Letter from India Office to Lord Reay to acknowledge receipt of his letter.

Letter from India Office to Lord Reay, replying on behalf of Lord Morley, concerning the possibility of the Royal Asiatic Society joining with other associations to gain better accommodation for the Society. With this letter is a further letter setting out the terms offered to the other Societies, and the India Office suggests that is these are acceptable to the Royal Asiatic Society, they are requested to depute some person to confer with representatives of the other Associations. This further letter is present.

Letter from Richardson, Sadlers & Callard, on behalf of Asprey and Company Limited, to send notice of Asprey's intention to determine their lease on 20 September. Also initial correspondence from Royal Asiatic Society to understand the terms being offered for possible continuation at the premises at increased rent.

Correspondence and notes regarding the negotiations for leaving the premises. Letters between the Royal Asiatic Society, their solicitors, and those of Asprey and Co. Ltd. regarding the deal to be struck for the Society to vacate the premises. Also notes of decisions made by the Society.

The Royal Asiatic Society leased the premises at 56 Queen Anne Street from 1947 to 1988. The papers include official lease documents, sub-letting agreements, correspondence, plans and photographs.

Lease Agreements between the Howard de Walden Estates Limited and the Royal Asiatic Society for the property 56 Queen Anne Street.

Lease of a messuage and premises No.56 Queen Anne Street between General Real Estates Investment and Trust Limited and the Royal Asiatic Society for the 63 years commencing on 6th July 1946 and expiring in 2009. The lease was for a Fine of £8000 with a rent of £350. This is a copy of the original that was certified as a true copy of the original on 2 September 1948.

Licence relating to the variation of user of part of the premises situate and known as Number 56 Queen Anne Street. Licence given by Howard de Walden Estates to the Royal Asiatic Society to change the rate of the Licence fee for the Royal Anthropological Institute to use the premises.

Correspondence concerned with the repair of the glass roof dome. Application was made for funds from the Historic Buildings Council (refused), the Greater London Council and The Pilgrim Trust (accepted). The correspondence is with these organisations, and with the Building Surveyors, Morton-Smith & Co. There are also two large and sixteen small black and white photographs of the dome and 17 photographic negatives.

The Royal Asiatic Society considered over its tenancy both ways of developing the property, of increasing its income through extra rental, of extending the lease and of trying to buy the property from Howard de Walden Estates. For this purpose, at various times a Development Committee was established. These papers contain Minutes from Development Committee Meetings and allied correspondence.