1927 lecture invitation Near & Middle East Assoc. Hasluck Witchcraft in Balkans

An invitation card to a Near & Middle East Association lecture held 5th April 1927 in Kensington by Mrs Margaret Hasluck MA FRGS on the topic of Witchcraft & Weather-lore from the Balkans, with Miss Sylvia Townsend Warner presiding.

Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck M.B.E. (1885 – 1948) was a Scottish geographer, linguist, epigrapher, archaeologist and scholar. Following her husband's death in 1920, Hasluck travelled to Albania where she undertook anthropological research in Macedonia and made her home in Elbasan for 13 years, becoming a legend among the Albanians and publishing numerous articles, including the first English-Albanian grammar and reader. 

The invitation is addressed to Charles Bell of Wallasey. Charles Bell was the Political Officer for Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet from 1908 -1918 and having received an invitation from the thirteenth Dalai Lama he undertook a special mission to Lhasa in 1920-21. His collection of Tibetan bells and other curios was donated to Liverpool Museum.