Correspondence with David Loman Ltd. regarding the purchase of offprints of the Society's Journal. The company asked to initially buy 4000 at a cost of £1000 and then a further 26,500 over the succeeding year. His offer was turned down by the Society's Publications Committee.

Correspondence with Alden Press Ltd. regarding the production and sale of offprints of the Society's Journals. There are seven items of correspondence including two estimates from Alden Press.

Correspondence between the Royal Asiatic Society and Peter Collin, Director, Collier Macmillan Ltd., regarding the printing of a catalogue of the Society's offprints. These include correspondence from Gordon Calver and Valery Gibson for the Royal Asiatic Society, and various quotations for the cost of printing.

Correspondence between the Royal Asiatic Society and Fine Books Oriental concerning a catalogue for the offprints of the Society's Journal. The file contains both agreements and correspondence between the two parties as well as internal communication within the Royal Asiatic Society and administrative documents concerning preparation for a launch party for the catalogue. The correspondents include Valery Gibson and Gordon Calver for the Royal Asiatic Society and J.I. Somers for Fine Books Oriental. During this period Fine Books Oriental came under the Luzac's umbrella but continued to act independently.

The contract between the Royal Asiatic Society and Schmidt Periodicals GmbH for non-exclusive rights to reprint Series 1-3 of the Journal, dated 5 September 1984, and associated correspondence and Statements of Royalties covering the period from 1984 -2003. Correspondents include Valery Gibson, Gordon Claver and Dennis Duncanson for the Royal Asiatic Society and Gerhard Schmidt for Schmidt Periodicals.

There are four items:

• "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.

On acceptance of an article for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, authors sign an agreement which assigns copyright to the Society under various conditions laid out in the agreement. This series contains the signed agreements some physically, some electronically, arranged chronologically, from 1966 to current.

Correspondence concerned with seeking permission for articles originally published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society to be reprinted in other publications. There are seven examples of requests from individuals and institutions. On the converse, requests are made from Journal authors to other institutions for permission to use images within their article. There are three examples of these.

A small amount of 19th century correspondence concerned with the Journal remains. These are:

• 'Some remarks on reading Lt. Col. Colebrooke's papers relating to Ceylon' - a critique of a paper submitted by Lt. Col. Colebrooke, unknown author, undated.
• Correspondence from J.W. Bosanquet to Edwin Norris concerning a paper he is submitting, two letters, dated 29 October 1858 and 2 November 1858. Also a letter from H.H. Wilson to Edwin Norris to state there would be no objection to Bosanquet's paper being included, dated 27 [August 1859]. The article was published in the Journal in 1860.
• Correspondence from Brian Houghton Hodgson to Edwin Norris and J.W. Redhouse concerning the publication of papers he had sent. Four Handwritten letters dated 18 January 1861, 19 January 1861, 16 February 1861 and 19 February 1861. Hodgson first deems the material not worth printing, then reconsiders and offers and sends £10 towards the cost. There is a further letter from R. Spence Hardy considering that the material may well be of interest if it does not overlap that of Gutzlaff's printed in 'Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental Languages'. Handwritten, dated 20 May 1861. The article appeared in JRAS 18 (1861), "Notice on Buddhist Symbols" pp.393-399.
• Correspondence from J.E. Hall to J.W. Redhouse concerning a paper he is writing on an inscription and how ill-health has slowed the process. Two letters, dated 18 July [1863] and 17 August 1863. Letter from Henry Cope, Secretary of the Agri-Horticultural Society of the Punjab, requesting a copy of the paper written by Professor Medlicott to be translated into the local languages, dated 22 January 1863.
• Letter from Professor P. Petersen to Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot responding to criticism of his article by Mr Fleet, dated 14 October 1892.

The majority of administrative correspondence is only kept for its working life. This series contains representative samples of the types of administrative letters and those considered to be of archival value, dating from 1901 to the current day.