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Note from the Secretary, RAS, to state that the top essay contravened both Rule 2 and Rule 6. Printed Compliment Slip with added note, undated.

Note from the Secretary, RAS, to an Entrant to inform that their essay was not awarded a prize. Printed compliment slip with handwritten note, undated.

Letter from C.H. Phillips and A. Master to the Secretary, RAS, to notify of their conclusions concerning the essays submitted for the Competition and the recommendations for winners. Typed with printed letterhead, 1 side, dated 4 February 1948.

Each essay had to be submitted anonymously - the entrants providing their identifying details and the endorsement of a member of their University faculty. There are three such identifiers of non-prizewinners - those of Michael Hobsley (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge), R.C.H. Briggs (New College, Oxford), Muriel M. Rees (St Hugh's College, Oxford), and the identifier for the winner, George Bennett (New College, Oxford). Seven items, all handwritten.

There are two prize winning essays belonging to N.A.D. Macrae and G.A. Cary.

The British Contribution to India - essay submitted by N.A.D. Macrae of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Typed, 17 pages. With the essay is the student's identifying letter. Typed with handwritten endorsement by Fellow-Director of Studies in Economics, Corpus Christi College.

The Influence of Persian Culture upon Europe - essay submitted by G.A. Cary, Trinity College, Cambridge. Typed, 19 pages. With the essay is his identifying details. Handwritten with accompanying envelope.

The Universities Essay Prize appeared to run with a different time schedule, the competition opening towards the end of 1948 and the prizewinner being notified in May 1949. The material in this series consists of some administrative correspondence and the prize-winning essay.

This is correspondence between the Royal Asiatic Society and the Essay prizewinner, Mr N.S. Adams.

Letter from N.S. Adams to the Secretary, RAS, to thank for the letter sent to him and to enclose his declaration of eligibility. He gives details of his education and the title of the essay. Handwritten with printed letterhead, 2 sides, dated 23 March 1949. It is countersigned by his tutor, 24 March 1949.