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Printed admittance tickets for lectures held at the Society:

1970

• 8 January: E.H.S. Simmonds, 'Thai Dance Drama'.
• 21 January: Professor D.M. Lang, 'Cultures of the Caucasus'. This lecture was held in Edinburgh.
• 12 February: Dr V.J. Parry, 'Some Aspects of Ottoman Warfare'.
• 12 March: Dr L.E.R. Picken, 'Music at the T'ang Court'.
• 9 April: James Bynon, 'Berber Songs from the Atlas Mountains'.
• 28 May: Dr G. Fehérvári, 'Persian Lacquer-Painted Books'. This lecture was held in Durham.
• 11 June: Clifford Owen, 'Hunting with Animals'.
• 15 October: Dr J.R. Marr, 'Some Botanists of South and South-East Asia'. This was the Burkill Memorial Lecture held jointly with the Linnnean Society.
• 12 November: Dr J.C. Harle, 'Early Western Calukya Sculpture'.

• 10 December: G.W. Seager, 'Oriental Carpets and Rugs of Tent, Village and Town'.

  1971

• 14 January: Dr G.B. Milner, 'Homo Ridens: Towards a New Theory of Laughter'.
• 11 February: Dr J.D. Latham, 'Al-Andalus and the Destinies of Barbary'.
• 16 February: Dr J.S. Cummins, 'The Pei-T'ang Library in Peking'. This lecture was held in Sheffield.
• 11 March: Dr W.E. Skillend, 'The Korean Language in Literature'.
• 1 April: Dr R. Fischer, 'Archaeological Surveys in Afghan Seistan 1960-1970'.
• 10 June: John Irwin, 'Mughal Jades and their Relation to Chinese and West Asian Traditions'.
• 14 October: Dr James Dickie, 'Contemporary Trends in Islamic Architecture in Egypt'.
• 11 November: Miss M.N. Bainbridge, 'The Fifty-Second Day: A Turkish Funeral Rite'.
• 29 November: Professor E.H.S. Simmonds, 'The Three Thai capitals, an Historical and Cultural Commentary'. This lecture was held in Canterbury.

• 9 December: A. Hutt, 'Three Minarets in the Kirman Region'.

  1972

• 13 January: Dr J.G. Coates, 'An Introduction to Komi-Zryan Literature'.
• 18 January: Basil W. Robinson, 'Persian Miniature Paintings'. This lecture was held in St. Andrews.
• 10 February: D.B. Doe, 'Southern Arabia before Islam: Archaeological Aspects'.

• 9 March: Dr H.T. Norris, 'Oriental Myths and Motifs West of the Nile.
  *' 8 June: Professor H.L. Shorto, 'Pagan: An Ancient Capital of Burma'. This lecture followed the presentation to Sir Mortimer Wheeler of a special volume of the Journal in his honour.

  1973

• 11 October: Dr M.A.N. Loewe, 'Recent Archaeological Discoveries in China'.
• 8 November: John Leach, 'Psalteries and Dulcimers of Asia'.

• 13 December: Sir Gerard Clauson, 'Apologia'. This lecture was cancelled and replaced by one by E.H.S. Simmonds on 'Love and Nature in Thai Poetry'.

  1974

• 10 January: Dr R.F. Gombrich, 'The Prince who Gave Away Everything; The Vessantara Jákarta in Sinhalese Painting'.
• 14 February: John Ayers, 'The Changing View of Chinese Ceramics'.
• 14 March: Dr May Beattie, 'The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection of Oriental Rugs and Related Pieces'.
• 4 April: Professor W.N. Arafat, 'New Light on the Story of the Banî Quraiza and the Jews of Medina'.
• 13 June: Dr W. O'Flaherty, 'The Indian Jekyll and Hyde: The Myth of Vena, Alias Prthu'.
• 10 October: Dr E. Sollberger, 'A Sumerian "Reformer-King" of the Mid-Third Millennium'. This is a draft.

• 14 November: Dr W.G. Archer, 'Patrons of Painting in the Punjab Hills'.

  1975

• 9 January: Professor C.R. Bawden, 'The Mongol Epic'.
• 13 February: Dr J. Hansman, 'Excavations at Shahr-i Qumis: A Parthian City in Iran'.
• 10 April: Dr Susan A. Skilliter, 'Catherine de Medici's Turkish ladies-in-waiting'.

