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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.

Draft Licence relating to the premises known as Number 56 Queen Anne Street between Howard de Walden Estates Limited and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the consent for the Royal Asiatic Society to sublet two rooms on the ground floor to Mr J. Harris.

Licence relating to variation of user of part of premises situate and known as Number 56 Queen Anne Street. Licence given by Howard de Walden Estates Limited to the Royal Asiatic Society to grant the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland permission to share the premises with the Royal Asiatic Society.

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.

This material contains underleases for rooms sublet on the Ground Floor of 56 Queen Anne Street, and selected correspondence. There is also a print block for the "Exhibition of Embroidery Then & Now" 1959 for the Embroiderers' Guild Expansion Fund. This must have been left at the premises.

Letter from Perowne, Gedge and Company, Solicitors, to Royal Asiatic Society, to inform the Society that the Embroiderers' Guild had just entered into a contract for purchase of their own property and therefore would be vacating the rooms at 56 Queen Anne Street. Dated 7 April, 1950.
Also a print block for an advertisement for the for "Exhibition of Embroidery Then & Now" 1959 for the Embroiderers' Guild Expansion Fund to be held at the Old Knoll, Eliot Hill, Lewisham. The exhibition was being held by the kind invitation of Dr and Mrs J.E. Stokes, presumably the then inhabitants, and to be opened by Wingfield-Digby, Keeper of Textile Department at the V&A.

Correspondence concerning the letting of the rooms formerly occupied by the Embroiderers' Guild to Mr J. Harris, an architect. These letters are primarily between the Royal Asiatic Society, Howard de Walden Estates and T.L. Wilson & Company, Solicitors, and concern the change of usage for the rooms to a commercial nature and the drawing up of the underlease. Dated from 2 May 1960 - 7 September 1960.

it is presumed that Mr Ralph Tubbs took over the tenancy of these rooms from Mr J. Harris. It is unknown when he began his tenancy as the correspondence for 1966 suggests that Mr Tubbs was already occupying the premises. It seems at this time there was also a suggestion that rooms at the rear of the premises might also be sublet.

• A photocopy of the Lease between the Royal Asiatic Society and Mr Ralph Tubbs, Architect, for the two front rooms. Dated 2 April 1977.
• Correspondence regarding Mr Tubbs tenancy between the Royal Asiatic Society, Mr Tubbs, Morton-Smith & Company, Chartered Surveyors, and T.L. Wilson and Company, Solicitors. Mr Tubbs wrote to relinquish his tenancy on 25 December 1975.