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GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/7-RAS BMM/7/2-RAS BMM/7/2/17
Title
Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, 11/03/1940
Date(s)
- 11th Mar 1940 (Creation)
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2 pieces handwritten
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb was a Scottish historian on Orientalism, teaching first at the School of Oriental Studies, London, and subsequently at the University of Oxford before moving to Harvard University in 1955. He was a trustee of the Gibb Memorial Trust.
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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.… read more
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Language of material
- English