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Correspondence with the Inland Revenue Valuation Office, (St. Marylebone Area), concerning the Exemption from Rating for Scientific and Literary Societies as defined by the Scientific Societies Act, 1945, and how this ruling affects the rates paid by the Royal Asiatic Society, 4 items, dated 12 February 1952 - 17 September 1952.

Correspondence from the 1960s. This contains:

• Correspondence with Price Waterhouse & Co. concerning creating separate trust funds for staff pensions and dilapidation of the Society's property, 4 pieces, typed, dated 24 January 1964 - 25 May 1964.
• Correspondence with the Royal Society and British Academy regarding rate relief for the Royal Asiatic Society and obtaining a grant from the British Academy to compensate for the change in rates, 35 pieces, typed, dated 30 April 1964 - 29 January 1970.
• Correspondence with Price Waterhouse & Co. concerning enquiries made by the Chief Inspector of Claims concerning new investments made by the Society, 2 pieces, typed, dated 16 November 1967 - 17 November 1967.

Correspondence with the Inland Revenue Chief Inspector of Taxes and Price Waterhouse & Co., concerning the investment of the B.C. Trust Fund, 2 items, dated 29 April 1970 - 15 May 1970.

Correspondence with the Inland Revenue Claims Branch concerning the changes in the Deed of Covenants for the Society, 8 pieces, dated 1 February 1980 - 1 May 1980, typed and handwritten.

Documents and correspondence concerned with governmental grants received by the Society.

Correspondence concerning grants given by the India Office to the Society. These are:

• Letter from East India House to Edwin Norris, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Secretary of State for India is willing to continue the grant given to the Society previously given by the East India Company, 1 piece, handwritten, dated 10 December 1858.
• Letter from India Office to the Royal Asiatic Society to inform that the donation to the Society has been sanctioned, 1 piece, handwritten, dated 20 November 1889.
• Correspondence between the India Office, Royal Asiatic Society, and E.S. M. Perowne, Solicitor, concerning the India Office grant to the Society, 50 pieces, typed and handwritten, dated 3 October 1931 - 7 November 1951.

Correspondence concerning grants from Governments of Hong Kong, Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements. These are:

• Correspondence with the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, London, concerning the Government of Hong Kong's grant to the Society, 22 pieces, typed and handwritten, dated 26 February 1927 - 1 September 1936.
• Correspondence concerning the grant to the Society from the Federated Malay States, 24 pieces, typed and handwritten, dated 11 February 1936 - 17 November 1936.
• Correspondence with the Colonial Office concerning grants from Hong Kong, Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements, 17 pieces, typed and handwritten, dated 12 October 1942 - 4 February 1956.
• Letter from the Secretary for Recreation and Culture, Government Secretariat, Hong Kong, to the Royal Asiatic Society to inform the Society of the discontinuation of its donation to the Society, 1 piece, typed, dated 23 August 1990.

Investigation into governmental support for other Asiatic societies in Europe. Correspondence to ascertain levels of government support for Asiatic Societies. Correspondents within the Royal Asiatic Society include Colonel Hoysted, Sir E. Denison Ross, L.D. Barnett, C. Otto Blagden, Sir Edward Maclagan, and Dr A.J. Ashberry. Correspondence with external organisations include the India Office, Foreign Office, Rivista di Scienze Studi Orientali, Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft, Journal Asiatique, Zeithsvhrift der Deutschen. Dated 3 January 1938 - 20 February 1939.

Correspondence from the High Commission for Pakistan concerning their annual grant to the Society, 2 pieces, dated 18 January 2007 - 2 February 2007.

Correspondence concerning Grants and Donations to the Society from other Institutions. These are:

• A note from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Royal Asiatic Society to send a bank draft as their one-half of the grant for the preparation of a book on Robert de Nobili by Vincent Cronin, 1 piece, typed, dated 7 June 1957.
• A draft letter to the Drapers Company to ask for support for the Royal Asiatic Society, 3 pieces, typed, dated 4 September 1957.
• A letter from Edwin Clarke, Assistant Scientific Secretary, The Wellcome Trust, to Sir Gerard Clauson, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform of the provision of a grant to the Society to list all the extant medical and scientific manuscripts in Arabic in the United Kingdom,1 piece, typed with handwritten annotations, dated 4 November 1959.
• British Academy General Grant: Correspondence concerning an annual grant from the British Academy to assist in financing the Royal Asiatic Society, 43 pieces, handwritten and typed, dated 16 July 1942 - January 1965.
• British Academy Journal Grant: Correspondence concerning an annual grant from Nuffield Fund administered by the British Academy to assist in financing the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 54 pieces, typed and handwritten, dated 17 December 1954 - 7 December 1964.
• Neil Kreitman Foundation: Correspondence concerning a grant from the Neil Kreitman Foundation to support the Society, 6 pieces, typed and handwritten, dated 18 February 1993 - 29 April 1993.
• Letter from Camilla Larsen, Executive Officer, Royal Asiatic Society to Ms Crowley, Mercer's Charitable Foundation, to acknowledge receipt of a grant for the computerised cataloguing project of the Society, 1 piece, typed, dated 30 October 2009.