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Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which Penzer asks Campbell-Thompson to approach T.E. Lawrence to sit on the committee. Penzer suspects Lawrence will remember him from a previous meeting. Rider Haggard will be removed from the draft committee list as he is "too busy to join". Penzer mentions that he wrote to Rudyard Kipling but received nothing in reply. An initial committee list is with the letter.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which he details shortening of the name to "The Burton Memorial Fund" as agreed by the Committee. he writes that leaflets for the Fund Appeal will be enclosed in July's Geographical Society Journal and the Geographical Society agree to guarantee "about £20" to fund the printing of promotional materials.

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 (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 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 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 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 he recounts that the second committee meeting went well. Penzer is out of a job and therefore asks for his expenses. Penzer's book is progressing slowly and should be out before Christmas. There is an annotation by Campbell-Thompson to record he sent Penzer a pound by cheque on October 12th 1922.

Letter from Nigel Phillips to Arthur W. Bruce Ltd. to send two cheques from Mr. D.A. & Mrs. S. Smyth and Dr. N.G. & Mrs. E.H. Phillips as a donation to the Lady Nuffield Home, totalling £35.

A letter expresses his great sympathy on hearing of Stuarts death. 'I shall miss him a great deal, and so will many others who knew him at SOAS'.