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"The First Meeting of the Committee of the Richard Burton Memorial Lecture Fund". Agenda for the meeting to be held in 14 June, 1921, at the Royal Asiatic Society Rooms, and a List of the Committee Members.

Deed of Foundation of the Burton Memorial Fund. There are two draft copies and a page of extracts from the deed. All typed, drafts dated 1922, each 3 pages plus single typed sheet of extracts.

Two notes of expenditure for the Burton Memorial Fund, one titled, "Account up to June 14th 1921", signed by N.M. Penzer, and the other titled, "Continuation of Account up to July 16th".

A small account book of The National Provincial and Union Bank of England Limited, Oxford Branch, bearing the names and money given by donors to the Burton Memorial Fund spanning from 6 June 1921 - 6 October 1923. Bound notebook with white cover on which has been written in ink, The Burton Memorial Fund.

List of the private expenses of Reginald Campbell-Thompson for work related to the Burton Memorial Fund.

Correspondence concerning the inauguration of the Burton Memorial Fund and the production of the medal.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in Oxford. Typed invitation to meet for lunch, Campbell-Thompson having consented to act as ex-officio member of the R.A.S Council on Penzer's committee for the Burton Memorial Fund.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which he seeks an "anthropologist or folklore student". He inquires after the Burton relics at the Pitt Rivers Musuem, Oxford and proposes names for Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Sec. and Chairman of the Memorial Fund Committee.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which Penzer thanks Campbell-Thompson for agreeing to the position of Honorary Treasurer. He further discusses the potential composition of the committee. Penzer emphasises that names that are well known to the public are essential to the committee for raising funds. He argues that the committee should be as big as possible and should "appeal to the natural snobbishness of the English race, and sprinkle titles about freely, but, secondly, have names that everybody knows...it is of the utmost important to get a man like [Rudyard] Kipling". He gives an invitation to lunch the following week and writes that he seeks another woman to sit on the committee, potentially the English travel writer and explorer Rosita Forbes. Penzer suggests the name Rider Haggard (adventure novelist) might also appeal to the public.

Letter from Norman Mosley Penzer to Reginald Campbell-Thompson in which Penzer asks Campbell-Thompson to approach T.E. Lawrence to sit on the committee. Penzer suspects Lawrence will remember him from a previous meeting. Rider Haggard will be removed from the draft committee list as he is "too busy to join". Penzer mentions that he wrote to Rudyard Kipling but received nothing in reply. An initial committee list is with the letter.