Plan and Arrangement of Tables for the Centenary Luncheon at Claridge's Hotel, 17 July 1923.

The Minutes of the "Syro-Egyptian Society of London. Instituted 1844". These handwritten minutes cover the time period from the first meeting of the Society on 3 December 1844 to their 146th meeting on 12 March 1861. The Society met fortnightly until June 1846, then monthly, with extended summer breaks. The minutes cover the decisions made at the meetings and the Papers read. Yearly Anniversary Meetings were held in April. The minutes are written in a hardbound volume purchased from H. Penny, Stationer & Manufacturer of Improved Patent Account Books.

The Royal Asiatic Society from 23-27 July 1973 entitled "The Undeciphered Languages". The material in this series covers the administration, correspondence and advertising of this Symposium.

Subscriptions Volumes - bound volumes containing the names of subscribers with dates of payment and when they were issued with the Journal. Includes individuals, exchanges and book sellers. Nine volumes all handwritten, dated 1925-1927, 1928-1930, 1940-1942, 1943-1945, 1952-1954, 1955-1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963, 1965-1966.

This series contains lists of subscribers, both individuals and organisations, and some associated administrative material.

Letter from Royal Asiatic Society Director, A.D.H. Bivar, to libraries to suggest recipients subscribe to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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).

Correspondence regarding the lease of the third floor flat. These include:

• Correspondence with Mr Seal regarding an extension to his lease, 1956.
• Correspondence regarding the transfer of the lease from Dr Seal to Elizabeth Holloway (later Mrs Erleigh), 1961.
• Correspondence regarding the Erleigh's tenancy. This includes a newspaper cutting about the unexpected birth of Mrs Erleigh's child, 1962 -1965.
• Correspondence regarding temporary/unofficial residents, Mr Leon and Mrs Hardy, 1968.
• Correspondence regarding the relinquishment of the lease by Mrs Erleigh and its reassignment to Mr N. A. Lane and Mr M.E. Feirtag, 1969.
• Correspondence regarding the relinquishment of the lease by Mr N. A. Lane and Mr M.E. Feirtag and reassignment to Howard Anthony Jacobs and Michael Horowitz, 1971.
• Correspondence regarding the tenancy of Mr and Mrs Jacobs, 1976 - 1985.
• Director's Note regarding possible tenancy of Mr and Mrs Davidson, 1986.

The majority of the correspondence is between the Royal Asiatic Society, their tenants, and their respective solicitors.

This material contains underleases for rooms sublet on the Ground Floor of 56 Queen Anne Street, and selected correspondence. There is also a print block for the "Exhibition of Embroidery Then & Now" 1959 for the Embroiderers' Guild Expansion Fund. This must have been left at the premises.

The printing of the Journal went to Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd. in the late 1800s. This series contains some later correspondence between the printers and the Society.