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Igor de Rachewiltz was awarded the Denis Sinor Medal in 2007. This material contains correspondence and administrative documents concerning the award of the medal:

• Letter from Bethan Parry, Sales/Finance Co-ordinator, Royal Mint to inform of a change in their bank account. Typed, 1 piece, dated 6 July 2006.
• Letter from Igor de Rachewiltz to Professor Anthony Stockwell, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank the Society for their award of the Denis Sinor Medal. He has written to Denis Sinor to express his elation. Because of his health he will be unable to come to London for the presentation. Typed, 1 piece, dated 21 May 2007.
• Copies of emails between Igor de Rachewiltz and Anthony Stockwell concerning his award and regret that he will not be able to come to London. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 21 May - 6 July 2007.
• Invoice from the Royal Mint for the engraving of the medal, Typed, 1 piece, dated 8 November 2007.
• Letter from Rachel Evans, Medal Units Accounts Manager, Royal Mint, to the Royal Asiatic Society to inform of an outstanding debt on the account. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 7 January 2008.

Following the death of Denis Sinor on 12 January 2011 a further £10000 was bequeathed to fund the Denis Sinor Medal. This material concerns the administration of the legacy:

• Letter from Lawrence Graham LLP to the Royal Asiatic Society to inform that his firm LG legal are acting in the UK estate of Denis Sinor and that a pecuniary legacy of £10000 is bequeathed to the Society. Typed, 1 piece, dated 29 March 2012.
• Notice of Unsupervised Administration from the State of Indiana to the Royal Asiatic Society to inform that the Old National Trust Company are appointed as Executor of the Estate of Denis Sinor. Three copies, 9 pieces, signed Linda Robbins, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe County, dated 25 January 2011.
• Letter from Dr Alison Ohta, Director, Royal Asiatic Society, to Lawrence Graham to thank for his letter informing of the legacy and to confirm that the Society is able to accept the legacy for the purpose stated. Typed, 1 piece, dated 10 April 2012.
• Letter from Lawrence Graham to the Royal Asiatic Society to enclose the cheque for the legacy amount and to advise that the Society must fill in a W-8BEN form. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 23 April 2012.
• Notification from Alison Ohta to acknowledge receipt of the pecuniary legacy. With this receipt is a Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding. Typed and printed with handwritten insertions, 2 pieces, dated 1 May 2012.

The Denis Sinor Medal was awarded to Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams in 2015. The material within this series includes:

• Email from Professor Samuel Lieu, Inaugural Distinguished Professor Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney, attaching a statement of nomination for Professor Sims-Williams, a statement of achievements of Professor Sims-Williams, and a statement of support by Dr Gunner Mikkelsen, Macquarie University. The attachments are present. Typed, email dated 17 October 2014, 7 pieces.
• Email from Enrico Morano, President of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, supporting Professor Samuel Lieu's nomination. Typed, dated 17 October 2014, 1 piece.
• Email from Yutaka Yoshida, Professor at Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, supporting the nomination. Typed, dated 22 October 2014, 1 piece.
• Emails between Camilla Larsen, RAS Executive Officer, and The Royal Mint regarding medal minting and engraving. Typed, dated 29 February-8 April 2016, 7 pieces.
• Invoice from the Royal Mint for medal minting and engraving. Scanned copy, dated 11 May 2016, 1 piece.
• Five digital photographs of Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams giving his lecture at the Society's premises in Stephenson Way, and of the presentation of the Medal to him by Dr Gordon Johnson, President, Royal Asiatic Society. This event took place on 13 May 2016.

The Barwis-Holliday was established in 1977 by the donation of investments to the value of £690 by Major J.E. Barwis-Holliday and supplemented by a bequest of £1,000 from the estate of the donor. The income was to be used to finance a monetary award for a paper upon a Far-Eastern subject to be published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. These papers consist of material created in the administration and conferment of the award.

Correspondence concerning the inauguration and endowment of the Barwis-Holliday Award for a paper upon a Far-Eastern subject to be published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Letter from Bebe Barwis-Holliday, wife of J. Edward Barwis-Holliday to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to send a newspaper cutting detailing Major Barwis-Holliday's trip to Japan as the British delegate to the OISCA conference in Japan, dated 2 October 1974. The cutting is with the letter.

Letter From J.E. Barwis-Holliday to Professor C.F. Beckingham, President, Royal Asiatic Society, proposing the establishment of the Barwis-Holliday award to encourage more scholarship on the Far East, dated 18 April 1977. Also a covering note to Miss Diana Crawford, Secretary, RAS, to include a copy of the letter and a copy of her acknowledgement of receipt to Barwis-Holliday, dated 20 April 1977.

Correspondence between members of the Society in response to the proposed Barwis-Holliday Award.

Letter from C.F. Beckingham, President, Royal Asiatic Society to B.W. Robinson to enclose a copy of the letter from Barwis-Holliday proposing the Award and commenting favourably on it.

Letter from A.D.H. Bivar to C.F. Beckingham enthusing about the proposed award.