Letters concerning the conferment of the Medal on Bertram Thomas.
Sans titreLetter from Norman Mosley Penzer in which Penzer accepts the invitation to serve on the committee of the Burton Memorial Medal.
Sans titreLetter from D.S. Margoliouth to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which he notifies Colonel Hoysted that N.M. Penzer and Mr Gibb have been invited to form the Burton Memorial Medal Committee for the 1931 award. He writes about inscriptions which have now been deciphered and also discusses whether a Dr Nielsen's paper might be unpublishable due to its polemic.
Sans titreLetters from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Hamilton A.R Gibb and Norman Mosley Penzer in which he sends an invitation to have a cup of tea before the Committee Meeting on February 3rd.
Sans titreLetter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to D.S. Margoliouth in which he gives an invitation to tea before or after the Committee Meeting on February 3rd. Further handwritten note to state that Mr Penzer had phoned to say he would be at the meeting.
Sans titreLetter from D.S. Margoliouth to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which he asks that the enclosed should be sent to the Committee before the meeting. With the letter is a list of potential recipients and some biographical material on Winifred Susan Blackman including a letter from her brother, Aylward M. Blackman recommending that she should be put forward for the Burton Memorial Award.
Sans titreSigned note to state that the Committee had unanimously agreed to confer the Burton Memorial Medal on Mr Bertram S. Thomas. Signed by D.S. Margoliouth, N.M. Penzer and Hamilton Gibb.
Sans titreLetter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Bertram S. Thomas in which he notifies Thomas of the award of the Burton Memorial Medal to him and invites him to deliver the Memorial Lecture.
Sans titreLetter from Bertram S. Thomas to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which Thomas accepts the invitation to deliver the Burton Memorial Lecture and to receive the medal. On the reverse is a note in Hoysted's hand to state that the lecture was postponed to 18th June as the first Thursday that Thomas was free and that the medal had been ordered.
Sans titreLetter from Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Bertram S. Thomas in which he sends the Society's congratulations on Thomas' successful crossing of the Great Desert of southern Arabia. He requests that the RAS might be the first to hear him speak on his journey.
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