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Correspondence regarding the increase of membership subscriptions, dated 22 November 2010, with enclosed papers including Gift Aid declaration form, banker’s order form and notes on payment methods.

Letter from Professor Tony Stockwell, RAS President, to all Fellows, giving updates to Society’s activities and details of subscriptions, dated January 2020.

A template letter encouraging recipients to join the Society to support its cause, with a draft letter containing similar content. Undated, but the letter is signed by D. S. Margoliouth, RAS President, and therefore is datable to 1934-1937 during his tenure.

Drafts of papers delivered at General Meetings of the Society. These are:

• 'Translation of a Chinese Inscription found on a Rock at Kulangsu (Gulangyu)' by George Tradescant Lay, read at the General Meeting, 15 November 1845, 14 pages + paper wrapper.
• Paper on the cultivation of cotton and sugar by William McClelland, read 7 November 1846, with accompanying letter from W. Corgill, dated 18 May 1846, 17 pages.
• Notes on the progress of the native printing press in India, with reference to a list of periodicals and other works printed at the presses of Delhi and Bareilly with the list and translation by John Dowson. Read By H.H. Wilson, 2 December 1848, 23 pages.
• Notes on the Ruins at Gwalior by Lieutenant Thomas Briggs, read 20 November 1852 when Briggs showed a volume of drawings of the architecture of the temples visited by him at Gwalior and Badami, 8 pages + paper wrapper.
• Paper relating to the use by the Chinese government of the Chinese word for barbarian, read by Edwin Norris from documents communicated by the Foreign Office, 4 December 1852, 13 pieces + paper wrapper.
• Notes on the low caste Mangs of Kolhapoor (Kolhapur); an extract of a report by Lieutenant C. Barr, dated 1 January 1852. This was communicated by Colonel Sykes and read 4th June 1853, printed 10 pages.
• Extracts from letters received from Colonel Henry Rawlinson concerning the kings cited in an inscription. Two pieces, undated but probably dating to 1852-4 when the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society read several such extracts at the General Meetings.
• Description of the Drawings of Buddha and a Pagoda, presented to the Society by the First King of Siam (Thailand) on 23 July 1857. The original description is dated 26 May 1854. The paper was read by the President, H.H. Wilson, at the meeting of 2 January 1858, 8 pages.
• Paper entitled 'A Sketch of Buddhist mythology as represented in Chinese sheet-tract' read by Joseph Edkins, 22 January 1859, 7 pages.
• Papers relating to the inscriptions on two swords given to the Queen by the widow of Major Hodson, but displayed at the Royal Asiatic Society on 6 April 1861, 5 pieces.

This sub-series includes documents created by the Society's officers to facilitate the administration of membership.

These are leaflets providing information about the Society’s history, activities and membership (terms, benefits and subscriptions, etc), followed by a blank Certificate of Recommendation or Membership Application form. These include:

• one B&W version produced between 1917 and 1921, signed by Lord Reay, RAS President from 1893 to 1921 (1 copy)
• one B&W version produced between 1923 and 1947 (2 copies)
• four slightly different B&W versions produced between 1998 and 2004 (5 copies)
• one colour version produced in 2004 (4 copies)
• one colour version produced in [2006], same design with the previous one but with the Society's address updated to 14 Stephenson Way (2 copies)

Responses from the 1989 membership survey prompted the Society's decision to produce a newsletter to give its members a regular update of its recent activities. This was intended as a mean of membership engagement, particularly with those living outside of London or abroad. The first issue was published in February 1989, and presumably five more issues followed from 1989 to 1990. In 2003, the Society started a new series of newsletters, which were published twice a year.

The issues present in this sub-series are:

• No. 1, 22 February 1989
• No. 4, July 1990
• Winter 2003 (3 copies)
• Summer 2004 (4 copies)
• Winter 2005 (3 copies)
• Winter 2006 (3 copies)
• Summer 2007 (3 copies)
• Spring 2008 (6 copies)
• Summer 2009 (3 copies)
• Autumn 2010 (3 copies)

Also kept in this folder are drafts of and some reference material for the newsletters.

Correspondence concerning General Meetings. These are:

• Photocopy of a letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Phillipp Franz von Siebold to invite him to be present at the Meeting of the Society on 15 June 1850, handwritten, 2 pieces, dated 14 June 1850. The original of this letter is held at the Brandenstein Archive, Schlüchtern-Elm, Germany. Accompanying the letter are computer-printed transcripts in English and French of a letter from Phillipp Franz von Siebold to the Admiralty in London, dated 17 June 1850.
• Letter from James Whatman Bosanquet to Edwin Norris concerning whether Mr Dunbar should come from the Isle of Wight to deliver his paper, 2 sides, dated 30 March 1858.

Printed cards detailing the dates of the meeting for 1865 and 1868-9.

This sub-series includes pro-forma letters and notices to be sent to members concerning membership nomination, election and subscriptions.