Correspondence with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India, regarding the obtaining of articles from past copies of the Journal for the Library, dated 24 August 1979-13 December 1979. With the correspondence is a list of articles annotated to mark which articles are required by the Library. The Society was not able to conform to the whole request but sent offprints of some articles and suggested the Library obtain a microfiche of the Journals from the Inter Documentation Company.
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Correspondence with Alden Press Ltd. regarding the production and sale of offprints of the Society's Journals. There are seven items of correspondence including two estimates from Alden Press.
Sans titreCorrespondence concerned with the Journal sent and received in the 1950s and 1960s. These are:
- Correspondence concerning the publication of an article by the late Sir Ellis Minns on "Frozen Scythic Barrows". These include letters from [L.J] Lindgren to Sir Richard Winstedt, and William Watson, Assistant keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society. Four letters, dated 7 June 1954 - 15 February 1957. The last letter is annotated with a note to state that Dr Lindgren had failed to complete the editing of the article and more recent articles had now superseded its relevance.
- Letter from R.M.S. Morrison to Sir Richard Winstedt to thank him for agreeing to put the paper, "On the beginnings of the Ismaili Dawat in Northern India" by Dr. Abbas H. al-Hamdani before the Editorial Committee for possible publication in the Journal, dated 2 February 1956. With the letter is an extract from a letter by Dr al-Hamdani that Morrison had received.
- Letter from H. Ellinton to the Royal Asiatic Society, to enquire whether the Society had published a report on the excavations carried out by Dr Viola Pettit, dated 8 January 1957.
- Letter from K.A.C. Creswell to Sir Richard Winstedt complaining about the lack of reviews of his publications, dated 12 September 1962.
- Letter from Edward Ullendorff to D.M. Lang to inform that after the Conference in July he would be in a position to know which of the Ethiopic material would be relevant for the Journal, dated 11 April 1963.
- Correspondence concerning the printing of the article "Etudes d'Orientalisme dédiées à la mémoire de Lévi-Provencal". Three items, dated 18 November - 11 December 1963.
- Correspondence concerning an article by Mr. M. Abir which was considered to Asiatic for the Journal of African History and a subsequent later revised publication in Les Annales. Nine items, dated 18 February 1964- 9 November 1965.
Subscription Lists. Typed or computer generated, dated 1967-1970, 1971-1974, 1975-1978, 1979-1982 (institutions only), [1990], 1991 (4 sets), 1992, 1993 (2 sets), 1994 (+ list of institutions), 1995 (4 sets), 1997 (2 sets), 1998 (2 sets).
Sans titreJournal postage book detailing costs of postage and dates sent for the years 1937-1958.
Sans titreIndexes created of articles published in the Transactions and Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society. These are:
- Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society: Contents of Vols I, II, and III, 1823-1833. Typed list with handwritten front cover, 4 copies.
- Index of Journal Articles from 1834-1919 - handwritten list with some allied correspondence.
- Index to the Publications of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society during the years 1827-1888, printed pamphlet.
- Index to the Royal Asiatic Society's Journal for the years 1889-1892 inclusive, printed pamphlet
*. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Decade Index, 1920-1929, printed pamphlet. - Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Decade Index, 1930-1939, printed pamphlet.
- List of Articles in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1940-1950, printed pamphlet.
- "Decade Index" - typed titles of articles on individual pieces of paper made in preparation for the 1951-1960
- Decade Index. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society - 1940-1997: Alphabetical list of articles in JRAS by Author.
This series contains six original handwritten manuscripts of article submitted to the Journal plus an offprint of an 1830 article.
Sans titre'MSS Memoir on the Length of the Illahae Guz' by Colonel John Hodgson. This includes a letter pasted into the manuscript from Hodgson to Richard Clarke concerning the manuscript, dated 21 August 1841, and also a postscript written within the volume by Henry Newnham, dated 22 May 1824. The article appeared in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society XIII (1843), pp. 42-63.
Sans titre'Notes on the Chinese Game of Chess' by H.F.W. Holt, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society New Series, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1885), pp. 352-365. Holt was the Acting Interpreter, Agent and Assistant at the Ningpo Consulate in 1864.
Sans titreThis series include various objects and illustrations that are connected with the Journal's production. They include items associated with the printing of the Journal.
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