Correspondence and notes regarding the possibility of leasing 74 Grosvenor Street. The correspondence is mainly between the Royal Asiatic Society, their solicitors T.L. Wilson & Co, concerning the negotiations with Westminster Estate's solicitors, Messrs Boodle & Co.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, EnglandLearned Societies
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- Letters to "Overseas Members and Friends of the Royal Asaitic Society, Korea Branch" for 15 January 1971, and 1 October 1971.
- "Quarterly Newsletter for RAS Overseas members" for 20 April 1973 and 15 February 1982.
- "Newsletter of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society" for 10 August 1984, 31 March 1985, 30 May 1986, 15 October 1989, 25 February 1990, 20 February 1992, 20 May 1992, 15 May 1993, 20 July 1993, April 1994, August 1994.
- "Newsletter of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch" for December 1994, 20 March 1995, July 1995, October 1995, February 1996. April 1996, August 1996, October 1996, January 1997.
- "Quarterly Newsletter of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch" for April 1997, July 1997, October 1997, January 1998, April 1998, July 1998, October 1998.
- "Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, Overseas Newsletter" for Fall 2001, Summer 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003.
Two newspaper articles concerning the Asiatic Society. These are:
"Police raid Asiatic Society premises" concerning a police raid in connection with some stolen gold coins. From the Indian Express, New Delhi, 22 August 1996.
"Fallen Angels: Original paintings in the Asiatic Society rot for lack of space and funds" concerning the reportedly poor condition of some of the Society's Collections. From www.travel-india.com/new/1998/fallenangels.htm (no longer available on the internet)
Newspaper cuttings from The Times, 19 February 1973, The Times, 20 February 1973, The Daily Telegraph 20 February 1973, and Mayfair News, 2 March 1973, and unknown paper, all reporting on the Queen's visit to the Royal Asiatic Society's Sesquicentenary Reception.
Newspaper cuttings:
- "The indefatigable in pursuit of the indecipherable" from The Times, 22 July 1973.
- "Receptions: Foreign and Commonwealth Office" from Daily Telegraph, 26 July 1973.
- "Receptions: Foreign and Commonwealth Office" from The Times, 1973.
- "Song of the sirens not beyond all conjecture" from The Times, 28 July 1973.
Correspondence concerning, and drafts of papers read at, General Meetings. Lists of lecture dates for 1865 and 1868.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandNote from Michael W.F. Tweedie to accept the invitation from the President and Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to the Society's 160th Anniversary Celebration on 10 March 1983.
Tweedie Michael Willmer Forbes 1907-1993'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.
Holt Henry FNotice of Annual Exhibition at University College, London, by British School of Archaeology in Egypt. The exhibition, "Antiquities from Qau, Upper Egypt", will run from 2-28 July 1923, with the Secretary, Hilda Flinders Petrie, in attendance daily from 11-1.
British School of Archaeology in EgyptNotice from S.K. Saraswati, General Secretary, The Asiatic Society, to inform that by Order of the Council, at its meeting on 21 July 1958 it was decided to combine the two series of the journal into one to be named the Journal of the Asiatic Society.
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