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↑ Up one levelLetter from Bebe Barwis-Holliday to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society
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GB 891 RAS BHA-RAS BHA/1-RAS BHA/1/1
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Handwritten letter and newspaper cutting.
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- 2 October 1974 (Creation)
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(7 September 1907 - 03 November 1983)
Biographical history
Major J.E. Barwis-Holliday was interested in the Far East. He was the British delegate at the eighth congress of the International Organisation for the Industrial, Scientific and Cultural Advancement in Japan. He owned properties in Sussex and Cumberland. He was a member to the Royal Asiatic Society from 1970 until his death in 1983 and served on the Society's Council. He endowed the Barwis-Holliday Award while he was alive with further money bequeathed on his death.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Letter from Bebe Barwis-Holliday, wife of J. Edward Barwis-Holliday to Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to send a newspaper cutting detailing Major Barwis-Holliday's trip to Japan as the British delegate to the OISCA conference in Japan, dated 2 October 1974. The cutting is with the letter.
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gb 891 ras bha/1/1
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