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Copy of a letter from Dow & Lester Ltd. to W. Lewis, University Press, concerning some books which had been sent to them from Percy Lund Humphries & Co, labelled "Persian poems". They will send a few sheets of the books to ascertain if these are the books about which the University Press is enquiring.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to enclose a letter from C. Lester of Dow & Lester Limited. This letter is addressed to W.L. Raynes to arrange a meeting with Raynes and to inform that the company are folding and collating the Trust's work and hope to provide a full report shortly. He also informs that they have not heard from Messrs. Brill.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to inform Storey that Dow & Lester have found the missing brasses and to inform him that the accounts are ready to be audited. With this letter is one from G.R. Davis, Dow & Lester Ltd., to W.L. & E.G. Raynes to state that the blocks had been returned by Carter Paterson. The blocks are OK and will be despatched to Raynes.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to enclose a letter from C. Lester of Dow & Lester Limited and to arrange a meeting of the three resident trustees to talk over the question of housing the stock. This letter from Charles Lester is addressed to W.L. Raynes to inform Raynes that due to a disagreement the company Dow & Lester has dissolved but he is now employed with Nevett Ltd., Colindale, and hopes to continue to give the Trust the same service.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to enclose a copy of a letter received from Dow & Lester from which it appears they still have some stock and brasses. With this letter is a copy of the letter from Dow & Lester Ltd. to Messrs Gibb Memorial Trust to state they have still some odd parcels to send but were keeping them in case others were found. They also have a number of blocks but cannot identify which are theirs and which are Luzac's property. They will send [pulls] of the blocks to Luzac for them to identify and will then return those belonging to the Gibb Memorial Trust.

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.