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GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/7-RAS BMM/7/2-RAS BMM/7/2/6
Title
Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, 24/12/1939
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- 24th Dec 1939 (Creation)
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1 piece handwritten
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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 agree to serve on the Selection Committee.
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Language of material
- English