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Correspondence concerned with the governance of the Trust and the trustees.

The Papers of Charles Ambrose Storey are mainly concerned with gathering material for his research into Persian Literature. They include his own notes and draft publications and additional notes by people who subsequently worked with his research.

The Gibb Memorial Trust was established in 1902 in memory of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, a largely self-taught Arabic, Persian, and, above all, of Ottoman Turkish, died age 45 in 1901 and his mother established the Trust. These papers mainly cover the period 1927-1951 and consists of governance, finance and publication documents, produced mainly as a result of Charles Ambrose Storey's involvement as a Trustee of the Trust.

Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey Volume II was divided into 3 parts. Only the first of these was published within Storey's lifetime. After the Royal Asiatic Society received Storey's bequest it was decided to continue publishing his volumes. They employed Mrs Ann Walsh to undertake the work supervised by James Douglas Pearson (Part 2) and G.M. Meredith -Owens (Part 3). The parts were published:

• Vol. II, pt. 1. A. Mathematics. B. Weights and Measures. C. Astronomy and Astrology. D. Geography, London, 1958 [pp. 1-192]
• Vol. II, pt. 2. E. Medicine (prepared for publication by Ann Walsh and J. D. Pearson), London: Luzac and Co., 1971 [pp. 193-346]
• Vol. II, pt. 3. F. Encyclopaedias and Miscellanies; G. Arts and Crafts; H. Science; J. Occult Arts (prepared for publication by Ann Walsh, with the assistance of G. M. Meredith-Owens), Leiden: Brill, 1977 [pp. 347-499]

The archival material in this series is concerned with the preparation and publication of this volume.