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Correspondence between the Society and the following Honorary Members in the 1930s. These are mostly outgoing letters from the Society informing individuals the nomination and asking for their acceptance, and replies from the members, and in some cases contain other printed material such as obituaries and news clippings as attachments. Additional correspondence with or relating to the members have been filed together.

Elected 1932
Professor Heinrich Luders
Professor Th. Stcherbatsky (Fyodor Shcherbatskoy)
Sir Jaganji Jamshedji Modi
Professor August Fischer

Elected 1933
Dr Ernest Herzfeldt, with additional correspondence regarding a planned lecture at RAS on his discovery in Persepolis, Iran

Elected 1934
Professor Moritz Winternitz

Elected 1935
Mirza Muhammad Khan Qazvini
Professor Wilhelm Geiger
Professor Georges Coedes, with a notice of death in the 1970s

Elected 1936
Professor H. E. Winlock
Professor A. J. Wensinck

Elected 1937
Professor Jules Bloch
Professor Carl Brockelmann
Professor J. Ph. Vogel, with further correspondence with the Netherlands Ministry for the Colonies regarding his death in 1943
Mahamahopadhyaya Ganganath Jha
Professor Rene Dussaud

Elected 1938
Professor Arthur Christensen
Professor Jean Przyluski

Elected 1939
Professor E. Levi-Provencal

Correspondence between the Society and the following Honorary Fellows dating from 1960s to 1970s. These are mostly internal and outgoing letters concerning issue of diploma and membership invitation, with replies from the members. For some, there is accompanying material such as biographies, copies of press release, news clippings, postcards and obituaries.

Elected 1945
Professor H. S. Nyberg

Elected 1946
Professor Georg Morgemdieme
Professor Gaston Wiet

Elected 1958
Professor S. C. A. Schaeffer
Professor K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
Professor E. Waldschmidt

Elected 1961
Professor J. Pedersen

Elected 1962
Professor Igor Michailovic Diakonoff, with additional letters regarding the Society's greetings of his 60th and 75th birthdays

Elected 1963
Professor Etienne Lamotte, with a notice of death

Elected 1964
Professor George Tsereteli

Elected 1967
Professor Vasily Invanovich Abaev
Professor Louis Legeti

Elected 1969
Dr Enrico Cerulli
Professor Annemarie von Gabain
Professor M. B. Emeneau

Elected 1970
Professor Paul Wittek
Professor William F. Albright
Professor H. J. Polotsky

Elected 1971
Dr Gunnar Jarring

Elected 1974
Dr C. Sivaramamurti
Professor Mujtaba Minovi
Professor Nikolay Aleksandrovich Baskakov

Elected 1975
Professor Andrey Nikolayevich Kononov
Professor Giuseppe Tucci, with additional correspondence with the Buckingham Palace
Professor George C. Miles
Professor I. Stchoukine
Professor Murad Kamil
Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Professor Gordon A. Calver (as Fellow honoris causa)
Dr John Hansman (as Fellow honoris causa)

Other correspondence:

• Three letters from Eric C. Naylor nominating Dr Alan E. Haw to be elected an Honorary Member, dated April 1965, October 1967 and December 1968, and replies from the Society. 8 pieces.
• Letter from V. P. Rehbar concerning application to be sent for Honorary Fellowship and the Society’s publication scheme, dated June 1966. 1 piece. Note that V. P. Rehbar’s name did not appear in the list of members
• Letter from Shri Vidhata applying to be an Honorary Fellow of the society, with details of qualifications, dated January 1967. 3 pieces
• Letter from P. S. Belvalkar informing the Society of the death of his father, Dr S. K. Belvalkar (elected 1946), dated March 1967. 2 pieces
• Letter from Professor J. Gonda from the Netherlands informing the Society of the death of Professor R. Heine-Geldern (elected 1946) and Professor F. D. K Bosch (elected 1948), and reply from the Society, dated January 1969. 2 pieces
• Telegram from Jacques Ryckmans informing the Society of the death of Monsignor Gonzague Ryckmans (elected 1948), including a printed obituary, [September 1969]. 2 pieces
• Letters regarding the nomination of Professor Hsia Nai (Xia Nai), Deputy Head of the Delegation of Archaeological Finds of the People’s Republic of China, 1973-1974; Professor Hsia Nai’s reply declining the nomination, dated February 1975; and a subsequent letter, from Dr Michael Loewe, regarding the renewal of the invitation. Hsia Nai was re-nominated as an Honorary Fellow in the Council meeting on 13 June 1985, only a few days before his death. 8 pieces
• Letters from Professor Edward Ullendorff, proposing Professor Sabatino Moscati and Professor C. H. Gordon to be new Honorary Fellows, dated 13 October 1973 and 28 January 1974. 4 pieces

Correspondence between the Society and its Honorary Members dating from the mid-1970s to early 2000s. These are mostly letters concerning suggestions for candidates, proposals for Council and membership invitation, with replies from the members. These cover the below members:

