Letter from Sir Charles Lyall to Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society to request that a representative of the Royal Asiatic Society attend the India Office to discuss the question of accommodation.

Correspondence and notes regarding the relinquishing of the premises at 22 Albemarle Street at the request of Asprey & Co. Ltd.

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 legality of the intention to determine the Lease as the original Lease included that the contract could not be terminated unless Asprey's needed the premises for their own business. Letters primarily between the Royal Asiatic Society, their solicitors T.L. Wilson & Co., and Asprey's solicitors, Richardson, Sadlers and Callard.

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.

Letter from Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to Mrs Tania Foster-Brown, Archivist, Aspreys, to state that in preparation for the Society's 175 year anniversary, he is researching the Society's premises at Albemarle Street and wondered if Aspreys held any records of the building whilst the Society was a tenant. With this letter is a compliment slip from Tania Foster-Brown and a black and white photograph of 22 Albemarle Street, mounted on board, dating to the 1970s.

The Royal Asiatic Society leased 74 Grosvenor Street from 1920 to 1947. These papers include those for the negotiation of taking up the lease, for possibility lease of different premises, for wartime damage insurance contributions, for the expediency of leaving the premises. There is also a photograph of 74 Grosvenor Street of unknown date.

Correspondence and notes concerning negotiations to lease 74 Grosvenor Street

Correspondence and notes regarding the possibility of leasing 74 Grosvenor Street. The correspondence is mainly between the Royal Asiatic Society, their solicitors T.L. Wilson & Co, concerning the negotiations with Westminster Estate's solicitors, Messrs Boodle & Co.

Correspondence and notes regarding the terms under which the Royal Asiatic Society would be able to sub-let part of 74 Grosvenor Street. The correspondence is mostly between the Royal Asiatic Society and their Solicitors, T.L. Wilson and Co.