Correspondence connected with the organisation of Lectures:

• Correspondence with Dr Klaus Fischer, 12 items, dated 25 March 1969 - 21 March 1971.
• Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr J.C. Marr, held jointly with the Linnean Society, 22 items, dated 30 April 1969 - 25 September 1970.
• Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr R.S. McGregor, 4 items, dated 7 May 1969 - 15 May 1970.
• Correspondence with Miss Margaret N. Bainbridge, 4 items dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with H.T. Norris, 6 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Dr Skillend, 5 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Professor W.E. Emery, 3 items, dated 7 May 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr J.C. Harle, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 3 November 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr G.B. Milner, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 15 January 1971.
• Correspondence with G. Seager, 10 items, dated 5 June 1970 - 21 December 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr J.D. Latham, 3 items, dated 17 June 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Sir Ralph Turner, 1 item, dated 26 June 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr F.R. Allchin, 2 items, dated 31 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr James Dickie, 4 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 10 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Dr J.G. Coates, 10 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 17 March 1972.
• Correspondence with Hugh Richardson, 1 item, dated 6 June 1971.
• Correspondence with Professor Harry Smith, 4 items, dated 22 June 1971 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Professor C. Dowsett, 9 items, dated 1 July 1971 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with B.D. Doe, 3 items, dated 13 July 1971 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Helen W. Brown, 3 items, dated 21 July 1971 - 2 August 1971.
• Correspondence with R.W. Skelton, 4 items, dated 9 August 1971 - 20 January 1972.
• Confirmation of lecture by Anthony Hutt, 1 item, dated 9 December 1971.
• Correspondence with D.J. Duncanson, 4 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 28 July 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor P.L. Gupta, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 5 May 1972.
• Correspondence with Dr John Boardman, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 25 April 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor B. Lewis, 3 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 1 May 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr R.D. Barnett, 7 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 8 December 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor James Barr, 5 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 4 September 1972.
• Correspondence with David James, 4 items, dated 31 May 1972 - 22 February 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor Mary Boyce, 3 items, dated 1 June 1972 - 20 July 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor J.B. Segal, 3 items, dated 6 October 1972 - 13 May 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr Carmen Blacker, 6 items, dated 7 April 1972 - 19 December 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor Maurice Freedman, 4 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 11 July 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr M.A. Shaban, 9 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 12 June 1973.
• Correspondence with F.E. Thompson, 1 item, dated 14 November 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor C.R. Bawden, 8 items, dated 5 December 1972 - 12 August 1974.
• Correspondence with Sir John Pilcher, 2 items, dated 21 January 1973 - 23 January 1973.
• Correspondence with John Leach, 5 items, dated 3 February 1973 - 7 May 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr E.D. O'Flaherty, 4 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr Michael Loewe, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 16 May 1973.
• Correspondence with John Ayers, 5 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 3 October 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr May H. Beattie, 14 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 18 March 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor A.F.L. Beeston, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 6 June 1973.
• Correspondence with Sir Gerard Clauson, 3 items, dated 15 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor C.E. Bosworth, 3 items, dated 21 May 1973 - 13 June 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr R.F. Gombrich, 3 items, dated 22 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor V.L. Menage, 3 items, dated 29 June 1973 - 31 May 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor W.N. Arafat, 2 items, dated 31 July 1973 - 2 August 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr W.G. Archer, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 3 September 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor E.J.H. Corner, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr John Hansman, 1 item, dated 30 April 1974.
• Correspondence with P.T. Denwood, 4 items, dated 4 June 1974 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr Susan Skilliter, 4 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 30 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor D. Wiseman, 2 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 8 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr E. Sollberger, 3 items, dated 9 July 1974 - 30 July 1974.
• Internal correspondence regarding lectures, 7 items, dated 24 January 1971 - 15 August 1974.
• Material for the Minorsky Memorial Lecture, 1977.

Meeting Cards, Admittance Tickets and Correspondence connected to Lectures and General Meetings held between 1980 and 1989.

Printed cards with a list of the Council, information about the Library; and listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987 0ctober to December, 1988, February to June, 1988-89, 1989-90.

Printed admittance tickets for lectures held at the Society:

1989

• 8 June: Dr Julian Raby, Lands of the Grand Signor: European Visions of the Muslim World in the 16th Century.
• 12 October: Dr Mehrdad Shokoohy, Architecture of the Sultanate of Ma'Bar, South India. This was a replacement lecture to the original advertised.

Administrative documents concerned with Lectures and General Meetings:

• Advertising documents and correspondence concerned with the Royal Asiatic Society's celebration of the bicentenary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal which took place at the General Meeting of 12 January 1984 with Sir Cyril Philips lecturing on 'The Young Wellington in India'. There was also a lecture held at the British Library, given by Garland Cannon, on 14 March 1984, in connection with their exhibition, 'Sir William Jones and the Asiatic Society of Bengal', which ran from 20 January - 29 April 1984. 14 items, dated 16 March 1978 - 3 July 1984.
• 'Fabric of History', a newspaper article from the Evening Standard about the home of Philippa Scott. The article was kept as she pulled out of giving a lecture at short notice. Dated 21 December 1988.
• Correspondence with Walid Arafat concerning his lecture, 2 items, dated 31 December 1988.
• Letter from Helen Ballhatchett concerning her forthcoming lecture, 1 item, dated 4 March 1989.
• Letter from Dr I. Raeside concerning his forthcoming lecture, 1 item, dated 24 October 1989.
• Biographical Notes for Christopher Aslet, 3 items, dated 11 December 1989.

Meeting Cards, Notices of Lectures Series, and Notices of Change of lecture dates, and Correspondence connected to Lectures and General Meetings held between 1990 and 1999.

