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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.

The material in this series consists of correspondence concerning the conferment of the Medal and some newspaper cuttings about Bertram Thomas.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which Penzer thanks Campbell-Thompson for agreeing to the position of Honorary Treasurer. He further discusses the potential composition of the committee. Penzer emphasises that names that are well known to the public are essential to the committee for raising funds. He argues that the committee should be as big as possible and should "appeal to the natural snobbishness of the English race, and sprinkle titles about freely, but, secondly, have names that everybody knows...it is of the utmost important to get a man like [Rudyard] Kipling". He gives an invitation to lunch the following week and writes that he seeks another woman to sit on the committee, potentially the English travel writer and explorer Rosita Forbes. Penzer suggests the name Rider Haggard (adventure novelist) might also appeal to the public.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson to send a draft copy of the appeal leaflet (not present) for Campbell-Thompson's comments. He also suggests that the appeal leaflet will be included in the next issue of the RAS journal.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which Penzer gives details of the accounts of the committee fund. He reflects on the weather in Brighton and Campbell-Thompson's trip to the Norfolk Broads.

Letters concerning the conferment of the Medal on Bertram Thomas.

Administrative documents, correspondence and printed materials pertaining to the foundation of the Richard Burton Memorial Fund and inauguration of the giving of the Burton Medal. There are also some examples of the Medal.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in Oxford. Typed invitation to meet for lunch, Campbell-Thompson having consented to act as ex-officio member of the R.A.S Council on Penzer's committee for the Burton Memorial Fund.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which he seeks an "anthropologist or folklore student". He inquires after the Burton relics at the Pitt Rivers Musuem, Oxford and proposes names for Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Sec. and Chairman of the Memorial Fund Committee.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson (with annotations by Campbell-Thompson). Penzer writes he is holidaying in Brighton. He gives details of the accounts and suggests they publicise the fund at Trinity College Oxford.