Minutes of General and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and donations presented and include information on Honorary Members and Council Appointments. A partial index is at the front of the book.
Handwritten in folio-sized leatherbound book with recent binding.
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Minutes of General, Special, and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and donations presented, of Members nominated and elected, and changes within the Council.
Handwritten Minutes in folio-sized leatherbound book with recent binding.
Minutes of General, Special, and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and donations presented, of Members nominated and elected, and changes within the Council.
Handwritten Minutes in folio-sized leatherbound book with recent binding.
Correspondence from the London Auction Room Carriers Ltd regrading moving into 60 Queen's Gardens. These are:
- Quotation and covering letter for costs of removal, dated 24 September 1987.
- Letter to thank for cheque and acknowledge required changes, dated 14 October 1987.
Also two breakdowns of costs for removal.
London Auction Room Carriers LtdIn 2003 the Royal Asiatic Society undertook to rent rooms to the Society for South Asian Studies. This material includes correspondence between the two Societies, and with the acting Solicitors, Gregory Rowcliffe Milners; draft agreements and an inventory of the contents of the rooms to be rented.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandCorrespondence concerned with the repair of the glass roof dome. Application was made for funds from the Historic Buildings Council (refused), the Greater London Council and The Pilgrim Trust (accepted). The correspondence is with these organisations, and with the Building Surveyors, Morton-Smith & Co. There are also two large and sixteen small black and white photographs of the dome and 17 photographic negatives.
Historic Buildings Council for EnglandIn 1995, it was discovered that significant repairs were needed to the premises. These papers include correspondence predominantly between the Royal Asiatic Society and Giles Quarme, Chartered Architect, architectural plans for proposed changes, and reports concerning the work and its financial implications.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandReport from Rutley Son & Vine, Surveyors, to the Royal Asiatic Society to state the results of their inspection of recent repairs to 22 Albemarle Street, to give their opinion on whether the premises now comply with the conditions of the lease, to give their opinion on a building recently constructed near the premises, and to report on the Society's liability for works mentioned by Messrs. Asprey in a letter to Miss Hughes, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society.
Rutley Son & Vine SurveyorsReport on Bill for Centenary Supplement which details the estimates and agreements between Austins Printers and the Royal Asiatic Society, concluding that Austins had not overcharged for the work done. Signed W. Percival Yetts.
Yetts W. Perceval 1878-1957"Report on Visit to the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, M D McWilliam, Director, SOAS" - report covering an overview, background, current activity, and collaboration programme of the Asiatic Society, made after McWilliam's visit to the Society, 6 pages.
McWilliam M.D