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Letter from Doreen Ingrams to Lydia Collins, 22/10/1992

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GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/17-RAS BMM/17/2-RAS BMM/17/2/7

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1 piece handwritten

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  • 22nd Oct 1992 (Creation)

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Name of creator

(1906-1997)

Biographical history

Doreen Ingrams, the daughter of Edward Shortt MP, married Harold Ingrams (See RAS BMM/8) in 1930. She gave up a stage career to travel with him to Mauritius where he was a colonial administrator. In 1934, they moved to Saudi Arabia, travelling with him on his explorations and lived in Hadhramaut. During the war she helped with famine relief and medical care in the area, establishing the first bedouin girls' school. From 1955 she spent 12 years as a Senior Assistant in the Arabic Service of the BBC, and in 1972 she wrote "Palestine Papers 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict".

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Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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Letter from Doreen Ingrams to Lydia Collins, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to express her honour and thanks at being awarded the Burton Memorial Medal. She will be able to be present on 10 June 1993. She also expresses her delight to hear that Beatrice de Cardi has also been honoured.

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  • English
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