Official and general correspondence

Title

Official and general correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 16

Summary

The letters dated 1940, 1942, 1943 and 1944 are mainly short notes from academics and librarians responding to Clementi's questions about maps; astronomy; Vandal history (specifically Victor Cartennensis); Greek, Egyptian and Chinese history and the correct spellings and origins of words.

Includes letters from:

Alba, Duke of, three letters, with enclosure (notes he has received from Spain about the Vandals), with a copy letter from Clementi to Alba, 1942

Allen, F. (on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society), five letters, 1942

Bailey, Cyril, three letters, with enclosure (letter from Battiscombe Gunn), with drafts of two letters from Clementi to Bailey, 1943, 1945

Bailey, H.W., three letters (one addressed to Dr. Barnett), with a draft letter from Clementi to Bailey, 1943-1944

Barnett, Lionel David, two letters, 1942

Campbell, William Kenneth Hunter, 1939

Cator, Sir Geoffrey Edmund, with enclosure (photograph of Locomotive number 241 of the 'S' class which has been named 'Sir Cecil Clementi', with compliment slip from the General Manager of the Federated Malay States Railways), 1939

Clark, E. Graham, with enclosure (proof of Reginald Lewis Nunn's paper on the Singapore airport which is due to be read at a meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers), 1939

Cookson, Christopher, three letters, with enclosure (a note from P.V.M. Benecke to Cookson), 1941-1942

Desch, Cecil Henry, three letters, with enclosures (printed reports by the British Association Committee 'appointed to report on the probable source of the supply of copper used by the Sumerians'), with a manuscript copy of a letter from Clementi to Desch, 1943

Dodd, Charles Harold, 1944

Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles, nine letters (including four postcards), with manuscript copies of two letters from Clementi to Driver, 1943

Edwards, Evangeline Dora, three letters, 1942

Featherstone, Clerk E., two letters, with enclosures relating to Mercers' School's wish to become a member of the Association of Governing Bodies of Public Schools (with Clementi as their representative), 1941

Fisher of Lambeth, Baron (Geoffrey Francis Fisher), with enclosures relating to the Association of Governing Bodies of Public Schools, 1942

Fleure, Herbert John, three letters, with enclosure (copy letter from Abbas Ammar to Fleure concerning the dagger found in the tomb of Tutankhamun), with two draft letters from Clementi to Fleure, 1943-1944

Gerschewitsch, I. (to D.H. Boalch), 1942

Giles, Lionel, 1942

Grensted, Laurence William, two letters (regarding a book to be presented to C.C.J. Webb), 1944

Gunn, Battiscombe George, six letters (including a postcard), with three draft letters from Clementi to Gunn, 1943-1944

Haloun, Gustav, seven letters (including a postcard), with a copy letter from Clementi to Haloun, 1942

Hinks, Arthur Robert, four letters, 1942

Hughes, Katharine, 1942

Inge, William Ralph (postcard), with a draft letter from Clementi to Inge, 1944

Jacoby, Felix, two letters, 1943-1944

Jimenez Fraud, Alberto, 1940

Jones, Sir Harold Spencer, seven letters, with manuscript copies of four letters from Clementi to Jones, 1942

Killick Millard, C., two letters, with enclosures (relating to the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society, 1936, 1939), 1939

Last, Hugh, two letters (one addressed to Cyril Bailey), 1945

Lea, Katie, three letters (one addressed to Alwin Clementi), enclosing notes, 1945

Mackay, G. (on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society), two letters, with a draft letter from Clementi to Mackay, 1945

Myres, John Nowell Linton, two letters (one addressed to [Mr.] Lee), 1939

Pastor, Antonio Ricardo, three letters, with two draft letters from Clementi to Pastor, 1940-1941

Rendall, F.G. (on behalf of the British Museum) (postcard addressed to the Librarian, School of Oriental Studies Library), 1942

Smith, David Nichol, with a manuscript copy of a letter from Clementi to Smith, 1943

Smith, Sidney, six letters, with a draft letter from Clementi to Smith, 1943-1944

Teichman, Sir Eric, 1944

Villaverde, Jose F. (note acknowledging receipt of Clementi's letter to the Duke of Alba, with manuscript copy of Clementi's letter to Alba attached), 1941

Wild, John Herbert Severn, three letters, with enclosure (letter from Claude Jenkins), with a draft letter from Clementi to Wild, 1943-1944

Woodward, Sir Ernest Llewellyn, two letters (including a postcard), with a copy letter from Clementi to Woodward, 1943

Wynne, Mervyn Llewelyn, ten letters, 1939-1940

Zulueta, Francis de, 1940

Also includes:

newspaper cutting from The Times, 'A Back Door to China. The Long Road. To the Burma Border from Yunnan', 14 Jan 1939

typescript memorandum by John Bell, Headmaster of Cheltenham College, on 'the Subject of Compensation to Schools Commandeered by the Government', 6 Nov 1939

typescript notes (incomplete) on the effect on schools whose premises have been comandeered/requisitioned by the Government during the war, 1939

two newpaper cuttings from The South China Morning Post regarding the opening of the China Light & Power Company Limited's new power plant, 27-28 Feb 1940, sent 'With J.P. Braga's compliments'

list of questions about Victor Cartennensis which Clementi sent to Alberto Jimenez Fraud, Francis de Zulueta and others (manuscript and typescript), 1940

Report on River Communications to the Interior of the North West District British Guiana by Gerald O. Case, Feb 1941

The Mistery of Mercers of the City of London, pamphlet, [1941]

This box also contains undated correspondence, comprising letters from:

Everett, Dorothy, two letters (one addressed to 'Miss Clementi')

Date

1939-1945

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box