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GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/16-RAS BMM/16/1-RAS BMM/16/1/2 · File · 18th Mar 1981
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Richard Burton Memorial Medal

Letter from Professor R.B. Serjeant to Miss E.V. Gibson, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to accept the honour of the award of the Medal and to write that he will need to confirm the lecture date after checking his travel plans. He also asks about the nature of the lecture he will have to deliver.

Serjeant Robert Bertram 1915-1993
GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/15-RAS TGM/15/2-RAS TGM/15/2/1 · File · 12th Mar 1938
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal

Letter from Professor R.A. Nicholson to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to thank him for the letter informing him that he was the chosen recipient of the Gold Medal. Handwritten with printed letterhead, dated 12 March 1938.

Nicholson Reynold Alleyne 1868-1945 Arabic scholar
GB 891 RAS CEN-RAS CEN/4-RAS CEN/4/2 · File · 10th Nov 1923
Part of Royal Asiatic Society: Centenary

Letter from Professor Margoliouth to Ella Sykes, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that they will not be using much Oriental type and therefore the Committee's decision is to proceed. Authors should be consulted concerning the number of deprints they require.

Margoliouth D.S. 1858-1940
GB 891 RAS CEN-RAS CEN/4-RAS CEN/4/11 · File · 1st Dec 1924
Part of Royal Asiatic Society: Centenary

Letter from Professor Margoliouth to Ella Sykes, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose Austin's bill for the Centenary Volume which exceeds all estimates by at least a third. He hopes some of the deficit can be recovered from authors and from sales but accepts that he must bear the bulk of the loss personally and therefore offers to pay £75 in two moieties.

Margoliouth D.S. 1858-1940
GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/192 · File · 24th Mar 1884
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

Letter from Professor John Robert Seeley to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for sending his volume of papers on India. He writes in agreement with Hodgson's views on education and compares this with the problem of getting Cambridge to accept a Tripos in modern European languages. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 24 March 1884, with accompanying envelope.

Seeley John Robert 1834-1895 Essayist, historian