Correspondence concerning General Meetings. These are:

• Photocopy of a letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Phillipp Franz von Siebold to invite him to be present at the Meeting of the Society on 15 June 1850, handwritten, 2 pieces, dated 14 June 1850. The original of this letter is held at the Brandenstein Archive, Schlüchtern-Elm, Germany. Accompanying the letter are computer-printed transcripts in English and French of a letter from Phillipp Franz von Siebold to the Admiralty in London, dated 17 June 1850.
• Letter from James Whatman Bosanquet to Edwin Norris concerning whether Mr Dunbar should come from the Isle of Wight to deliver his paper, 2 sides, dated 30 March 1858.

Correspondence connected with the organisation of Lectures:

• Correspondence with Dr D. L. Snellgrove, 9 items, dated 30 July 1964 - 6 November 1964. These include correspondence from The Education and Scientific Officer, India House, the Royal Afghan Embassy, and the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia about attending the event.
• Correspondence with E.H.S. Simmonds, 3 items, dated 30 July 1964 - 2 September 1964.
• Correspondence with Miss E.M. Boyce, 14 items, dated 13 October 1964 - 17 May 1965.
• Correspondence with J. Burton-Page, 3 items, dated 21 October 1964 - 17 December 1964.
• Correspondence with Dr J. Elfenbein, 6 items, dated 6 November 1964 - 11 June 1965.
• Correspondence with H.E. Richardson, 1 item, dated 6 November 1964.
• Correspondence with Professor E.G. Pulleybank, 8 items, dated 6 November 1964 - 9 April 1965.
• Correspondence with Dr Cheng Te-kun, 6 items, dated 30 November 1964 - 15 February 1965.
• Correspondence with Dr Carmen Blacker, 7 items, dated 11 December 1964 - 15 March 1965.
• Correspondence with Dr I.M.P. Raeside, 8 items, dated 2 March 1965 - 15 April 1966.
• Correspondence with Dr C.R. Bawden, 13 items, dated 2 March 1965 - 13 June 1966.
• Correspondence with Professor W.B. Emery, 6 items, dated 2 March 1965 - 24 May 1966.
• Correspondence with Yigael Yadin, 10 items, dated 5 March 1965 - 21 November 1966.
• Correspondence with Dr G. de Casparie, 10 items, dated 8 March 1965 - 21 December 1966.
• Correspondence with Dr K.M. Kenyon, 5 items, dated 11 March 1965 - 15 March 1966.
• Correspondence with Professor Owen Lattimore, 6 items, dated 15 March 1965 - 16 December 1965.
• Correspondence with Ralph Russell, 7 items, dated 15 March 1965 - 22 February 1966.
• Correspondence with Basil W. Robinson, 5 items, dated 20 May 1965 - 26 October 1965.
• Correspondence with Professor G.H. Luce, 1 item, dated 22 July 1965.
• Correspondence with Professor D. Twitchett, 8 items, dated 24 January 1966 - 13 January 1967.
• Correspondence with Dr S.M. Stern, 3 items, dated 14 July 1967 - 18 July 1967.

Printed admittance tickets for lectures held at the Society:

1970

• 8 January: E.H.S. Simmonds, 'Thai Dance Drama'.
• 21 January: Professor D.M. Lang, 'Cultures of the Caucasus'. This lecture was held in Edinburgh.
• 12 February: Dr V.J. Parry, 'Some Aspects of Ottoman Warfare'.
• 12 March: Dr L.E.R. Picken, 'Music at the T'ang Court'.
• 9 April: James Bynon, 'Berber Songs from the Atlas Mountains'.
• 28 May: Dr G. Fehérvári, 'Persian Lacquer-Painted Books'. This lecture was held in Durham.
• 11 June: Clifford Owen, 'Hunting with Animals'.
• 15 October: Dr J.R. Marr, 'Some Botanists of South and South-East Asia'. This was the Burkill Memorial Lecture held jointly with the Linnnean Society.
• 12 November: Dr J.C. Harle, 'Early Western Calukya Sculpture'.

• 10 December: G.W. Seager, 'Oriental Carpets and Rugs of Tent, Village and Town'.

