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GB 891 RAS UPE-RAS UPE/6-RAS UPE/6/2-RAS UPE/6/2/2
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Letter from Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to John Bowman, 15 November 1937
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- 15th Nov 1937 (Creation)
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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of… read more
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Letter from Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to John Bowman to inform Bowman that he his essay had been of such high merit that he would be awarded a copy of "The Shah-nameh of Firdausi; the Book of the Persian Kings". Typed, 1 side, dated 15 November 1937.
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- English