Organisational Lists and Letters for Sesquicentenary Reception. These are:

• "Reception - Monday 19th February 1973" - lists of guests at the Reception and duties of members of the Society in overseeing the event, 6 pieces, typed with annotations.
• "Press Arrangements - Miss Anne Hawkins" - arrangements and queries concerning the needs of the press, 1 piece, typed with handwritten annotations.
• "Programme & Time-table for the visit of Her Majesty the Queen & His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Royal Asiatic Society on Monday 19th February 1973", typed list.
• "The City of Westminster Civic Protocol" listing the protocol for functions at which the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress are attending. With this list is another sheet containing biographical details for the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. Two pieces, printed.
• Official letter from A.D.H. Bivar, Director, concerning the Ballot for attendance at the Reception, typed with printed letterhead. With this are 2 copies of the ballot form, typed.
• Official letter from A.D.H. Bivar, Director, concerning arrangements for the Reception.
• "Notes for the Guidance of Fellows on the Occasion of the Visit of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Society on February 19th 1973 - typed, 1 piece.

Two very similar versions of B&W photographs of participants of the symposium, 8 copies. Includes the original negatives.

Minutes for the Finance and Investments Committee from 14 January 2012 to present, covering the following meetings:

2021

• 14 January 2021
• 25 Match 2021
• 24 May 2021
• 23 September 2021
• 11 November 2021

2022

• 13 January 2022
• 10 March 2022
• 5 May 2022
• 4 October 2022
• 10 November 2022

2023

• 12 January 2023
• 4 May 2023
• 19 October 2023

2024

• 11 January 2024
• 14 March 2024
• 2 May 2024
• 26 September 2024
• 4 December 2024

2025

• 9 January 2025
• 20 March 2025
• 1 May 2025
• 25 September 2025
• 27 November 2025 (notes available only)

General publicity material relating to venue hire, including:

• Colour advertising card for the Society’s premise at 14 Stephenson Way, featuring a close-up image of the Society’s artwork Todi ragini (Head Cat. No. 067.011) and images of the Lecture Theatre and Council Room. Printed card, 1 piece, undated.

The material available for the Anniversary General Meetings from 2026 to present is:

2026

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 14 May 2026, with Minutes of the last meeting and Election of Council Members, 3 pieces
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 31 December 2025, 18 pieces
• Poster for the AGM Lecture by Simon Kaner. The lecture was entitled 'Towards 150 years of Japanese archaeology and its broader Asian connections', 1 digital image
• Photographs of the AGM, 4 digital images

Correspondence with the solicitors concerning reprinting agreements, including:

• Letters between the RAS and T. L. Wilson & Co. regarding a draft agreement with Johnson Reprinting Co. [not with the letters]. Three letters, dated 21 December 1964-14 January 1965.

• Letter from T. L. Wilson & Co. regarding a draft agreement with Messrs. Kraus Reprint Limited [not with the letter], dated 31 October 1966.

• Letters from RAS Secretary to Messrs. Wilson Freeman concerning the termination of the agreements with Luzac & Company Ltd. and Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York. There is a photocopy of an agreement signed between the Society and Johnson Reprint Corporation for reprinting early issues and volumes of the Journal, dated November 1959. Two letters, dated 27 February-31 October 1975, and three photocopies.

Correspondence between the Society and Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, regarding granting the Corporation the exclusive rights to reprint unavailable early issues and volumes of JRAS. The agreement was later extended to cover publications of the Oriental Translation Fund series, as well as the warehousing and selling of JRAS and publications of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, and continued until the winding up of the Corporation in 1993 when all reprint rights were relinquished. Mixed with the correspondence are agreements signed in 1959, 1964 and 1966.

Newspaper cuttings:

• "The indefatigable in pursuit of the indecipherable" from The Times, 22 July 1973.
• "Receptions: Foreign and Commonwealth Office" from Daily Telegraph, 26 July 1973.
• "Receptions: Foreign and Commonwealth Office" from The Times, 1973.
• "Song of the sirens not beyond all conjecture" from The Times, 28 July 1973.

Article from Oriental Art, Summer 1973, advertising the Exhibitions for the Royal Asiatic Society's 150th Anniversary.