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Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Professor Beckingham to express his gratitude at the conferment of the Medal and to ask that it be presented to him in Oxford as he is no longer able to travel. Typed letter, undated. With this is a handwritten speech in which Gibb writes of his gratitude and his work in Arabic studies.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb, Acting Assistant Secretary, International Union of Orientalists, to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that it has been proposed to hold a General Assembly of the Union at Paris in September 1953. He provides an agenda and asks that a representative be delegated.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to send his suggestions for the titles for the Prize Essay Competition and also to send a draft letter to Monsieur Bacot of the Société Asiatique concerning the draft Statutes of the proposed International Union of Orientalists. He asks if the Royal Asiatic Society has received a copy of the draft Statutes. With his letter is that to Monsieur Bacot, also dated 28 July 1951.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that it would be improper for him to be the Royal Asiatic Society's representative as he is one of the representatives of the International Congress. However, in the nebulous situation concerning the International Union, he would agree to undertake the role.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that due to lack of a subvention by UNESCO towards the cost of a General Assembly of the Union, it has been decided to postpone the meeting.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Mrs Davis, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to suggest that she writes to Professor Bosch-Gimpera of UNESCO to obtain a draft of the Statutes.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to agree to serve on the Selection Committee.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Committee recommend Major J.B. Glubb to receive the Burton Medal. With this letter is the official recommendation signed by all the Committee Members. Both the letter and the recommendation are annotated in Hoysted's hand to state that the Council accepted the nomination and a letter had been sent to Major Glubb.

Letter from Hal Roth, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University, to Angus Graham to inform him that their panel, "The Nature of Huang-Lao and its Influence on the Early Han Dynasty" had been accepted for the forthcoming annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in New Orleans from 11-14 April 1991. He asks that Graham registers and advises when he will need Graham's paper. With the letter is:
A list of participants in the panel, dated 28 September 1990 Organised panel proposal Abstracts for "What is Huang-lao?" by Harold D. Roth, "Warfare Taoist Style: How Military Traditions flow into the Huai-Nan Tzu" by Kidder Smith, and "A Confucian with a Taoist face?: The Huang-Lao Chapters of the Ch'un Ch'ui Fan Lu" by Sarah A. Queen.

Letter from Hal Roth, Brown University, to Angus Graham to relate that he has settled in and is teaching Indian Buddhism but he is missing his colleagues in London. He writes about the possibility of Graham going to Brown and asks for an up-to-date CV. He would also inform Harvard and Yale if Graham was to come. He recommends the restaurants in Providence.