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Between 2006 and 2011, a Fundraising Group or Committee was in place to raise funds for the Society. The material in this series consists of:

• Minutes for Meeting of the Fundraising Group or Committee between 18 September 2006 and 9 June 2011.
• Fundraising brochures: a colour brochure entitled 'Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland' with accompanying leaflet 'How can you contribute to the Future of the Royal Asiatic Society', 2 copies of each.
• Printed card listing Members of Council 2008-2009, Members of the Fund Raising Committee and Members of Staff.

The majority of administrative papers are not retained after their active lives. These ones have ben kept as of potential archival interest. These are:

• Correspondence between Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society and D.H. Bramall, T.L. Wilson & Co., Solicitors, concerning the whereabouts of original Deeds of Trust for some of the Society's Trust Funds. Two letters, typed with handwritten annotations, dated 19 January - 22 February 1966.
• Budget and allied papers for 1998-2004, 37 pieces, typed and computer printed.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society Accounts and Accounting Procedures June 2000' giving a brief account of each of the function in the Society's ledger, 5 pieces, computer printed.
• Correspondence with auditors covering the period from 1991-2005, 60 pieces, typed and computer printed.
• Correspondence concerning the Society's use of the Charities Aid Foundation from 2010-2012, 20 pieces, typed and computer printed.

The papers consist of two sets of manuscripts and notes:

• Draft Manuscript and Notes towards a book on the Azerbaijan Crisis
• Draft Manuscript and Notes for a book on Old Tehran made by John Cecil Cloake and Margaret Cloake during his posting to Tehran with allied Correspondence.

There are seven folders of material covering the draft manuscript and research notes for a book that Cloake intended to publish on the events leading up to Azerbaijan Crisis of 1945-47, the crisis itself, and its aftermath. According to the donor, his book was researched during Cloake's time at the London School of Economics, 1972-1973.

This draft is not fully complete but consists of 14 chapters/ partial chapters plus appendices and bibliographical material. The manuscript is a detailed historical narrative of the events associated with the Azerbaijan crisis.The draft consists of handwritten notes with some additional hand-drawn maps. The chapters are:
Book I The Pre-History,
Chapter 1 The Great Game: Russian Encroachment and British Reaction.
Chapter 2 Constitutional Revolution; Fabric and the Nationalists; Russian occupation and war
Chapter 3 Intervention and Communist Experiment: The Persian Socialist Soviet Republic and other rebellions
Chapter 4 Between the wars: Growing Independence

Book II Wartime,
Chapter 5 Occupation 1941
Chapter 6, From Tripartite Alliance to Tripartitie Declaration: 1942-3
Chapter 7 1944: The Oil Concession Crisis
Chapter 8 The Scene is Set: 1945

Book 3 The Crisis,
Chapter 9 Crisis Events, November - December 1945
Chapter 10 Crisis Events, January - March 1946
Chapter 11 Crisis Events, April - June 1946
Chapter 12 Crisis Events, July - October 1946
Chapter 13 Crisis Events, October 1946 - March 1947
Chapter 14 The Aftermath, 1947-1950

Supplementary material for Book 4,
The Preview and Bibliography

These are handwritten chronological research notes taken from United States sources of events relating to the Azerbaijan Crisis. The title for this item comes from the original file in which the material was housed.

These are handwritten notes taken from Secondary Source material concerning the Azerbaijan Crisis and its related history.The title for this material comes from the original file in which it was housed.

These are handwritten notes taken from Foreign Office Records. These are referenced according to the record. There is also a photocopy of a Report from Sir Reader William Bullard to Anthony Eden, dated 21 May 1943 entitled "Persia: Secret". The title for this material comes from the original file in which it was housed.

These are handwritten, referenced notes taken from Foreign Office records concerning the Azerbaijan Crisis. There are also photocopies of several Foreign Office Records:

• Copies of letters from F.T. Gousev to Anthony Eden and from Anthony Eden to Sobolev, 20 January 1945
• Memorandum and Summary of Memorandum on Persian, 4 August 1945
• Letter from Foreign office to Tehran, 21 August 1945
• Resume of the Note Forwarded by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, 17 November 1945
• Note Despatched by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy, Teheran, 22 November 1945
• Note Forwarded by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy, Teheran, 23 November 1945
• Note Forwarded by the Iranian Government to the Soviet Embassy, Teheran, 23 November 1945
• Note from the Soviet Embassy in Teheran to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 26 November 1945
• Letter from Archibald Clark Kerr, British Embassy, Moscow to V.N. Molotov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Moscow, 26 November 1945
• Telegram from Archibald Clark Kerr to V.N. Molotov, 26 November 1945

The title for this material comes from the original file in which it was housed.

Handwritten research notes. These include further Foreign Office Notes and bibliographical material. The title for this file was taken from the original folder in which the material was housed.