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Letter from Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to The Press Association, to ask that the notice concerning the Universities Essay Prize be distributed for insertion in the daily press. With the letter is the notice which concerns the origins of the Prize and the Essay title chosen for 1935. Typed material, 2 pieces, letter dated 29 January 1935.

Standard Letter from Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to The Registrar, University, to invite their attention to the Universities Prize Essay Competition and ask whether their university would be interested in submitting Essays. Typed letter, undated.

Standard Letter from Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to The Porter, __ College, to ask them to display the notice concerning the Universities Prize Essay in an attempt to increase the number of participants in the competition. With the letter is a printed notice concerning the Competition, the essay title and the general rules. Typed letter and printed notice, notice dated 4 February 1935.

Notification from the Committee that the prize be awarded to the essay bearing the quotation "we are all in difficulty..." Handwritten and signed by the Committee, dated 8 November 1935.With this is a note of Evan Glyndwr Jones address and his tutor's signature from the University of Bristol. Handwritten, with printed letterhead, undated.

Two letters, one to The Press Association and one to The News Editor, The Near East, to ask for a notice to be distributed and inserted in the Papers concerning the winner of the Universities Essay Prize. With the letters is a statement concerning the winner for 1935 - Even Glyndwr Jones and that of 1934, Miss Dorothy A.L. Stede. Typed material, 3 pieces, letters dated 16 November 1935.

Essay - "The causes of the decay of the Mogul Empire" with identifier quotation, "We are all in difficulty, all in distraction, surrounded by a people; by a strange people. Memoirs of Babur." Typed manuscript, 16 pages + 2 hand-drawn maps. Also label page identifying it as the winning essay for 1935.

Newspaper cuttings - one from The Times to announce the advent of the 1935 Prize Essay Competition, and 4 from various newspapers announcing the winner.

"Prize Essay on India" - this is an annotated newspaper cutting from The Times 1 February 1934, with date changed to 30 January 1935 to announce the Universities Prize Essay for that year. Printed material with handwritten annotations.

Four newspaper cuttings, 2 from The Times, 1 from the Daily Telegraph, and 1 from the Yorkshire Post, to announce the recipient, Evan Glyndwr Jones, of the Royal Asiatic Society's Universities Essay Prize. Printed material, dated 18 November 1935.

The material within this series consists of administrative correspondence, correspondence with the winner, the prize essay, and newspaper cuttings.