Invoices from Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Oriental, General and Artistic Printers, to the Royal Asiatic Society to show costs for Centenary Supplement charged on Journal basis totalling £387.6.3 and cost of Centenary Volume Composition printing £5.10. Also accompanying list of Authors' Corrections Analysis.

Report on Bill for Centenary Supplement which details the estimates and agreements between Austins Printers and the Royal Asiatic Society, concluding that Austins had not overcharged for the work done. Signed W. Percival Yetts.

Letter from William MacBean George Colebrooke to Alexander Johnston in which he conveys Henry Thomas Colebrooke's regrets that he will unable to attend at the Johnstons' house that evening as he has a heavy cold picked up at the Royal Society meeting. William Colebrooke writes concerning Dr Noehden and about the preparation of the Prospectus which he will discuss further with Johnston that evening. Handwritten, 3 sides, plus further side with address. Undated.

Letter from William MacBean George Colebrooke to Alexander Johnston to send him a notice of the proceedings in Java on the Slave Subject. He has not had time to transcribe it but asks that Johnston alters it according to his judgement. Colebrooke asks again that his name not be connected in any way at this time with the African Institution due to the nature of the journey on which he is about to embark. He expresses his views on the abolition of slavery. In a postscript he writes that "Mr Colebrooke thinks of circulating a notice for a meeting of the Asiatic Society, either at his house or at the Thatched House on Saturday next". Colebrooke doubts that he will be able to attend, as though wind-bound at the time of writing, he expects to have set sail before the meeting. Handwritten, 4 sides.

The Royal Asiatic Society leased the premises at 5 New Burlington Street from 1848 to 1869. There is no original archival material for this period. These papers consist of copies of a perspective drawing executed from Regent Street. There are 2 copies of this view with an explanatory note. And a further copy of numbers 78-86.

The Royal Asiatic Society leased the premises at 22 Albemarle Street from 1869-1919. These papers contain official lease documents, correspondence regarding the property and possible alternatives, and a more recent photograph.

Official documents concerned with the lease, by the Royal Asiatic Society, of the upper part of 22 Albemarle Street from Asprey & Co. Ltd.

Letter from Charles Asprey to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids in which he writes, though desirous to meet the wishes of the Council, he cannot accept a less rental than £350 per annum.

Letter from Charles Asprey to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids in which he writes that he will call at Albemarle Street on Friday afternoon to discuss some points with him.

Letter from F.F. Arbuthnot to Professor T.W. Rhys Davids in which he advises that the Society accepts Asprey's conditions and to ask for Asprey to send a draft lease.