Item CG/7 - Letter from Christopher Gimson to RAS Secretary, 12 July 1965

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GB 891 CG-CG/7

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Letter from Christopher Gimson to RAS Secretary, 12 July 1965

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  • 1965 (Creation)

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Handwritten, 1 piece

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Christopher Gimson
(1886-1975)

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Christopher Gimson joined the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and spent most of his career in Manipur, India, eventually becoming Political Agent there in 1933. He retired in 1947 and returned to Leicester, where he died in 1975. He was president of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 1955–56.

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Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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Letter from Christopher Gimson to RAS Secretary, asking his notes and comments on Jhalajit Singh’s book be returned.

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