Elected 1975
Professor Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov

Elected 1978
Professor Paul Balog
Professor Joshua Blau
Professor Claude Cahen
Professor Kazuo Enoki
Professor Inalcik Halil
Professor Tadeusz Lewicki
Professor Hajime Nakamura
Professor H. K. Sherwani
Professor D. E. Hettiaratchi

Elected 1984
Professor Sukumar Sen

Elected 1985
Mr Hirad C. Chaudhuri
Professor Juan Vernet Gines
Professor M. C. Subhadradis Diskul
Professor B. N. Mukherjee
Academician M. I. Useinov

Elected 1991
Dr Ivan Hrbek
Professor Erik Zurcher
Professor Tatsuro Yamamoto
Professor Walther Heissig
Professor Jonas C. Greenfield
Professor A. K. Narain
Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani
Dr Firoze M. Kotwal
Professor A. A. Duri
Professor David Ayalon
Professor Jane Aubin
Mrs Eveline Poree-Maspero (already passed away at the time of invitation)
Elizabeth Samson

Elected 1993
Professor Dieter Schlingloff
Dr Parmeshwari Lal Gupta
Professor Paul Thieme
The Reverend Professor Michele Piccirillo

Elected 1998
Mr Hugh Bett (Fellow honoris causa)
Dr Robert Jones (Fellow honoris causa)

Other correspondence in this file includes:

• Letter from A. D. H. Bivar informing the Society of the death of Professor Emile Benveniste (elected 1946), dated March 1977
• Letters from Mr J Nagar nominating M. M. Nagar, former Director of State Museum and Archaeology in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as a Honorary Fellow, with details of his qualifications, and reply from the Society, dated April 1977
• Letter from Jean Naudou, Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Civilisation at University of Lille III, informing the Society of the death of Professor Philippe Stern (elected 1948), dated May 1979
• Letter from Denis Sinor, Distinguished Professor of Uralic-Altaic Studies at Indiana University, informing the Society of the death of Professor W. Norman Brown (elected 1952), Deny and S. Elisseef (elected 1955), dated January 1980
• Letter from S. K. Punjya at the University of Warwick recommending Juan Mascaro, a Sanskrit scholar, as an Honorary Fellow, with a memorandum from Professor J. C. Wright from SOAS giving his opinion on Juan Mascaro, 1985-1986
• Documents relating to the proposal for Honorary Fellows in 1994, including a letter from Dr G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, proposing architect Isam Awwad (also a RAS member), with a relevant news clipping; and a CV of Professor Gregory Bongard-Levin. With a note saying ‘not yet considered’
• Letter from A. D. H. Bivar relaying a request from Professor A. H. Dani for possible consideration of Professor Mohammad Salim as an Honorary Member, with details of qualifications, dated January 2004

In the Annual General Meeting on 12 May 1932, the Council passed a resolution that the Ambassador or Minister of every Oriental Power accredited to the Court of St. James' should be invited to become a Foreign Extraordinary Member of the Society, under the terms of Rule 10 of the Charter, which stipulated that ‘Foreign potentates or distinguished officials of Oriental Powers may be admitted by the Council to be Foreign Extraordinary Members’.

This sub-series contains the invitation letters sent to these individuals and further correspondence relating to the election of Foreign Extraordinary Members.

Letters concerning the Society’s invitations to various foreign diplomats and monarchs to become its Foreign Extraordinary Fellows, including:

