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

Signed note to state that the Committee had unanimously agreed to confer the Burton Memorial Medal on Mr Bertram S. Thomas. Signed by D.S. Margoliouth, N.M. Penzer and Hamilton Gibb.

Letters concerning the conferment of the Medal on Bertram Thomas.

Correspondence concerning the inauguration of the Burton Memorial Fund and the production of the medal.

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 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.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which Penzer writes he will be discussing the wording of the Committee's appeal for funds with Sir Percy Sykes (Vice-Chairman of the Committee). He writes that 15000 copies of the appeal leaflet will be printed. He encloses the latest Committee List and he requests for circulars to be distributed to dons and antiquaries at Oxford.

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.

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.