Fondo RAS GOV8 - Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Committee of Correspondence

Área de identidad

Código de referencia

GB 891 RAS GOV8

Título

Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Committee of Correspondence

Fecha(s)

  • 1823 - 1846 (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

Fondo

Volumen y soporte

2 bound volumes handwritten

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

(1823-)

Historia administrativa

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

Institución archivística

Historia archivística

These were created during the undertaking of the Society's business.

Origen del ingreso o transferencia

As part of the institutional records, they have always been part of the Society's possessions.

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

The first minutes for the Committee of Correspondence are for 19 May 1831. However before this time items communicated to the Society were being recorded. Thus these two volumes are both connected with the administration of correspondence. These are:

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Área de condiciones de acceso y uso

Condiciones de acceso

Open. Please contact the archivist. Details can be found here : https://royalasiaticarchives.org/. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment isread more

Condiciones

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Idioma del material

  • inglés

Área de materiales relacionados

Unidades de descripción relacionadas

These form part of the Governance material. As several of the items of correspondence were also read at the General Meetings these records also overlap with the institutional records concerned with Lectures and Events. The Correspondence volumes ( RASread more

Puntos de acceso

Puntos de acceso por materia

Área de control de la descripción

Identificador de la descripción

gb891-rasgov8

Nota del archivista

The material was catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2023.