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A copy of Journal of the Victorian Military Society, Issue 177, Spring 2020, which includes an article on Major James Franklin (1783-1834) written by Richard Voss. Also kept together is a letter of donation from Voss enclosing the Journal, dated 3 July 2020.

Typed document containing a blurb of Martin Moir’s book ‘Not Exactly Shangri-La’, his biography, and a transcript of an interview of him discussing the book, November 2009.

‘Sir Richard Winstedt’, offprint from JRAS, October 1963, containing a biography and tributes to Richard Winstedt.

Typed article titled ‘Peter Collin and the RAS’ by Peter Collin, being a personal account of his connection with the Society, July 2020, including an introduction by him on the early members of the Society, written between 2017 and 2020. The introduction was later published online on the RAS website in ‘Founding Members of the Society Prosopography’.

News clipping of an article entitled ‘Asiatic v. Asian’, in which the writer writes that the old and time-honoured wording ‘Asiatic’ in the name of RAS should be changed to ‘Asian’. The article includes a photograph of Richard Winstedt, then President of the Society.

Typed biographical article on Miguel Asln Palacios, Professor of Arabic at the University of Madrid.

Handwritten biographical article on Professor Sten Konow.

Typed article on Mahammad Ali Mirza Kazym-bay and architect Mikail Useinov, two Azerbaijani members of RAS, written by Ilham Aliyev, President of the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan. There is also a typed biography of Useinov which is the same as his published obituary in the 1993 JRAS. Filed together are 6 B&W negatives showing landmark locations in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan, sent by the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan (with the original envelop).

Press cuttings relating to Sir Edward Denison Ross, including several articles on his receiving the Royal Asiatic Society Gold Medal in 1935, a caricature of him, an interview of him in the Evening News, titled 'Some Chinese to Read - And a Little Tibetan!' (9 April 1935) and two photographs of him.

This sub-series contains published obituaries, both in JRAS and the news, and other memorial material relating to members of the Society.