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This series contains the forms submitted by individuals for applying membership (predominantly Resident or Non-Resident Members) and lists of applicants prepared for the Council meetings, where new members are elected.

Letter concerning Lord Bathurst and [Robert] Wilmot enrolling as members of the Asiatic Society. However, the majority of the content relates to slave trade in Java and the efforts to suppress it by Godert Alexander Gerard Philip, Baon van der Capellen, and a Reverend Philip Wedding. The letter is undated and unsigned, but both Lord Bathurst (1762-1834) and Robert John Wilmot (1784-1841) joined the Society in 1823 so the letter could be dated to the same year. With accompanying typed note describing the content.

Letter from Thomas Goldstϋcker expressing his thanks to the Society for electing him as a Resident Member.

Letter from Sir Edward Colebrooke to Edwin Norris, RAS Secretary, enclosing a notice (not there) regarding the memorial of Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859).

Note from A. B. Hill saying that he will be unable to attend the meeting and that he wishes to discontinue being a Resident Member of the Society.

Two letters from John Hutt, first one dated 10 November 1863, informing the Society of his address in Biarritz; the other dated 16 November 1863, saying that he had indeed relinquished his membership four years ago due to his constant absence from England, and had communicated his decision to the former Secretary of the Society.

Letters to James Redhouse, RAS Secretary, from Captain H. W. Raverty, first one dated 24 February 1863, rebuffing an article published by Lord Strangford, RAS President, in the Journal, which includes what Raverty regards as unjust remarks to him and his work on Pushtu (Pashto) grammar. The other two letters are both dated 16 May 1863, one (on blue paper) communicating his request to resign his membership, after finding out his reply to Lord Strangford's article is not to be published in the Journal, while the other one concerns the return of specimen of old Afghan writing and other writings.

Letter from Count Moltke, accepting and expressing his gratitude to the Society for electing him as a Foreign Member.

Letters with the Private Secretary to H. H. the Maharaja Dhiraj of Patiala regarding the death of Maharaja Dhiraj Bhupindra Singhji and the election of Maharaja Dhiraj of Patiala as a member, dated 27 April-10 June 1938.

Letter from Louis H. Gray, Columbia University, expressing his gratitude for being elected as a Corresponding Member. dated 18 June 1941.