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B&W photograph of Sir Richard Winstedt, with a letter from the Bulletin of SOAS returning the photograph after reproducing it as the frontispiece of the issue, dated 8 January 1964.

This sub-series contains biographical material and articles written by or dedicated to members of the Society.

Photocopy of the preface to the Festschrift dedicated to Prince Takahito Mikasa on his 75th birthday, giving details of his qualifications. The preface was written by Masao Mori, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Middle Easter Culture Center in Japan.

Photocopy of an article entitled 'Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837): The Fourth President of the Asiatic Society' by Ludo Rocher, from South Asian Review, South Asian Literary Association Journal, Volume VIII, Number 5, December 1984.

Typed biographical and research notes about Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860) complied by Yvonne Devereux, with a letter from her to the RAS Librarian enclosing the notes for comments and suggestions, dated 3 May 1994.

A copy of Journal of the Victorian Military Society, Issue 177, Spring 2020, which includes an article on Major James Franklin (1783-1834) written by Richard Voss. Also kept together is a letter of donation from Voss enclosing the Journal, dated 3 July 2020.

Typed document containing a blurb of Martin Moir’s book ‘Not Exactly Shangri-La’, his biography, and a transcript of an interview of him discussing the book, November 2009.

‘Sir Richard Winstedt’, offprint from JRAS, October 1963, containing a biography and tributes to Richard Winstedt.

Typed article titled ‘Peter Collin and the RAS’ by Peter Collin, being a personal account of his connection with the Society, July 2020, including an introduction by him on the early members of the Society, written between 2017 and 2020. The introduction was later published online on the RAS website in ‘Founding Members of the Society Prosopography’.

News clipping of an article entitled ‘Asiatic v. Asian’, in which the writer writes that the old and time-honoured wording ‘Asiatic’ in the name of RAS should be changed to ‘Asian’. The article includes a photograph of Richard Winstedt, then President of the Society.