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Letter from Professor D.S. Margoliouth to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which he agrees to the amendments of Thomas' lecture, and ask that it be sent on to printers.

Letter form John Pinches to the Royal Asiatic Society to state that they possess the dies for the Medal and can proceed with making it once instructed.

Letter from John Pinches to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to confirm the cost of the Medal.

Letter from John Pinches to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to state that the engraving of the medal was being undertaken and he would hope to deliver it at the end of next week.

The series consists of administrative documents, correspondence, printed lecture card and newspaper cuttings concerned with the awarding of the Burton Memorial Medal to Freya Stark. There are also some printed materials concerned with her death.

Three notes in the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Colonel Hoysted's hand. These are:

• Note on 1934 selection committee appointed by the Council.
• Note on Council Meeting of 12 April 1934 when no suggestions were given for a suitable recipient to be awarded the medal.
• Note to state that at the meeting of 14 June 1934 the name of Miss Freya Stark was recommended by the Committee.

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.

Invitation Card to admit two people to the Burton Memorial Lecture by Miss Freya Stark, the lecture being entitled "Luristan".

Seventeen Newspaper cuttings announcing the presentation of the Burton Memorial Medal to Miss Freya Stark from the following Newspapers:

• Evening News - 25/07/1934
• Glasgow Evening Times - 25/07/1934
• The Morning Post - 26/07/1934
• Manchester Guardian - 26/07/1934
• Glasgow Herald - 26/07/1934
• The Scotsman - 26/07/1934
• The Glasgow Evening News - 26/07/1934
• The Sunderland Echo - 26/07/1934
• Nottingham Evening Post - 26/07/1934
• Daily Mirror - 26/07/1934
• Daily Sketch - 26/07/1934
• Morning Post - 26/07/1934
• The Times - 26/07/1934
• Aberdeen Press & Journal - 27/07/1934
• Newcastle Evening Chronicle - 27/07/1934
• Near East - 02/08/1934
• Standard, Nairobi - 25/08/1934

Newspaper cutting with the article, Telegrams in Brief outlining that Freya Stark, who had been taken ill in Hadramaut had been brought by aeroplane to Aden. Her condition was stated as not serious. From the The Times newspaper.