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Reference code
GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/4-RAS BMM/4/1-RAS BMM/4/1/9
Title
Letter from Colonel Hoysted to Bertram S. Thomas, 23/02/1931
Date(s)
- 23rd Feb 1931 (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 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… read more
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Language of material
- English