  1971

• 14 January: Dr G.B. Milner, 'Homo Ridens: Towards a New Theory of Laughter'.
• 11 February: Dr J.D. Latham, 'Al-Andalus and the Destinies of Barbary'.
• 16 February: Dr J.S. Cummins, 'The Pei-T'ang Library in Peking'. This lecture was held in Sheffield.
• 11 March: Dr W.E. Skillend, 'The Korean Language in Literature'.
• 1 April: Dr R. Fischer, 'Archaeological Surveys in Afghan Seistan 1960-1970'.
• 10 June: John Irwin, 'Mughal Jades and their Relation to Chinese and West Asian Traditions'.
• 14 October: Dr James Dickie, 'Contemporary Trends in Islamic Architecture in Egypt'.
• 11 November: Miss M.N. Bainbridge, 'The Fifty-Second Day: A Turkish Funeral Rite'.
• 29 November: Professor E.H.S. Simmonds, 'The Three Thai capitals, an Historical and Cultural Commentary'. This lecture was held in Canterbury.

• 9 December: A. Hutt, 'Three Minarets in the Kirman Region'.

  1972

• 13 January: Dr J.G. Coates, 'An Introduction to Komi-Zryan Literature'.
• 18 January: Basil W. Robinson, 'Persian Miniature Paintings'. This lecture was held in St. Andrews.
• 10 February: D.B. Doe, 'Southern Arabia before Islam: Archaeological Aspects'.

• 9 March: Dr H.T. Norris, 'Oriental Myths and Motifs West of the Nile.
  *' 8 June: Professor H.L. Shorto, 'Pagan: An Ancient Capital of Burma'. This lecture followed the presentation to Sir Mortimer Wheeler of a special volume of the Journal in his honour.

  1973

• 11 October: Dr M.A.N. Loewe, 'Recent Archaeological Discoveries in China'.
• 8 November: John Leach, 'Psalteries and Dulcimers of Asia'.

• 13 December: Sir Gerard Clauson, 'Apologia'. This lecture was cancelled and replaced by one by E.H.S. Simmonds on 'Love and Nature in Thai Poetry'.

  1974

• 10 January: Dr R.F. Gombrich, 'The Prince who Gave Away Everything; The Vessantara Jákarta in Sinhalese Painting'.
• 14 February: John Ayers, 'The Changing View of Chinese Ceramics'.
• 14 March: Dr May Beattie, 'The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection of Oriental Rugs and Related Pieces'.
• 4 April: Professor W.N. Arafat, 'New Light on the Story of the Banî Quraiza and the Jews of Medina'.
• 13 June: Dr W. O'Flaherty, 'The Indian Jekyll and Hyde: The Myth of Vena, Alias Prthu'.
• 10 October: Dr E. Sollberger, 'A Sumerian "Reformer-King" of the Mid-Third Millennium'. This is a draft.

• 14 November: Dr W.G. Archer, 'Patrons of Painting in the Punjab Hills'.

  1975

• 9 January: Professor C.R. Bawden, 'The Mongol Epic'.
• 13 February: Dr J. Hansman, 'Excavations at Shahr-i Qumis: A Parthian City in Iran'.
• 10 April: Dr Susan A. Skilliter, 'Catherine de Medici's Turkish ladies-in-waiting'.

Administrative documents concerned with Lectures and General Meetings:

• Advertising documents and correspondence concerned with the Royal Asiatic Society's celebration of the bicentenary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal which took place at the General Meeting of 12 January 1984 with Sir Cyril Philips lecturing on 'The Young Wellington in India'. There was also a lecture held at the British Library, given by Garland Cannon, on 14 March 1984, in connection with their exhibition, 'Sir William Jones and the Asiatic Society of Bengal', which ran from 20 January - 29 April 1984. 14 items, dated 16 March 1978 - 3 July 1984.
• 'Fabric of History', a newspaper article from the Evening Standard about the home of Philippa Scott. The article was kept as she pulled out of giving a lecture at short notice. Dated 21 December 1988.
• Correspondence with Walid Arafat concerning his lecture, 2 items, dated 31 December 1988.
• Letter from Helen Ballhatchett concerning her forthcoming lecture, 1 item, dated 4 March 1989.
• Letter from Dr I. Raeside concerning his forthcoming lecture, 1 item, dated 24 October 1989.
• Biographical Notes for Christopher Aslet, 3 items, dated 11 December 1989.

Publicity material for lectures and book launches in the period 2000-2010:

2003-2004

• 13 November 2003: Notice that the lecture, 'The Universe in Miniature: Tombs in Ancient China' by Professor Jessica Rawson, would be held at the Society of Antiquaries.

2004-2005

• 9 June 2005: Tim Mackintosh-Smith, 'The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah'. Various documents: Advertising leaflet, 2 copies; Book of tickets for the event, 1 printed book; administrative correspondence between the Royal Asiatic Society, The British-Yemeni Society, The Embassy of the Republic of Yemen, The Royal Geographical Society, and Clarence House, 11 pieces.

