'Notes on the Chinese Game of Chess' by H.F.W. Holt, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society New Series, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1885), pp. 352-365. Holt was the Acting Interpreter, Agent and Assistant at the Ningpo Consulate in 1864.

Lists of missing issues of the Journal from 1834-1945 within a bound volume. The lists seem to date from 1931 to 1953.

Correspondence concerned with missing and faulty offprints. These are:

• A letter from the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Stephen Austin and Son Ltd. concerned that Dr Emmerick had only received 25 offprints of his article. The Secretary was also concerned that Mr. Hansman's offprints had been delayed in their posting despite the stressed urgency. Dated 5 December 1969.
• Letter from John Hansman to Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd., concerning the quality of the binding of his offprints and finger markings on pages preceding his plates, alongside the delay in the provision of the offprints which caused him to lose some funding for an excavation. Dated 3 December 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to John Hansman to reply to his letter defending the company's production of the offprints and suggesting ameliorative measures, dated 9 January 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to Miss Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the letter the company had received from John Hansman and suggesting the Society might be called upon to arbitrate, dated 9 January 1970.
• Draft letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. concerning the offprints. She points out not only were they defective but also significantly delayed. She suggests an apology would be in order to Hansman and also points out the delay in receiving other offprints requested by the Society. Dated 19 January 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, in which he states he has received a further letter from John Hansman but doesn't know how to proceed other than a further apology. There may be a chance of a reprint if the type is still available. Dated 22 January 1970.
• Letter from Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose a letter to John Hansman and to inform of the action they are undertaking. He also apologise for not attending to Miss Crawford's other queries and assures her that the delayed copies will be sent that day. Dated 28 January 1970. The letter is enclosed in which he states that they will be able to reprint his offprints after they have printed the current edition of the Journal. Also dated 28 January 1970.
• Letter from Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Miles Bullivant, Sales Director, Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. to thank for his letter and inform that she has received the delayed offprints, dated 30 January 1970.

The Journal Editorial Board was constituted in 2019, since when biannual meetings have occurred. These are the Minutes for the Meetings. Much of the decision-making about the administration of the Journal has historically been undertaken by the Publications Committee of the Society. The Minutes for the committee have also been catalogued.

This series covers the following meetings:

• 14 March 2019
• 31 October 2019
• 5 November 2020
• 22 April 2021
• 28 October 2021
• 7 April 2022
• 13 April 2023
• 5 October 2023
• 11 April 2024
• 10 October 2024
• 10 April 2025
• 9 October 2025 (wanting)

Also included is the minute of the Nomination Committee for the Associate Editorship Positions at the JRAS for 25 June 2020.

Agreement made by the Royal Asiatic Society with Micro Methods Limited for the Micro Reproduction of Journals and publications issued before the date of the agreement. It is dated 6 January 1959 and signed by M.A. Brampton for Micro Methods and Richard Winstedt, Director, and M. Davis, Secretary, for the Royal Asiatic Society. With the agreement is a document entitled 'Heads of Assessment suggested for the Royal Asiatic Society' which is dated 9 September 1965.

'MSS Memoir on the Length of the Illahae Guz' by Colonel John Hodgson. This includes a letter pasted into the manuscript from Hodgson to Richard Clarke concerning the manuscript, dated 21 August 1841, and also a postscript written within the volume by Henry Newnham, dated 22 May 1824. The article appeared in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society XIII (1843), pp. 42-63.

Memo of out of pocket costs and disbursements in the course of business between W.H. Allen & Co, and the Royal Asiatic Society, undated.

Minutes of Meetings held between Royal Asiatic Society and Cambridge University Press to discuss matters of Journal production for 12 July 1990, 14 July 2003, 15 December 2006, 22 May 2008, May 2008, 1 December 2008, 27 November 2009, 16 April 2013, 6 May 2015, 27 April 2016, 20 April 2017 and 12 April 2018.

Material concerning the transliteration of scripts for use in the Journal. In early 1920s, an enquiry regarding the discrepancies in the system of transliteration published in the Journal prompted the Council's decision to form a committee looking into the matter. During the 1930s there was further concern regarding the printing of non-Latin alphabet scripts. The material includes:

• Printed report of the Committee on Transliteration appointed by the Council on 17 January 1922, submitted by the Committee chair Sir George A. Grierson and members Dr T. Grahame Bailey, A. G. Ellis and Dr M. Gaster. The report recommends some optional signs as substitutes of the Geneva transliteration for Sanskrit, Arabic and Hindu scripts. 2 copies.
• Correspondence concerning the transliteration of Tibetan. The main correspondents are F.W. Thomas, H.W. Bailey, D.S. Margoliouth and Colonel Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society. 16 pieces, dated 20 October 1937 - 31 October 1938.
• Correspondence concerning the transliteration of Chinese and Japanese script. The main correspondents are W. Perceval Yetts, S. Yoshutake, Sir Harold Parlett and Colonel Hoysted. 16 pieces, dated 26 July 1938- 1 December 1938.
• Correspondence and administrative documents concerning transliteration of all scripts. The main correspondents are the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft, W. Perceval Yetts and Colonel Hoysted. 11 items, dated 11 January 1939 - 10 November 1939.

Printed material relating to Journal sale, including:

• Booklet giving a list of pamphlets (separate copies of articles published in the Society's Journal) for sale, 1903
• "The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: List of Offprints from the Journal of the Society, Distributed by Fine Books Oriental Ltd" - a catalogue of available offprints with prices. Soft bound pamphlet.
• Advertising letter for the back issues of the Journal and New Publication of the Society, 1986. Typed sheet.
• "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: List of Articles and Sale of Surplus Back Issues", typed pamphlet listing those available, 1992.
• "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Back Issues" - a typed sheet to advertise back issues for 1979-1990, at 1 issue (2 parts) for £28.00, undated.