Letter from Hamilton Gibb, Acting Assistant Secretary, International Union of Orientalists, to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that it has been proposed to hold a General Assembly of the Union at Paris in September 1953. He provides an agenda and asks that a representative be delegated.

Letter from Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Hamilton Gibb to ask whether he would be the representative for the Royal Asiatic Society at the General Assembly of the International Union of Orientalists.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that it would be improper for him to be the Royal Asiatic Society's representative as he is one of the representatives of the International Congress. However, in the nebulous situation concerning the International Union, he would agree to undertake the role.

Two copies of the "International Union of Orientalists, Draft Statutes" and a copy of "Union Internationale des Orientalistes Statuts".

Minutes of the General Assembly of the International Union of Orientalists held in Munich in 1957 and a subsequent circular.

Correspondence and reports concerned with the International Union of Orientalists' General Assembly at New Delhi in 1964.

Letter from Albrecht Goetze to George Morgenstierne in which he reports from a meeting of the American Oriental Society and the Association of Asiatic Studies on the problems connected with the Congress to be held at New Delhi.

Letter from Professor W. Norman Brown, University of Pennsylvania, to Sir Richard Winstedt, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to discuss points concerning the Oriental Congress and to send a report of the Joint Meeting of the American Oriental Society and Association for Asian Studies Committees concerning the International Congress of Orientalists, which took place in New York on 23 November 1962. The report is with the letter. On the reverse of the letter is a handwritten copy of the reply sent by Winstedt on 26 February 1963.

Letter from Sir Harold Bailey to President, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose a letter from Professor Morgenstierne, President of the International Union of Orientalists. The copy of the letter from Morgenstierne is with this letter concerning whether Denis Sinor is retaining his British citizenship or if a new representative will have to be found and to provide details of the activities of the Union.

Letter from Professor Georg Morgenstierne, President of International Union of Orientalists, to President, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the next General Assembly of the Union would be held at the International Congress of Orientalists in New Delhi on 6 January 1964, and to ask for the Society to nominate a representative. A handwritten copy of the reply has been added to this letter stating that the Society has nominated Dr Allchin, who has succeeded Dr Sinor.