2005-2006
Notice of the April and May lectures for 2006:

• 6 April, the Dr Greville Freeman-Grenville Memorial Lecture by Professor Ulrike Freitag, 'Linking East Africa and the Middle East: Networks of Commerce and Culture;
• 10 May, Dr Ali Ansari, 'Persia in the World Imagination'.

2006-2007
Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 12 December 2006: Chris Howard, 'Screening of "Gohatto" (Taboo) Japan, 1999, Director: Nagisa Oshima'.
• 16 January 2007: Mark Strange: 'Sima Guang on 4th Century Chinese foreign Policy'.
• 24 April 2007: Dr. Sophie Gordon, 'Visions of Asia: Photographs from the Royal Photograph Collection'.

2007-2008
Publicity posters for Lectures:

• 11 October 2007: Dr Kate Teltscher, 'The Scotsman, the Lama and the Gosain: the First British Expedition to Tibet 1774-5'.
• 8 November 2007: Professor Ebba Koch, 'Jahangir as Sir Francis Bacon's ideal of the king as an observer and investigator of nature'.
• 13 March 2008: François de Blois - the Professor Mary Boyce Memorial Lecture, 'Professor Mary Boyce and the Quest for Zoroaster'.
• 10 April 2008: Professor Shail Mayaram, 'James Tod and the trajectory of Indian nationalism: an assessment after two centuries'.
• 12 June 2008: Professor Zeren Tanindi, 'Illustrated and Illuminated Works of Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi'.

Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 25 October 2007: Abhishek Amar, 'Foundations of Buddhism: Investigating Bodhgaya and other Buddhist Monastic sites in Early Historic Gaya'; and Malini Roy, 'Provincial Mughal painting at the court of Nawab Shuja ud-Daula of Awadh (r.1754-75) and Asaf ud-Daula (r.1775-97)'.
• 15 November: Shino Ariswana, Keiko Kitamura, Michael Coxall, 'Sankyoku: Lyrical Music from the Edo period'. With the poster is a programme of the music played.
• 6 December 2007: Wing-Fai Leung introduces the film, 'Comrades, almost a Love Story' directed by Peter Chan, 1996.
• 17 January 2008: Benedetta Lomi, 'Bato Kannon: the Japanese Transformation of an Esoteric Deity'; and Tullio Lobetti, 'Memories of the Flesh: Body and Ascetic Practices in Contemporary Japanese Religious Contexts'.
• 21 February 2008: Bulat Tynybekov and Botagoz Tynybekova in a 'Concert: Kazakh Classical Music'. With the poster is the programme of music, biographies of the performers and an entrance ticket.
• 27 February 2008: Jonathan Black and Brenda Martin, 'Dora Gordine: Sculptor, Artist, Designer', book launch.
• 19 June 2008: the film, 'The Warrior, India', directed by Asaf Kapadia, 2001.

2008-2009
Publicity posters for Lectures:

• 9 October 2008: Dr Ravinder Kaur, 'On Distinctions: Citizens, Refugees and Post-Colonial State in India's Partition'.
• 11 December 2008: Professor Edhem Eldem, 'The Ottoman Culture of Death: A Vision of Modernity and Change'.
• 12 March 2009: Professor Timon Screech, 'Power and Magic in the City Planning of Edo (Tokyo) 1590-1657'.
• 16 April 2009: Professor Huw Bowen, the Professor Cyril Philips Memorial Lecture, 'C.H. Philips and the East India Company'.

Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 20 November 2008: Joint meeting with the Royal Society for Asian Affairs - Peter Cole, 'Exploring a Local Identity in Yemen'; Hannah Warren, 'Female Weavers in a Village in Madya Pradesh, North India: A Photographic Study'; and Dr Alasdair Pinkerton, 'Radio and the Raj: Broadcasting in British India'.
• 10 December 2008: Film, 'The Angry Monk', Director Luc Schaedler, 2005.
• 18 March 2009: Scheherazaad Cooper, 'Odissi - Indian Classical Dance', dance and talk.

Publicity posters for Book Launch:

• 12 November 2008: John O. Hunwick, Alida Jay Boye, and Joseph Hunwick, 'The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: Historic City of Islamic Africa', 2 copies.

2009-2010
Publicity posters for Lectures:

• 8 October 2009: Dr Andrew Peacock, 'End of Empires: the Turkish Conquest of the Middle East, 11th Century AD'.
• 11 February 2010: Professor Owen Wright, 'How French is Frenkçin?'.
• 15 April 2010: Dr Laura J. Newby, 'The Chinese Emperor's New Copper Plates: Art and Politics in the Late 18th Century'.

Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 21 April 2010: Tara Mayer, 'Clothing the Imperial Image: Dress, Identity and Authority in later 18th to early 19th Century North India'; and Amanda Phillips, 'Ottoman Velvets and Imitations: Viral Style in the 17th and 18th Centuries'.

Book Launches:

• 7 July 2010: Invitation to the launch of 'Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi' by Barbara Brend, printed card, 2 copies.

A revised transcript of the Professor Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture, 'Ann K.S. Lambton (1912-2008) and Persian Studies' presented by Professor David Morgan, 15 October 2009. This is an electronic document.

A small amount of correspondence concerning the organisation of lectures. At present this is all closed.

Publicity Posters for 2010-2011. These are all held electronically.

RAS Lecture Series:

• 7 October 2010: Dr Barbara Brend and Mr Jerry Losty, the Norah M. Titley Memorial Lecture, 'Norah Titley: Tributes and Memories'.
• 14 October 2010: Dr Weipin Tsai, 'Breaking the Ice: the Modern Chinese Postal Service in the Winter Season in the Late Qing period'.
• 11 November 2010: Dr Jennifer Howes, 'Colin Mackenzie's Adventures in India (1784-1821)'.
• 6 January 2011: Dr Caroline Finkel, 'Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia'.
• 13 January 2011: Dr Andrew Robinson, 'The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic'.
• 10 February 2011: Dr Benedek Péri, 'He has an Excellent Command of Turki since it is the Language of his Forefathers: Turki in Mughal India'.
• 4 April 2011: Nadhra Khan, 'Wall Paintings in a Special Room of the Sikh Prince Kharak Singh's Haveli'.
• 14 April 2011: Mrs Lesley Pullen, 'Naga Material Culture: Mid 19th to Early 21st Century'.
• 9 June 2011: Mr Robert Skelton, 'Some evidence of Material Culture during the Sultanate Period in India'.
• 17 June 2011: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: The Travels of Evliya Çelebi'.

Student Lecture Series:

• 13 October 2010: Yuthika Sharma, 'Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of Painters, 1770-1857'.
  *24 November 2011: Alyson Wharton, 'The Balyan Family and the Building Operations in the Tanzimat Period; and James Kimball, 'The Soteriological Role and the rsi Kapila according to the Yuktidipika'.
• 8 December 2010: How Wee Ng presented the film, 'Zheng hun qi shi (The Personals)' directed by Chen Kuo-fu, 1998.
• 26 January 2011: Doreen Muller, 'Narrative, Fiction, Documentary - Images of Conflagrations in the City of Edo'; and Tommaso Bobbio, 'Migrants, Slums and the Construction of Citizenship in Gandhi's Ahmedabad (1915-1930)'.
• 23 February 2011: Taka Oshikiri, 'Gathering for Tea in Meiji Japan'; and Martyn Smith, 'Nation and Nutrition in Japan: Food, Physique and Independence'.
• 16 March 2011: Hyunseok Lee, an art performance entitled, 'Exploring Korean Sacred Architectural Aesthetics and their Spiritual Principles using a 3D Animated Documentary Installation'.
• 20 April 2011: Sushma Jansari, 'Megasthenes and Mauryan-Seleucid Relations: Fact or Fiction?'; and Husam al-Mallak, 'Interpreting Nietzsche's Death of God as the Shift of Ethical Foundations from the Religious to the Secular'.
• 18 May 2011: Farouk Yahya, 'Malay Magic and Divination Manuscripts'.
• 15 June 2011: Film, 'Shugendō Now' by Jean-Marc Abela and Mark Patrick McGuire.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2014-2015. These are held electronically.

• 14 October 2014: Dr Sharmina Mawani and Dr Anjum Mukadam, 'Researching Gujarati Identities: Current Perspectives'.
• 19 November 2014: Alexander Monro, 'The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the Wolrd's Greatest Invention', book launch.
• 4 June 2015: Melissa Dale: 'Discovering the Real Lives of China's Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History Revisited'.

Photographs for:

• 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society, 2 images. 20 February 2014: lecture and celebration of the collaboration between the Royal Asiatic Society and Cambridge University Press, 14 images.
• 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan', 33 images.
• 27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch, 1 image.
• 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World', 14 images.