• Letters and notes from E. D. Maclagan, RAS President, and Professor Margoliouth regarding the latter’s proposal that ministers of Eastern States should be made Foreign Extraordinary Members of the Society, with further correspondence, invitation letter drafts and a list of individuals whom the invitation was sent to and their responses. 13 pieces, dated 25 February-20 January 1932
• Letter from J. Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador, accepting the invitation, with further correspondence (There seems to be a confusion of whom the invitation was intended for, and the Society subsequently suggested Mr Hirosi Saito, Counsellor of Embassy, and Mr Renzo Sawada, First Secretary of Embassy, to apply for ordinary membership). 6 pieces, dated 27 November 1931-8 January 1932
• Letter from Ahmed Ali, Minister of Afghan Legation, accepting the invitation, with further correspondence. 4 pieces, dated 28 November-16 December 1931
• Letter from Alfred Sao-ke Sze, Minister of Chinese Legation, accepting the invitation, with further correspondence. 4 pieces, dated 26 November-18 December 1931
• Letter from H. Afifi, Minister of Royal Egyptian Legation, accepting the invitation, with further correspondence. 2 pieces, dated 27 November-8 December 1931
• Letters relating to invitation to Bajirond Zallaka Agedaw, Minister of Ethiopian Legation. 6 pieces, dated 1 December 1931-6 June 1932
• Letter from H. A. Afnan, Minister of Iraq Legation, accepting the invitations, with further correspondence. 6 pieces, dated 1 December 1931-29 April 1932
• Letters from Aligolikhay Ausariy, Minister of the Persian Legation, regarding the invitation, with further correspondence. 4 pieces, dated 7-22 December 1931
• Letters from Damras and Subam Sompooli, outgoing and incoming Ministers of the Siamese Legation, accepting the invitation. 10 pieces, dated 12 December 1931-29 May 1933
• Letter from Minister of the Turkish Embassy, accepting the invitation, with further correspondence. 2 pieces, dated 3-10 December, 1931
• Letters with Secretary of the Royal Legation of Hedjaz Nejd regarding the correct title of its Minister Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. 3 pieces, dated 22-23 January 1932
• Letter from Danrong Rajanubhab, Prince of Siam, accepting the invitation, with further correspondence. 6 pieces, dated 14 March-7 July 1932
• Letter from Commanding General Bahadur Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, Minister of the Nepalese Legation, accepting the invitation, with further correspondence and relevant news clippings. 16 pieces, dated 13 April-30 October 1934
• Letter from the Private Secretary to the King of Egypt, accepting the invitation, with relevant correspondence with the Royal Egyptian Legation and Ras el Tin Palace. 17 pieces, dated 20 June 1934-21 March 1938
• Letter from M. R. Smaksman, Assistant Private Secretary to the King and Queen of Siam, communicating the King of Siam’s acceptance of the invitation, with relevant correspondence. 13 pieces, dated 27 May-20 November 1934
• Letters with Ali Mohammad, Minister of the Royal Afghanistan Legation, regarding the invitation to the King of Afghanistan, with relevant correspondence. 9 pieces, dated 24 November 1937-28 April 1938
• Letters with the Royal Iraqi Legation regarding the invitation to the King of Iraq. 5 pieces, dated 26 November-5 December 1937
• Letter from Marichi Man Singh, Private Secretary to the King of Nepal, communicating the King’s wish to decline the invitation ‘because of his seeing no chance whatsoever of being able to do anything or making himself useful’ for the Society, with relevant correspondence. 7 pieces, dated 26 November 1937-3 January 1938
• Letter from W. G. Neale, India Office, explaining that it would be incorrect to invite the Nizam of Hyderabad to be a Foreign Extraordinary Member, as he, being a ruling prince of India, is not a foreign potentate, with relevant correspondence. 6 pieces, dated 10-14 December 1937
• Letter from Harry St John Bridger Philby giving his opinion to the invitation letter to be sent to the King of Saudi-Arabia, with relevant correspondence. 5 pieces, dated 11 December 1937-2 January 1938

Letters regarding the Society’s invitation to various foreign diplomats and monarchs to become its Foreign Extraordinary Fellows, including:

• Outgoing letter to and reply from General Honkon Lee, Ambassador of the Korean Embassy, accepting the invitation. 2 pieces, dated 22-27 February 1963
• Outgoing copy invitation letters the Soviet Union Ambassador, Kuwait Ambassador and Jordanian Ambassador, with the Jordanian Ambassador’s one marked ‘rejected 2 months ago’. 3 pieces, all dated 2 January 1967
• Outgoing letter to and reply from Zeki Kuneralp, Turkish Ambassador, accepting the invitation. 2 pieces, dated 23 February-1 March 1971
• Letters to the Ethiopian Ambassador and from Professor Edward Ullendorff regarding the invitation to the Emperor of Ethiopia. 5 pieces, dated 23 February-3 December 1971
• Condolence message to the Royal Swedish Embassy for the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf, a Foreign Extraordinary Member of the Society for 18 years, with subsequent letters and a telegram regarding his memorial service in Westminster Abbey. Includes further printed material regarding the memorial service, including an admission card, a copy of the order or service and a news clipping. 10 pieces and 1 booklet, dated 18-24 September 1973
• Letter from Prince Mikasa of Japan, accepting the invitation and related correspondence. 3 pieces, 8-16 May 1975
• Letter from Phan Wannamethee, Thai Ambassador, accepting the invitation. 1 piece, dated 19 February 1979
• Outgoing letter to and reply from Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, son of Aga Khan III, accepting the invitation. 3 pieces, dated 20 June-7 October 1991
• Letter from Dr A. A. Shareef, Tanzanian High Commissioner, accepting the invitation, with related correspondence from Dr G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville and Dr. D. W. Mac Dowall regarding the background of Shareef, and an enclosed CV of Shareef for the Society’s reference. 7 pieces, dated 24 July 1996-16 January 1997
• Letter from Zeng Rong, Secretary to Chinese Ambassador to the UK, expressing the Ambassador's appreciation of the possibility of becoming an honorary member and enquiring for more information. 1 piece, dated 18 March 1999. Ambassador Ma Zhengang was elected as a Foreign Extraordinary Fellow in 1999

The Society has, and continues to, run its membership on a subscription basis, with members paying different subscription rates according to their types of membership. Historically, the first payment of subscription was due on election, and then annually on the first date of January of each year. This series contains the bound volumes of ledgers recording these subscription payments from members. There is only one ledger dating to the 19th century, covering the period from 1823 to 1838. The remaining volumes date from 1924 to the late 20th century, and the volume for 1977-1988 is wanting.