| Description | File of correspondence on academic and research matters, including enquiries from prospective Ph.D students, sharing of research by other Middle East scholars and invitations to conferences and other collaborations. Correspondents include Dr Walter Rothholz, Lars Wahlin, Werner Schwarz, Martin Hinds, Linden Vincent, Glencairn Balfour-Paul (regarding the Aspects of Oman conference at Exeter in July 1985), Roger Webster, Calvin Allen, Adrian Brockett, Robert Alston, British Ambassador to Oman, Edward Henderson and Yoichi Nakashima, an assistant at the Japanese Embassy in Oman. There are also letters and ephemera relating to Wilkinson's meetings with diplomats - a 1986 visit to London from an Omani delegation, and a 1988 invitation to Lancaster House for dinner with the Foreign Secretary and H.E. Abdul Aziz bin Mohamed Al-Rowas, Minister of Information for the Sultanate of Oman - and a separate envelope containing correspondence and offprints from Daniel Varisco. Several replies from Wilkinson are included in the correspondence. |