Official and general correspondence

Title

Official and general correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 15

Summary

The letters dated 1938 are mainly letters of congratulation on Clementi being awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Magdalen College, Oxford:

Includes letters from:

Bailey, Cyril, two letters, 1938

Bell, John, 1937

Benecke, Paul V.M., 1938

Bickmore, David (on behalf of the Edinburgh Geographical Institute), 1938

Brown, four letters, with enclosures, 1937-1938 (=Res.)

Campbell, William Kenneth Hunter, with enclosure (a copy of his first report on China for the League of Nations, typescript), 1935

Caulfield, R. St. George, with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Straits Times, 19 Nov 1936, about the Singapore airport), 1936

Christie, Ethel, 1938

Clark, H. Harley, two letters (including a lettercard), 1938

Cookson, Christopher, 1938

Dowbiggin, Sir Herbert Layard, with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Times containing news from Oxford University, including the names of those awarded Honorary Fellowships of Magdalen College, 19 May), 1938

Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles, four letters, 1936-1938

Forster, Lancelot, 1936

Gordon, George Stuart, three letters, with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Times containing news from Oxford University, including the names of those awarded Honorary Fellowships of Magdalen College, 19 May), 1938

Hayley Bell, Francis, with enclosure (a photograph of charts and a map showing the barometric and wind velocity readings on the day of the Hong Kong typhoon, 2 Sep 1937, and a list of ships driven ashore), 1938

Haynes, Alwyn Sidney, three letters, with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Times, 14 Jun 1937, about the official opening of the new Singapore airport), 1937-1938

Johnston, Sir Reginald Fleming, 1937

Jordan, Arthur Benjamin, two letters, with enclosures (articles from the Monthly Review of Chinese Affairs, no. 78, Feb 1937 and no. 82, Jun 1937, on 'The Situation in China'), 1937

Lambert, Sir George Bancroft, 1938

Lane, W.B. (card about the Tower of Babel, inscribed with message), 1936

Leigh-Wood, Sir James (circular letter from the Royal Empire Society appealing for subscriptions towards a portrait of Sir Archibald Weigall, with receipt attached), 1938

McDougall, B.D., with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Daily Chronicle, 19 Aug 1936, about Clementi's book, The Chinese in British Guiana), 1936

Minett, Ethel Mary, two letters, 1938

Noble, Percy, 1936

Northcote, Sir Geoffrey Alexander Stafford, two letters, 1937

Parker, Henry Michael Denne, four letters, 1938

Parry, Henry, 1938

Shouson, Sir Chow, 1936

Smith, Charles A, with enclosure (corrected draft of Clementi's interview with the International News Service, New York, about Japan), 1938

Smith, Kingsbury, with enclosure (corrected draft of Clementi's interview with the International News Service, New York, about Japan), 1938

Thompson, Beatrice, two letters, with enclosures relating to the British Empire & China Trade Fair, Hong Kong (minutes of a meeting attended by Clementi, 24 Jan 1936; transcript of speech by Thompson, 'Why Neglect the South China Market: Facts and Realities in Modern China'; copy letters to S.H. Dodwell and Sir W.T. Southorn; typescript resume of 'events leading up to the present position of the British Empire & China Trade Fair'), 1936

Webb, Clement Charles Julian, 1938

Wood, Casey Albert, two letters, 1935, 1938

Also includes:

table plans for Mercers' Company dinners on 3 Jul, 29 Oct, 12 Nov, 19 Nov and 10 Dec 1935

manuscript draft of Clementi's speech for a meeting of the Royal Empire Society, 6 Apr 1936, with [press release] about Sir Norman Angell's address at the same meeting

typescript notes on W.B. Lane's lecture to the Ethnic Study Group on 'Babylon: Past and Present', 23 May 1936

eight newspaper cuttings from The Times about Japan and China, 21 Sep 1936-11 Feb 1937

two newspaper cuttings from The South China Morning Post about the successes of Hong Kong University students in exams in England, 22 Sep, 24 Sep 1936, with compliment slips of Sir William Hornell

two newspaper cuttings from The South China Morning Post and The Hong Kong Sunday Herald about Professor Ride's lecture on Hong Kong's medical education, 3-4 Oct 1936, with compliment slips of Sir William Hornell

newspaper cutting from The Times, 'Railway across North Siberia', 28 Nov 1936

typescript of W.B. Lane's paper read to the Ethnic Study Group on 'The Growth & History of the City Companies', 2 Oct 1937

journal cutting from the Radio Times about a broadcast of Muzio Clementi's Sympony in D, 15 Oct 1937

card listing 'Collar Days', Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, 1 Jan 1938

speech by Clementi at a Royal Empire Society dinner, 18 Jan 1938, with table plan and typescript biographical information about the chief guest, Count Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum, 1938

newspaper cutting from The Times on local expenditure (a Letter to the Editor from H.B. Bryant), 18 Jun 1938

invitation to the Gaudy Dinner, Magdalen College, Oxford, 24 Jun 1938

typescript notes of a talk between Clementi and the Raffles College Commission about British Malaya and the relations between the Malay, Chinese and Indian communities, 11 Aug 1938

two newspaper cuttings about the assassination of the Chinese statesman Tong Shao-yi on 30 Sep 1938

newspaper cutting from The Daily Sketch, 'Former Hong-Kong Governor warns the West' (interview with Clementi), 28 Jan 1938, with compliment slip from D.M.B. Collier, 30 Jan 1938

Date

1935-1938

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box