Printed cards with a list of the Council, information about the Library, and listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for January -June 1990, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994- 95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000.

Notices for Summer Lecture Series:

• 14 May - 9 July 1996 - 'Islamic Culture and the European Traditions' held at the Wellcome Institute Auditorium.
• 22 April - 10 June 1997 - 'Empire and Identity: Ruler and Realm in Early Asia', held at the Wellcome Institute Auditorium.
• 21 April - 9 June 1998 - 'Archaeology and the nation in Asia: Issues of Power and Identity' held with the Institute of Archaeology, University of London.

Change of Lecture, Date or Venue Notices:

• 14 March 1991: Shelagh Vainker, 'Early Chinese Textiles in the British Museum'.
• 13 June 1991: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'The Indian Travels of William Hodges'.
• 10 June 1993: Doreen Ingrams, 'Journeys in the Hadhramaut in the 1930s and 1940s', Burton Memorial lecture.
• 9 December 1993: Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, 'The Gold of Sofala: from East Africa to India and China'.
• 20 April 1994: F. Nigel Hepper and Professor Ib Friis introduce a film about the Niebuhr Expedition to Egypt and the Yemen 1761-1767 with an account of the plants collected by Forsskal.

Publicity material:

• 12 January 1999: invitation card to Tarik Kafala, 'Slides of Makkah & Madinah 1998'.

Correspondence and administrative documents connected with lectures:

• Correspondence with Dr Martina Deuchler, 1 item, dated 22 May 1990.
• Correspondence with Jamie James, 1 item, dated 5 September 1990.
• Correspondence with John Hansman, 1 item, dated 21 February 1991.
• Administrative documents and news cuttings concerning the memorial lecture in memory of W.B. Henning, 9 May 1991, 4 items, dated 7-9 May 1991.
• Correspondence with Giles Tillotson, 1 item, dated 2 June 1991.
• Correspondence with N.F. Howard, 1 items, dated 18 December 1991.
• Correspondence with Dr S.N. Lieu, 1 item, dated 25 February 1992.
• Correspondence with Beth McKillop, 1 item, dated 22 February 1993.
• Correspondence with Dr M.J. Morris, 1 item, dated 5 December 1993.
• Correspondence with Lilla Russell-Smith, 1 item, dated 15 November 1994.
• Correspondence with J.P. Losty, 1 item, dated 29 September 1995.
• Correspondence with Dr James Dickie, 1 item, dated 5 January 1996.
• Correspondence with Hongxing Zhang, 1 item, dated 21 January 1996.
• Correspondence with Professor G.M. Bongard-Levin, 1 item, dated 21 February 1997.
• Correspondence with Professor Claudes Jacques, 2 items, dated 23 July 1997 - 4 March 1999.
• Correspondence with Professor Christopher Shackle, 2 items, dated 19-26 August 1997.
• Correspondence with Dr Elizabeth Moore, 2 items, dated 26-28 August 1997.
• Correspondence with Raymond Head, 1 item, dated 27 August 1997.
• Correspondence with Dr Vesta Curtis, 2 items, dated 1 -2 September 1997.
• Correspondence with Peter R.E. Willey, 4 items, dated 6 November 1997 - 26 February 1998.
• Correspondence with John Leach, 2 items, dated, 27 November - 17 December 1997.
• Correspondence with Professor G. Rex Smith, 3 items, dated 27 January - 29 September 1998.
• Correspondence with Mushirul Hasan, 2 items, dated 29 January - 11 March 1998.
• Correspondence concerning a letter by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, 3 items, dated 13-24 February 1998.
• Correspondence with Professor Michael Rogers, 2 items, dated 1 May - 26 June 1998.
• Correspondence with Simon Digby, 3 items, dated 23 May - 29 September 1998.
• Correspondence with Julian Sherrier, 2 items, dated 11 June - 13 July 1998.
• Correspondence with Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, 2 items, dated 18 June - 22 September 1998.
• Correspondence with Dr R.K. de Silva, 1 item, dated 19 June 1998.
• Correspondence with Dr A. Walls, 1 item, dated 13 July 1998.
• Correspondence with Dr C. William Radice, 2 items, dated 4 - 8 September 1998.
• Correspondence with Professor Robert B. Betts, 1 item, dated 24 September 1998 and a map of the Syrian area needed for his lecture of 8 April 1999.
• Correspondence concerning the possibility of the Society hosting a book launch for William Dalrymple's 'The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India', 2 items, dated 7 - 16 October 1998.
• Correspondence with Farrokh Vajifdar, 3 items, dated 15 -19 April 1999.

There is also a set of correspondence specifically about the Summer Lecture Series of 1998, These include correspondence with Fenella Goddard, Romila Thapar, Claudes Jacques, Karl Phillips, Philip Scott, Keith Whitlam, David Hawkins, and Maurizio Tozzi, 35 items, dated 9 July 1997 - 5 May 1998.

Lecture cards, Publicity posters, photographs and administrative documents for lectures held between 2000 and 2010. This included material for the main lecture series, as well as the Student Series which ran concurrently from 2006 forward.