Photographs from:

• 12 September 2016: Hasan Ali Khan, 'Constructing Islam on the Indus', book launch, 2 images.
• 27 September 2016: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Statue of Zhenwu, the Dark Warrior', 10 images.
• 13 October 2016: Dr Chandrika Kaul, 'The BBC and India: Mediating Empire, War and Decolonisation', 8 images.
• 18 October 2016: Marion Molteno, 'Ralph Russell's The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of My Moving Pen', 15 images.
• 24 October 2016: Professor Karel Werner, 'Pure Yoga in its Historical Context and Today', 1 image.
• 26 October 2016: David Waterhouse, 'Brian Hodgson and the RAS - Fresh Perspectives', 3 images.
• 2 November 2016: Dr Mark Watson, 'Nepal: The Early years of Natural History Exploration and the Role of Learned Societies', 8 images.
• 7 November 2016: Francis Gooding and Noah Angell, 'Lux Imperium, Colonial Film at Home: Amateur Movies of the British Empire Taken from the Bristol Records Office Collection', film and talk, 5 images.
• 8 November 2016: John Baily, 'War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale', book launch, 4 images.
• 10 November 2016: Dr Imma Ramos, 'From Akbar to Ambedkar: Retelling of the Story of South Asia at the British Museum', 2 images.
• 21 November 2016: H.J. Noltie, 'Indian Forester, Scottish Laird: the Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie' and 'The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings, 1845-1860', book launches, 7 images.
• 6 December 2016: Professor Jordan Goodman, 'Pictures, Texts and Plants: Joseph Banks and Chine, 1780-1820', 2 images.
• 8 December 2016: Arthur Milner, 'Damascus Tiles: Some Enduring Questions', 5 images.
• 12 December 2016: Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander. 'Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War', book launch, 11 images.
• 14 December 2016: Professor Nile Green, 'The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Archaeology and Nationalism in Pre-Taliban Afghanistan', 1 image.
• 12 January 2017: Dr Edward Anderson, 'Hindu Nationalism Abroad: The Indian Diaspora and Hindutva's Early Transnational Development (1946-77)', 7 images.
• 18 January 2017: The Hon. James Stourton, 'Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors', 7 images.
• 26 January 2017: Elisabeth Leake, 'The Defiant Border', book launch, 2 images.
• 9 February 2017: Stéphane Pradines, 'The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New evidence from archaeological excavations', 2 images.
• 14 February 2017: Dr Arthur Dudney, 'The Literature of Decline under the Late Mughals', 4 images.
• 16 February 2017: Richard P. McClary, 'Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220', book launch, 3 images.
• 23 February 2017: Nancy Charley, 'Little Blue Hut', book launch, 12 images.
• 2 March 2017: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962', book launch, 7 images.
• 2 March 2017: Joint lecture with the Armenian Institute, Patrick Donabedian, 8 images.
• 7 March 2017: Professor Sheila Blair, 'Monumentalizing the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia', 7images.
• 9 March 2017: Dr Roy Fischel, 'Sultans of Many Idioms: Kingship, Ideology and Locality in Bijapur and Golkonda, ca. 1600', 13 images.
• 14 March 2017: Edward Weech and Nancy Charley, 'Exploring the Royal Asiatic Society Archives: In the Footsteps of Thomas Manning and Sir Richard Burton', 8 images.
• 28 March 2017: Prof Robert Ousterhout, 'Palmyra through the lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, forgotten photographer, and monuments in peril', with Cornucopia, 13 images.
• 7 April 2017: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'Architecture and Landscape in Marwar', 7 images.
• 18 April 2017: Dr Martin Bayly, 'Taming the Imperial Imagination: The Genesis of Colonial Knowledge on Afghanistan, 1808-1878', 14 images.
• 27 April 2017: Tara Purnima, 'Tales of the Tribes: Connecting to Cultures through Animation', 7 images.
• 28 April 2017: Dr Bruno de Nicola, 'Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206 - 1335', book launch, 7 images.
• 4 May 2017: Armenian Institute lecture, Dr Claude Mutafian, 'The Magic of Writing: A Survey from Stone Inscriptions, Illuminated Manuscripts to Printing', 5 images.
• 8 May 2017: Professor Nobuaki Kondo, 'Islamic Law and Society in Iran', 1 image.
• 16 May 2017: Dr Simon Layton, 'Piracy and Politics in the Indian Ocean World', 5 images.
• 22 May 2017: Professor Jonathan Bloom, 'Silk Road or Paper Road?', 3 images.
• 8 June 2017: Dr Peter Frankopan, 'Asia and the Formation of Early Modern Europe', 23 images.
• 13 June 2017: Burzine Waghmar, 'The East is a Career': A Centennial Appreciation of SOAS', 10 images.
• 15 June 2017: Armenian Institute Lecture, Dr Yolande Crowe, 'Armenian Merchants and Kϋtahaya Potters in the 18th Century', 1 image.