Cocktail parties and dinners continued through the 1970s and into the early 1980s. The material associated from these events, and from a concert held at the Southbank centre, is:

1974
9 May: Cocktail party held at the Society's premises.

• Application form for tickets for the Cocktail party, printed paper, 1 piece.

1975
4 April: 'Oriental Musical Instruments' with John Leach and the London Oriental Ensemble, held at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London.

• Letter to Fellows informing of the event with application form for tickets, 1 piece, typed, dated February 1975.
• 'Music on the Southbank, April 1975' advertising brochure with event listings, printed pamphlet.
• Advertising poster with programme on reverse, printed paper. Programme, printed paper, 2 copies.
• Administrative correspondence including the Agreement contract for the event, 25 pieces, handwritten, typed and printed, dated 19 September 1974 - 2 September 1975.
• Brochures and programmes for previous event in which John Leach had performed, printed paper, 4 items, dated April - November 1973.

8 May: Cocktail Party held at the Society's premises.

• Application form for tickets for the Cocktail party, printed paper, 1 piece.

1976
27 October: The Society's Triennial Dinner, held at the Oriental Club, Stratford Place, London.

• Notification of the event with application form for tickets, printed paper, 1 piece.
• Menu card with toasts listed, printed card, 1 piece.
• Newspaper cuttings, glued onto a sheet of paper, from the Times and the Daily Telegraph reporting on the event, 1 piece, dated 28 October 1976.
• List of dinners held between 1962 and 1976, with dates and locations, handwritten, 1 piece.

1979
23 October: The Society's Triennial Dinner, held at the Oriental Club, Stratford Place, London.

• Menu card with toasts listed, printed card, 1 piece.
• Newspaper cutting, glued onto a sheet of paper, from the Daily Telegraph reporting on the event, 1 piece, dated 24 October 1979.

1982
27 October: The Society's Triennial Dinner, held at the Oriental Club, Stratford Place, London.

• Menu card with toasts listed, printed card, 1 piece.
• Newspaper cuttings from the Times and the Daily Telegraph reporting on the event, 2 pieces, dated 28 October 1982.

Material from events in the 1991-2000:

1998-1999
Visit of the Chinese Ambassador to the Society's premises on 10 July 1998 to see some of the Society's treasures. This was followed by the Ambassador giving a lecture at the Society on 11 November 1999.

• Correspondence concerning the Chinese Ambassador's visit, 6 pieces, dated 2 June -13 July 1998.
• 'Chinese Ambassador's Visit to the Royal Asiatic Society', report on the event, 1 piece.
• Photographs - 23 colour images taken at the visit.
• Correspondence concerning the Ambassador's lecture, 9 pieces, dated 4 November 1998 - 15 November 1999.

2000
2 March: The Friends of Hadhramaut held an evening of traditional Uzbek and Sufi Music and Song, at the premises of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Notice of the event, with application form and information about the musicians, typed, 2 pieces.

Material from events between 2001 and 2010:

2001
26 November: The Society for South Asian Studies Annual General Meeting, held at the premises of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Invitation poster for the event, 1 piece. Agenda for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Administrative correspondence, 4 pieces, dated 12 July - 13 December 2001.

2004
22 April: Potential visit by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Association.

• Letter from Mayella Figgis, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Association, to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society, to confirm that after their Charman, Roger Westbrook's visit to the Society, the Association would be keen to arrange a group visit. This has been annotated with 'Nov 2004' suggesting the visit took place in November of that year. Typed, 1 piece, dated 22 April 2004.

17 November: Visit of the Nichi-ei Otomodachi Kai Arts & Antiques Group to the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Letter from Judith A. Colegate to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society to confirm the group's visit and to finalise the arrangements. Typed,1 piece, dated 3 August 2004.

2005
22 February: Visit of the Kensington and Chelsea National Trust Association.

• Letter confirming the date of the Trust's visit to the Society, 1 piece, dated 2 November 2004.

2006
27 July and 5 October: Receptions to celebrate the opening of the new premises of the Society at 14 Stephenson Way.

• Invitation card with reply form, printed card, 2 pieces.
• Letter from the President, Anthony Stockwell, to the Fellows informing of the event, 1 piece, dated 12 July 2006.
• List of attendees to the reception on 27 July, 6 pieces.

Undated: Celebration of the 80th birthday of Professor A.D.H. Bivar hosted by The Circle of Inner Asian Art and Brepols Academic Publishers, held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Invitation card, printed card, 1 piece.

2007
2 July: Concert of Kazakh Music held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Programme for the event, 1 piece.

13 August: School Visit to the Royal Asiatic Society.

• 44 digital images.

