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Letter from Guy le Strange to C.A. Storey to inform Storey that due to increasing age and frailty, he has agreed with Nicholson that another trustee should act as signature of cheques. He wants to suggest that R. Levy, Lecturer in Persian, University of Cambridge, is appointed a Trustee. He is writing to all Trustees with this suggestion and asks Storey to give his opinion of the matter.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to ask him to consider the request of the Chairman that Dr A.J. Arberry be elected as an additional trustee due to the absence of Dr Levy from the Country and following the death of Sir Denison Ross. (See also GMT/3/2/2). He also asks for Storey to agree to the cost of printing and binding of Professor's Minorsky's "Safavid Administration".

Letter from R.A. Nicholson to C.A. Storey to give him the result of the proposals set before the Trustees. He also asks if Storey would be willing to be Trustee-in-charge of Minorsky's "Safavid Administration" as Nicholson does not expect to return to Cambridge. He sets out what duties it would entail. Nicholson mentions mutual friends and their plans and asks regarding Storey's health.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to inform of the death of Mr. A.G. Ellis. He has sent the sympathy of the Trustees to Ellis' nephew and informed Professor Nicholson.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to enclose a letter from Professor Nicholson explaining the situation regarding the manuscript bought by Arberry. He also encloses a cheque for Arberry to be reimbursed. With this letter is a copy of the letter from Nicholson to Raynes, in Storey's hand, in which he asks if the Gibb Memorial Volumes for Turkey had been forwarded to the Foreign Office and whether there had been any notification of their arrival. He also writes concerning the purchase by Dr Arberry of a Persian Manuscript, "Sanglatch" from Heffer. This had come to them via Sir Denison Ross's Library but Arberry had found it to belong to the Trust. Storey believes this an honest mistake from Heffer and asks that Arberry can be reimbursed for the purchase so it can be returned to the Trust.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to inform Storey that he has retrieved the copy Minute Book from the Administrator of Ellis' estate (see GMT/2/2/22). He also informs Storey that Ellis' library has not gone to the States. Ellis' nephew is asking for help in the valuation and the separation of manuscripts from books.

Letter from C.A. Storey to W.L. Raynes in reply to Raynes letter (GMT/1/3/6). He is glad the minute book has been retrieved. Storey does not know who could undertake the cataloguing of the 11000 books belonging to Ellis but suggests it is desirable to consult Nicholson. He writes of hearing of 6000 in the library of a British Arabist had been acquired by a library at Philadelphia but realising this was not the Ellis volumes.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to send a print of the Presentation List (not present). He also informs Storey that he has been to meet the Solicitor acting for Ellis' administrator who informed him that the manuscripts are mixed up with the volumes and therefore require sorting out. He had suggested a spot audit to the solicitor and explained what that would entail.

Letter from R.A. Nicholson to C.A. Storey in which he writes that he has heard from Raynes of the amount of devotion Storey has given to the affairs of the Trust especially when the stock was removed from Luton to Cambridge. When the trustees can meet again he is sure they will all wish to thank Storey. He also writes about his poor eyesight and his wife's poor health. He asks if Storey would accept from the Foreign Office, two volumes sent to Nicholson by Dr Qasim Gheni and inform Nicholson something of their contents, so he can write to thank the donor. He also writes about an article he has written, "A Persian forerunner of Dante" and that he is privately publishing 100 copies, one of which will go to Storey. It was originally for an Indian Festschrift being prepared by A.A. Fyzee, which didn't happen but the article was published in the Transactions of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society but he is unable to obtain offprints at this time. He has seen Arberry when he has been holidaying in the area and expects Arberry will be appointed successor in the Persian Chair at the University of London.

Newspaper cutting informing of the death of Ida Wilmot Eyre Gregory, widow of E.J.W. Gibb and A. Ogilvy Gregory, on 7 May 1944. The cremation will be held on 11 May, 1944. She was also a trustee of the Trust.