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Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Freya Stark to express his thanks for her letter and that the Society would be glad to welcome her to London in the Autumn.

This sub-series contains a printed invitation card for the Burton Memorial Lecture; several newspaper cuttings concerning the bestowal of the Award on Freya Stark; and a further cutting concerning her illness in 1935. There are also two obituaries and the programme for the Service of Thanksgiving for her life.

There is a single file in this sub-series - a document entitled "Royal Asiatic Society: The Burton Memorial Medal and Lecture" which gives details of the Burton Memorial Trust and its former recipients.

Correspondence concerning the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal upon Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson.

Letter from Lord Hailey to Royal Asiatic Society to write that he will be unable to be at the lecture as he must be in Geneva for a meeting of the Permanent Mandate Commission.

Letter from Bertram Thomas to Mrs Davis, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that he would be delighted to present the Burton Memorial Medal.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted to John Pinches to give the wording for the Burton Memorial Medal.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Professor D.S. Margoliouth in which he expresses regret over the Professor's poor health,before continuing to ask him for suggestions for people for the Burton Memorial Committee.

Draft Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Committee Nominees, Norman Penzer, Hamilton Gibb and Leonard Woolley, to ask if they would be willing to serve on the Committee. Undated.

Letter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to A.J.A. Symons to give details of the Burton Memorial Lecture and for what reasons the Medal is given.