India, Kharan and Makran, now part of the Balochistan/Baluchistan province of Pakistan, including:

• Offprint of Appendix I of Kharan Gazetteer, Volume VIIA of the Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series, 1907, being the printed genealogical tree of the Nausherwanis of Kharan and Makran. Note at the bottom states that the tree is in disagreement with that given in Makran Gazetteer published in the same Gazetteer series, and that this tree was prepared from information supplied by the Chief of Kharan so is probably more correct
• Printed genealogical tree of the Kakar Tribe which is found in the Kharan region, tracing the lineage of the tribe from Qais Abdul Rashid. Prepared by Mir Shams Shah, K. B., Settlement Extra Assistant Commissioner in Baluchistan, and produced by Major A. H. McMahon, Revenue Commissioner in Baluchistan, December 1901. Probably an appendix of an edition of the Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series
• Coloured printed map of Makran on a 1 inch to 16 miles scale, showing its boundaries, major roads, tracks and rivers. No. 28[8]8, printed by Thomason College, Roorkee in February 1907. 47cm (h) x 48cm (w)
• Coloured printed map of Kharan on a 1 inch to 10 miles scale, showing its boundaries, routes, rivers and Kharan Chief’s military outposts. No. 3235, printed by Thomason College, Roorkee in August 1907. 46cm (h) x 46cm (w)

Typed document containing a blurb of Martin Moir’s book ‘Not Exactly Shangri-La’, his biography, and a transcript of an interview of him discussing the book, November 2009.

‘Sir Richard Winstedt’, offprint from JRAS, October 1963, containing a biography and tributes to Richard Winstedt.

Press cuttings relating to Sir Edward Denison Ross, including several articles on his receiving the Royal Asiatic Society Gold Medal in 1935, a caricature of him, an interview of him in the Evening News, titled 'Some Chinese to Read - And a Little Tibetan!' (9 April 1935) and two photographs of him.

Letter from Sir Edward Colebrooke to Edwin Norris, RAS Secretary, enclosing a notice (not there) regarding the memorial of Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859).

Letters to James Redhouse, RAS Secretary, from Captain H. W. Raverty, first one dated 24 February 1863, rebuffing an article published by Lord Strangford, RAS President, in the Journal, which includes what Raverty regards as unjust remarks to him and his work on Pushtu (Pashto) grammar. The other two letters are both dated 16 May 1863, one (on blue paper) communicating his request to resign his membership, after finding out his reply to Lord Strangford's article is not to be published in the Journal, while the other one concerns the return of specimen of old Afghan writing and other writings.

Letter from Lady Winstedt, accepting the Council’s invitation to become a non-paying Fellow of the Society, with the copy outgoing letter, dated 20-23 April 1967.

Photocopy of a letter from Dennis Duncanson to Mrs Audrey Tee, sending condolences for the death of Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, dated 29 April 1983. Also includes a programme for the thanksgiving service of Turner and an obituary notice in the news.