Correspondence concerned with seeking permission for articles originally published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society to be reprinted in other publications. There are seven examples of requests from individuals and institutions. On the converse, requests are made from Journal authors to other institutions for permission to use images within their article. There are three examples of these.

Correspondence regarding the possibility of holding an Arab day. These are:

• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to G.A. Calver to ask him to approach the Anglo-Arab Society, dated 9 May 1972.
• Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to ask whether they would be interested in holding a joint Arab Day, dated 26 May 1972.
• Letter from Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to G.A. Calver to inform that he will put the idea to his Council but also to raise some negatives regarding the idea, dated 23 June 1972.
• Letter from G.A. Calver to Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to answer his objections and to raise his own about the suggestion of having someone from the Arab League Office as a speaker, dated 12 July 1972.
• Letter from G.A. Calver to Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to ask if any progress had been made concerning the Arab day, dated 29 September 1972.
• Letter from David Llewellyn, Treasurer, Anglo-Arab Association, to G.A. Calver to inform that the Association would like to collaborate, dated 13 October 1972.
• Letter from Sir Charles Duke, Chairman, Anglo Arab Association, to G.A. Calver to inform that the Association would like to collaborate and he has put David Llewellyn in charge of arranging matters, dated 17 October 1972.
• Letter from B.W. Robinson, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to David Llewellyn, Treasurer, Anglo-Arab Association, to provide some details of the purpose of the National Days, dated 7 December 1972.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to David Llewellyn, Treasurer, Anglo-Arab Association, to ask if the Association had made a decision regarding the Arab day, dated 19 January 1973.

Appeal brochures for the Royal Asiatic Society sesquicentenary and correspondence concerning them.

"The Asiatic Society Annual Report 1981", printed pamphlet of the report of the Society's activities for the year 1981.

"Introduction of the Annual Report 1981, Dr. Amalendu De, General Secretary, Asiatic Society", printed pamphlet containing the introduction.

'An Account of Jerusalem from the Persian text of Nasir ibn Khusru's Safarnamah', translated for the late Sir H. M. Elliot, by the late Major A.R. Fuller, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1873), pp. 142-164.

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.

There are two types of agreements:

• Memorandum of agreement for 20th December 1989, for Cambridge University Press to publish the Journal from 1 January 1991. Also further Memoranda of agreement for 22 December 2005, with Addenda to this agreement made on 28 February 2008, 27 May 2008 and 19 February 2009, and for 14 April 2010 with an Addendum for 3 August 2011. (The current agreement is held within the office records.)
• JSTOR Publication License Agreement between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Asiatic Society with a contract date of 31 August 2005, and a further agreement dated 18 January 2007 (2 copies).

Correspondence, reports and printed material regarding the agreement of cooperation made between the Société Asiatique and the Royal Asiatic Society. These are:

• Letter from Émile Senart to Lord Reay, President, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the possibility of the two societies cooperating. Handwritten in French, dated 19 December 1916.There is also a typed copy of this letter.
• Notes on the meeting of the Société Asiatique and a commission that will be formed. Handwritten on the reverse of an agenda for the Council meeting of 13 February 1917.
• Letter from the Council, Royal Asiatic Society, to Lord Reay to state that the Council at its meeting passed the resolution that they had great sympathy with the desire of Émile Senart and suggest the formation of a small committee to take this further. Handwritten, undated.
• Letter from Émile Senart to thank for the invitation to work towards an agreement between the Societies. Handwritten in French, dated 2 March 1917.
• Letter from Émile Senart to write concerning the forming of a committee to work with the Royal Asiatic Society. Handwritten in French, dated 9 March 1917.
• Memorandum from the Société Asiatique concerning the appointment of a Committee to work towards more intimate relations with the Royal Asiatic Society. Typed, dated 31 March 1917
  *. Letter from Charels Lyall, Chairman of the Committee, Royal Asiatic Society to report on its deliberations of the proposal for cooperation in the Memorandum from the Société Asiatique. Typed, dated 8 May 1917.
• Letter from Émile Senart to Charles Lyall to thank for the the comments on the proposal. Handwritten in French, dated 26 May 1917.
• Notification that the Committee of Royal Asiatic Society had met to consider the memorandum from the Société Asiatique. The memorandum is with this note as is a copy of a further letter from Émile Senart enclosing a protocol of terms of agreement. The letter is dated 21 June 1917.
• Statement concerning the possibilities of cooperation. Typed in French, undated.
• Letter from Émile Senart to the President, Royal Asiatic Society, to write concerning the cooperation between the Societies and to submit a first draft of a scheme formulating the precise terms of cooperation. Handwritten in French, dated 21 June 1917. With this letter is a handwritten translation in English.
• Report of the Committee, Royal Asiatic Society regarding the protocol sent by the Société Asiatique. Handwritten, undated.
• "Terms of an agreement between the Société Asiatique of Paris & the Royal Asiatic Society". Handwritten list of points of agreement. Undated.
• Letter from F.W. Thomas, Secretary of the Committee, Royal Asiatic Society, to Émile Senart to state that the Committee assented to the protocol sent and will recommend its acceptance by the Royal Asiatic Society. Handwritten, dated 19 July 1917.
• "Notes of the Quarter (October - December 1917)" from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society which includes "An Agreement Concluded between the Royal Asiatic Society and the Société Asiatique of Paris." Printed material.
• "Convention Entré la Société Asiatique et la Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland". Offprint of agreement, written in French.

Reprint from the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1918, of the Agreement between the Société Asiatique and the American Oriental Society with the "Circular Letter to the Members of the American Oriental Society concerning a French Plan for securing closer relations of mutual helpfulness between the Société Asiatique and our own" by Charles R. Lanman, dated 14 March 1918. Two copies of the reprint and a further copy of the circular letter.

Also a letter from Émile Senart to F.W. Thomas, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to report on the Agreement between the Société Asiatique and the American Oriental Society. Typed, 21 June 1918.

Memorandum of Agreement between The Royal Asiatic Society and Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co. for the publishing of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. The agreement details payments from W.H. Allen to the Society and advertising rights. The agreement is signed by T.W. Rhys Davids in his role as Secretary for the Society.