File RAS TGM/25/1/2 - Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Professor Beckingham

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GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/25-RAS TGM/25/1-RAS TGM/25/1/2

Title

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Professor Beckingham

Date(s)

  • 1968 (Creation)

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Name of creator

(1895-1971)

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 Professor Beckingham to express his gratitude at the conferment of the Medal and to ask that it be presented to him in Oxford as he is no longer able to travel. Typed letter, undated. With this is a handwritten speech inread more

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Language of material

  • English