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Letter from Abraham Poliak to the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society informing her of the difficulties he has faced with writing additional notes on the manuscript.

Letter from the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, thanking Abraham Poliak for his notes and expressing interest in his monograph on the ideology of the Crusades.

Letter from the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Diana Crawford, informing Professor Poliak that alterations to his Feudalism in Egypt publication can not be made without a complete reprint. Also the Prize Publication Fund does not have the relevant funds to carry this out.

Please note that Professor Poliak died in 1970, indicating that the Society had not been made aware of his death.

Letter sent by Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to the Literary Executors of Abraham Poliak, following the Society hearing about Professor Poliak's death. The letter asks the executors whether they would like to receive the notebooks of alterations Professor Poliak made on 'Feudalism in Egypt' prior to his death.

It is unknown whether the executors responded to this letter as the notebooks still in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Three notebooks of handwritten alterations for the publication, Feudalism in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the Lebanon 1250-1900.

It appears that Professor Poliak re-wrote the entire publication before making adjustments in pencil.

Part one of Abraham Poliak's alterations of Feudalism in Egypt.

Part two of Abraham Poliak's alterations of Feudalism in Egypt.

Part three of Abraham Poliak's alterations of Feudalism in Egypt.

This collection contains correspondence between Abraham Poliak and the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society (Diana Crawford), concerning the proposed reprint of Poliak's publication, Feudalism in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and the Lebanon 1250-1900. This was originally published in 1939 funded by the Society's Prize Publication Fund.

Due to Poliak's death in 1970, the proposed reprint never came to fruition, The collection also contains three notebooks of draft amendments made by Poliak.

Correspondence between Abraham Poliak and the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Diana Crawford, concerning the proposed reprint of Poliak's publication, Feudalism in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the Lebanon 1250-1900 which had been published through the Society's Prize Publication Fund. There is also a small amount of correspondence from a Library in Lebanon who are requesting further copies of the original publication.