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GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/25-RAS TGM/25/1-RAS TGM/25/1/2
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Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Professor Beckingham
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- 1968 (Creation)
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(1895-1971)
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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 in which Gibb writes of his gratitude and his work in Arabic studies.
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- English