2008
21 February: Concert of Kazakh Classical Music held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Admission ticket, 1 piece.

15 May: Concert of Chinese, Japanese and Mongolian Folk Melodies held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Admission ticket, 1 piece.
• Programme for the event, 1 piece.

2009
30 April: Celebration of the completion of the conservation of two Persian manuscripts made possible by a grant from the Don Baker Memorial Fund.

• Invitation card, 1 piece.

12 June: 'A Composer on the Throne: the Music of Sultan Selim III and his Court', a talk and concert held at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Concert programme, pamphlet.

2010
18 September: The Royal Asiatic Society opened as part of Open House.

• Letter from Jeni Hoskin, Project Manager, Open City, to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society, to confirm the Society's participation in Open House London 2010. With the letter are the Final Fact Check List, Publicity Material and Insurance information. Typed and printed, 4 pieces, dated 3 June 2010.
• Handout sheets for artworks hanging in the Society's premises, 4 electronic documents.
• 'Open House London, Archifacts' sheet, 1 piece.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society Open House Statistics – Saturday 18th September 2010', electronic document.
• Report on Open house of 18th of September 2010, 2 versions, 3 pieces.

Material for events held between 2011-2021:

2011
6 June: Visit by a Turkish Group.

• Three digital photographs.

10 July: Lunch with Cambridge University Press.

• Four digital photographs.

August: Visit by Oriental Club.

• Letter of thanks for the visit, 1 piece, dated 1 September 2011.

17 September: Open House, held at the Royal Asiatic Society, as part of Open City.

• Correspondence regarding participation, 2 pieces, dated 9 June 2011.
• 24 digital photographs.

2012
16-18 May: 'O-fuda - The Material Culture of Japanese Religious Practice', workshop and exhibition co-hosted by SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions and the RAS

• Printed programme of the workshop.

2013
14 March: Dinner held in celebration of the 190th anniversary of the Society, at Sardo, Grafton Street, London.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.

29 May: Visit by the Royal Asiatic Society to Sezincote House.

• Publicity poster, 2 electronic documents. Booking form, electronic document.

6 June: Concert 'POCHAGI - A Tapestry of Korean Sounds'

• Leaflet, with details of the performers.

2014
20-21 September: Open House.

• Open House London, Architectural information for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1 piece.
• Open House London Map for Marylebone to Bloomsbury, 1 piece.

14 November: Display of Byzantine Bookbinding,

• 77 digital photographs.

2015
17 July: Visit of the Royal Asiatic Society to the South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection Trust, Norwich.

• Seven digital photographs.

25 September: Oud Concert by Joseph Tawadros.

• Publicity poster, 2 pieces.
• Five digital photographs.

20 November: 'Tea and Testimony', a creative writing workshop held as part of Explore your Archive Week, with tutor Emily Filtness.

• Publicity posters, 4 pieces.
• Report on the event by Nancy Charley, Archivist.

9 December: Sale of Kope Scarves.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Four digital photographs.

2016
14 June: Oud Concert by Joseph Tawadros.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Four digital photographs.

27 October: Oud concert by Baba Yetkin.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Three digital photographs.

16 November: Diwali celebration at which Dr Menaka Bora performed Indian classical dance.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.

23 November: 'Writ in Water,' a creative writing workshop held as part of Explore your Archive Week, with tutor Emily Filtness.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Creative writing prompts, electronic document.
• Report on the event by Nancy Charley, Archivist, electronic document.

2017
16 June: Celebration of 'Conversation Piece' a commissioned painting of five Presidents and the Director of the Society.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Nine digital photographs.

16 October: Visit by Julie Chun, Royal Asiatic Society, China.

• Four digital photographs.

2018
9 October: A concert by Chalpasah, the only Japanese Afghan band.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Three digital photographs.

2019
3 October: Evening to celebrate the conservation of the braid of a Burmese manuscript.

• Ten digital photographs.

2021
28 September: Visit to the Royal Asiatic Society by the Travellers Club with dinner.

• Menu card, 1 piece.
• Fifteen digital photographs.

Since its inception the Royal Asiatic Society has encouraged the dissemination of Asian studies through the delivering of papers and lectures. These, particularly throughout the early history, were part of the General Meetings and recorded in the Minutes of the General Meetings (RAS LEC1). The material in this catalogue concerns the administration and publicity of papers, lectures and book launches given for the Society.

Correspondence concerning, and drafts of papers read at, General Meetings. Lists of lecture dates for 1865 and 1868.

Drafts of papers delivered at General Meetings of the Society. These are:

• 'Translation of a Chinese Inscription found on a Rock at Kulangsu (Gulangyu)' by George Tradescant Lay, read at the General Meeting, 15 November 1845, 14 pages + paper wrapper.
• Paper on the cultivation of cotton and sugar by William McClelland, read 7 November 1846, with accompanying letter from W. Corgill, dated 18 May 1846, 17 pages.
• Notes on the progress of the native printing press in India, with reference to a list of periodicals and other works printed at the presses of Delhi and Bareilly with the list and translation by John Dowson. Read By H.H. Wilson, 2 December 1848, 23 pages.
• Notes on the Ruins at Gwalior by Lieutenant Thomas Briggs, read 20 November 1852 when Briggs showed a volume of drawings of the architecture of the temples visited by him at Gwalior and Badami, 8 pages + paper wrapper.
• Paper relating to the use by the Chinese government of the Chinese word for barbarian, read by Edwin Norris from documents communicated by the Foreign Office, 4 December 1852, 13 pieces + paper wrapper.
• Notes on the low caste Mangs of Kolhapoor (Kolhapur); an extract of a report by Lieutenant C. Barr, dated 1 January 1852. This was communicated by Colonel Sykes and read 4th June 1853, printed 10 pages.
• Extracts from letters received from Colonel Henry Rawlinson concerning the kings cited in an inscription. Two pieces, undated but probably dating to 1852-4 when the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society read several such extracts at the General Meetings.
• Description of the Drawings of Buddha and a Pagoda, presented to the Society by the First King of Siam (Thailand) on 23 July 1857. The original description is dated 26 May 1854. The paper was read by the President, H.H. Wilson, at the meeting of 2 January 1858, 8 pages.
• Paper entitled 'A Sketch of Buddhist mythology as represented in Chinese sheet-tract' read by Joseph Edkins, 22 January 1859, 7 pages.
• Papers relating to the inscriptions on two swords given to the Queen by the widow of Major Hodson, but displayed at the Royal Asiatic Society on 6 April 1861, 5 pieces.

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.

Printed cards detailing the dates of the meeting for 1865 and 1868-9.

Correspondence and printed material concerning lectures, and a typescript of one lecture. The material is:

• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Sir Charles Eliot, 'The History and Monuments of Cambodia', 13 February 1912.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Professor Albert von le Coq, 'Journey and Results of the 4th Turfan Expedition', 18 October 1927.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Sir E. Denison Ross, 'The Contribution of Hungary to Central Asian Studies with special reference to Csoma de Koros', 12 June 1928.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Sir Aurel Stein, 'A Journey of Archaeological Expedition in South-Western Iran (1933-6)', 11 November 1937.
• Typescript of the lecture given by Professor Kochi Doi on Japanese Myth. The lecture was given on 9 December 1937. The typescript is annotated with a note from Doi to Colonel Hoysted, dated 28 January 1938. With the typescript is an admittance ticket for the lecture and a letter from Harold Powlett to Colonel Hoysted to return the typescript, dated 5 February 1938.
• An album containing correspondence and admittance tickets for lectures held between November 1932 and June 1940.
• Admittance tickets for lectures by Sir Richard O. Winstedt, 'Malaya and the Malays', 13 February 1941; and Dr. H. Buchtal, 'Indian Tales in Islamic Art', 4 March 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Rev. E.R. Hughes, 'The Chinese Collection in the Bodleian Library', 10 April 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Lord Samuel, 'The Hebrew University of Jerusalem', following the Anniversary meeting of 6 May 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Mr Hsiao Ch'ien, 'Some Remarks on Contemporary Chinese Literature', 12 June 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Mr K. de B. Codrington, 'Classical Contacts with Indian Art', 5 March 1943.
• Letter from H.W. Bailey to Sir Richard Winstedt to express his honour at being asked to lecture at the Society, handwritten, dated 23 December 1943.
• Letter from Menier Collin to Sir Richard Winstedt concerning his forthcoming lecture on 'The Ramayana as a work of Art', handwritten, dated 8 April 1944.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Bishop Stephen Neill, 'The beginnings of Tamil Literature' which would follow the presentation of the Triennial Gold Medal to Sir Richard Winstedt, 9 October 1947.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Professor Dr. Nihar Ranjan Ray, 'Fundamental Approaches to Indian Art', 24 January 1952, a joint lecture with the Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society.
• Newspaper cutting of a short article entitled 'Royal Asiatic Society Lectures' in The Times, regarding the Society's new series of popular lectures, including those by Mr A. M. Blackman, Sir Denison Ross, Dr H. R. Hall and Mr Sidney Smith, 15 January 1926.
• Newspaper cutting of an article under the heading 'Evening Instruction' regarding the Society's new series of popular lectures, from The Englishman (Calcutta), 5 January 1926.