Official and general correspondence

Title

Official and general correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 14

Summary

Mainly goodbye messages as Clementi goes on furlough, arrangements to meet with him on his return to the UK, and letters of appreciation and sympathy following his resignation due to ill-health (mainly dated June 1934 following the announcement of his resignation in The Times).

Includes letters from:

Alexander, Edward Bruce, three letters (including a postcard)

Amery, Leopold Stennett

Armitage, Francis Paul, ten letters (including two postcards)

Ardron, George Henry, seven letters (including a postcard), with enclosures (four postcards of Mallorca, Spain, and Bradda Head, Isle of Man)

Bailey, Arnold Savage

Baillie, Albert Victor

Baker, Alan Custance, two letters

Bilainkin, George

Blazé, Louis Edmund

Brooke, Bertram Willes Dayrell, four letters

Brown, C.C. (on behalf of the Sultan of Trengganu)

Caldecott, Sir Andrew, three letters (including a telegram)

Cator, Sir Geoffrey Edmund, two letters

Clodd, Harold Parker, two letters

Cooke, Sir Stenson (on behalf of the Automobile Association)

Cookson, Christopher

Corry, W.C.S.

Cowell, Hubert Russell, with enclosure (printed extract from the Statement of the Proceedings of a meeting of the Legislative Council relating to Clementi's retirement)

Curtis, R.J.

Dale, Percy John, six letters, with enclosure ( The Church Assembly News, vol. 11, no. 3, Mar 1934, which contains an article by Dale on the 'Commission on Home and Overseas Finance')

Dowbiggin, Sir Herbert Layard, with enclosures (newspaper cuttings from the Ceylon Daily News and Times of Ceylon, both dated 15 Jun 1934, announcing Clementi's resignation)

Dreyer, Sir Frederic Charles

Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles

Dunbar-Nasmith, Sir Martin Eric

Egerton, Sir Walter, three letters

Elias, David Henry

Ellington, Sir Edward Leonard, two letters (one with a covering note from C.A.G. Walker)

Exham, Sheffield G.B.

Eyres, Maurice, three official letters from the British Vice-Consulate, Suez, with enclosure (telegram from Sir Miles Lampson)

Farnell, Vera (arrangements for Clementi and his daughter to visit Somerville College, Oxford)

Fletcher, Sir Arthur George Murchison

Gammans, L.D., three letters

Geddes, Sir Eric

Gilman, Edward Wilmot Francis, two letters, with enclosures relating to the Oxfordshire Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England

Gordon, George Stuart, two letters

Guillemard, Sir Laurence Nunns, four letters, with enclosures (a letter from Harold Legat of the Boy Scouts Association and a programme relating to a visit of the Chief Scout and Chief Guide)

Haas, H.J.H.

Hake, Hallam Brookfield Egmont

Hall, Julian Dudley

Halley, Ronald, with enclosures (two newspaper cuttings about the closure of the Department of Chinese Studies at McGill University (incomplete) and Clementi's skills as a linguist)

Ham, G.L.

Haynes, Alwyn Sidney, three letters

Hobley, Charles William (on behalf of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire)

Huggard, Sir Walter Clarence

Hutchison of Montrose, 1st Baron (Robert Hutchison)

James (Brother James, Christian Brothers, St. Xavier's Institution, Penang)

Jennings, John Arthur Stuart 'Jack'

Johnston, Sir Reginald Fleming, eight letters, with enclosures (a flyer advertising his book, Confucianism and Modern China; three photographs of Clementi taken in Johnston's garden in London)

Jones, Peter C. (inviting Clementi to speak at the Empire Day dinner of the Imperial Club, Oxford)

Jordan, Arthur Benjamin, two letters

Keeling, E.H. (on behalf of the Royal Empire Society)

Killearn, 1st Baron (Miles Wedderburn Lampson)

Kotewall, Sir Robert Hormus

Lambert, Sir George Bancroft, two letters

Lauder, Paul

Leonard, H.G.R.

Lewin, Ernest Ord, two letters

Lewin, Percy Evans, two letters

Lim, Bock Kee, with enclosure (very brief curriculum vitae)

Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, three letters

Locker-Lampson, Oliver Stillingfleet

Loveday, Thomas, four letters

Marconi, Marchese (Guglielmo Marconi)

May, Lady Helena Augusta Victoria

Marks, Oliver, four letters (including an invitiation to the annual dinner of the Association of British Malaya)

Martin-Sperry, C., two letters

McDougall, B.D., two letters

Minett, Edward Pigott, two letters

Montgomery-Massingberd, Sir Archibald Armar, three letters

Nunn, Gertrude, two letters (one jointly with her husband, Rex Nunn)

Oldfield, Sir Louis

Onslow, 5th Earl (Richard Willam Alan Onslow)

Page, Richard (on behalf of the Singapore Turf Club), two letters, with enclosure (a photograph of the Governor's Cup)

Parbury, Lucy Jane

Pilcher, George, two letters (on behalf of the Royal Empire Society)

Preece, Sir Arthur Henry

Pretty, Eric Ernest Falk, four letters (one addressed jointly to Cecil and Penelope Clementi)

Pritchard, H.L., two letters

Rae, Cecil (joint telegram with T.R.A. Windeatt)

Raja Bendahara, four letters

Raja Muda of Perak (telegram)

Rice, Eric (on behalf of the Over-Seas League, thanking Clementi for his hospitality to Lisle Carr)

Roberts, Basil Coleby

Rolleston, Herbert Lancelot

Roosevelt, Theodore, two letters (one letter introduces Chauncey J. Hamlin and attaches a note from Hamlin written on his business card)

Rugby, 1st Baron (John Loader Maffey), two letters

Shelley, Malcolm Bond

Shuckburgh, Sir John Evelyn, two letters

Southorn, Sir Wilfrid Thomas

Strachan, Agnes K. (about the death of her husband, John Strachan)

Sultan of Perak (Iskandar Shah), two letters

Tan, Cheng Lock

Thomas, Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge, four letters

Tull, J.C.

Tung, Robert Ho

Walker, C.A.G.

Wilson, Sir Samuel Herbert, two letters

Wood, Casey Albert

Also includes:

table plan and menu for the Japan Society's annual banquet, 2 May 1934

programme and table plan for a Mercers' Company dinner, 12 Jun 1934

order of proceedings, addresses and table plan for Encaenia at Oxford University, 20 Jun 1934

invitation to meet the British Italian League and the Anglo-Italian Literary & Dante Society, with 'musical conversation' by Conte Don Guido Visconti di Modrone on Muzio Clementi, 25 Jun 1934

brochure about the P&O Steamship Ranpura with passenger lists and P&O leaflets about Aden, Colombo, and the Suez Canel, [Jun] 1934

newspaper cutting from The Times, 'The Dindings Retroceded to Perak', 14 Jul 1934

order of service for the Empire Service for the Dominions and Colonies in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 15 Jul 1934, with related newspaper cutting from The Times, 16 Jul 1934

newspaper cutting from Il Messaggero, 'Il governatore di Hong Kong e pronipote di Muzio Clementi', 4 Oct 1934 (in Italian)

newspaper cutting from The Sunday Times about the Mercers' Company, 16 Dec 1934

Date

1934

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box