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"The First Meeting of the Committee of the Richard Burton Memorial Lecture Fund". Agenda for the meeting to be held in 14 June, 1921, at the Royal Asiatic Society Rooms, and a List of the Committee Members.

A small account book of The National Provincial and Union Bank of England Limited, Oxford Branch, bearing the names and money given by donors to the Burton Memorial Fund spanning from 6 June 1921 - 6 October 1923. Bound notebook with white cover on which has been written in ink, The Burton Memorial Fund.

Letter from W.R. Livingstone, Montego Bay, Jamaica, to send a contribution to the Fund. Livingstone mentions that he has seen where Burton lived at Trieste, and served as missionary in the Bombay Diocese which Burton had visited. "Imagination has taken me to Mecca, whither pluck and skill carried him 32 years ago." He signs his letter "Hadgi W.R. Livingstone". He also includes a printed satirical poem "Farewell to Sir Leslie Probyn" about an unpopular British Governor of Jamaica at the time.

Invoice from Barnard and Crannis, Ltd., for postage of a parcel of 100 leaflets to Newport.

Letter from Mr Edward Likeman, Hon. Secretary of the Reading Literary and Scientific Society, to invite Campbell-Thompson, or another member of the Royal Asiatic Society, to lecture at the RLSS on the subject of Richard Burton.

Letter from Lord Chalmers to Norman Mosley Penzer to enclose a contribution of two guineas towards the Fund.

Letter from T.L. Wilson & Co., Solicitors, to Miss Sykes, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which he advises the preparation of a simple declaration of trust for the fund. He offers to submit a draft deed for approval.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Miss Sykes to inform her that at a special committee meeting of the Burton Memorial Fund on 10th January it was resolved that after the die for the triennial medal had been purchased, then the Memorial fund balance and responsibility for the Medal is to be handed over to the Royal Asiatic Society.

Four items of published material relating to the inauguration of the Burton Memorial Medal.

"Burton Memorial Fund" - a printed pamphlet to advertise the Burton Memorial Fund and ask for subscriptions. The front cover bears a portrait of Burton from the Royal Geographical Society Collections.