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Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Sir Edward Maclagan to ask whether he would consider whether the Medal should be pure silver or gilt.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to The High Commissioner for Palestine to inform him that the Burton Memorial Medal had been award to Major Glubb and to ask whether the High Commissioner would be willing to present the Medal to Glubb.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to the Press Association in which he requests that publicity be given in all principal newspapers of notice of the 1934 Award in lecture. There is also a further press notice concerning the celebration of Firdausi the Poet being held in London and the events taking place to commemorate his 1000th anniversary. This also mentions the forthcoming lecture by Freya Stark.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to the Press Association in which he announces the presentation of the Medal to Bertram Thomas and that Thomas has agreed to deliver the Memorial Lecture when he comes to England.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India to enclose information needed for the speech required by the Secretary of State at the Presentation of the Medal and to explain the order of proceedings. With the letter is a biography of Aurel Stein prepared by Professor F.W. Thomas. Typed, dated 10 June 1932.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to The Secretary and Editor, Institution of Royal Engineers, to send notification of the award of the Burton Memorial Medal to John Glubb for possible inclusion in the Royal Engineers' Journal.

Note from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to unnamed recipient to send an advance copy of the lecture and to ask for its transcript.

Letter from Colonel H.S. Osborne to William Huttman, RAS Secretary, to donate specimens of Malayalam writing, a model of a Chinese passage boat and Chinese material from Macao, found in 1822. Dated 28th February, 1828,(with further label dating at 1 March 1828), handwritten, 1 piece, 3 sides.

Letter from [Colvin] to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes that the article in the Edinburgh was written by Mr Myers, at Pekin. Colvin must attend a friend's funeral mass and that he will not be able to call on Hodgson on the following day. Handwritten with printed letterhead, 3 sides, dated by Hodgson (on envelope) 6 May 1873. Also accompanying envelope with Hodgson's annotations.

Letter from Crouzet, Membre associé de l'Institue national, en Proviseur du Prytanée Francais, to Thomas Manning thanking him for his message and informing Manning regarding Monsieur Thompson's visit to Crouzet. He sends his regards to Madame Latour [Faurensue] and for passing a message about her son. Dated 21 Brumaire an 13 (12 November 1804) Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides