Correspondence with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India, regarding the obtaining of articles from past copies of the Journal for the Library, dated 24 August 1979-13 December 1979. With the correspondence is a list of articles annotated to mark which articles are required by the Library. The Society was not able to conform to the whole request but sent offprints of some articles and suggested the Library obtain a microfiche of the Journals from the Inter Documentation Company.

Correspondence with Han-Shan Tang Ltd. regarding the possibility of purchasing or becoming an agent for the sale of the Society's offprints. There are eight letters negotiating the terms of the agreement, the sale of current offprints, and subsequently the return of the offprints when Han-Shan Tang Ltd. failed to keep to the terms of the contract.

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.

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.

Correspondence with the solicitors concerning reprinting agreements, including:

• Letters between the RAS and T. L. Wilson & Co. regarding a draft agreement with Johnson Reprinting Co. [not with the letters]. Three letters, dated 21 December 1964-14 January 1965.

• Letter from T. L. Wilson & Co. regarding a draft agreement with Messrs. Kraus Reprint Limited [not with the letter], dated 31 October 1966.

• Letters from RAS Secretary to Messrs. Wilson Freeman concerning the termination of the agreements with Luzac & Company Ltd. and Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York. There is a photocopy of an agreement signed between the Society and Johnson Reprint Corporation for reprinting early issues and volumes of the Journal, dated November 1959. Two letters, dated 27 February-31 October 1975, and three photocopies.

Correspondence between the Society and Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, regarding granting the Corporation the exclusive rights to reprint unavailable early issues and volumes of JRAS. The agreement was later extended to cover publications of the Oriental Translation Fund series, as well as the warehousing and selling of JRAS and publications of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, and continued until the winding up of the Corporation in 1993 when all reprint rights were relinquished. Mixed with the correspondence are agreements signed in 1959, 1964 and 1966.