Official and general correspondence

Title

Official and general correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 13

Summary

Correspondence for the years 1931 to 1933, with a few enclosures dated 1927 to 1930.

Includes letters from:

Buxton, 1st Earl (Sydney Charles Buxton), 1931

Herklots, Geoffrey Alton Craig, two letters, with enclosures (uncorrected proof of 'The Teaching of Biology in Hong Kong', a paper presented by Herklots at the Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, with related typescript), 1933

Imperial Airways Limited, two letters (one from Sir Eric Geddes) advertising the first air mail from England to Australia, 1931

Laing, Lilian, two letters, with enclosures (two newspaper cuttings from The Sunday Times being articles by Laing about the poet John Leyden; pamphlet advertising Ernst Linnenkamp's gallery in Berlin), 1932

Matsudaira, Tsuneo, 1931

Passfield, 1st Baron (Sidney James Webb), two letters, with enclosures (letters from Sir S.H. Wilson and papers relating to the GCMG, 1927-1931), with copies of letters from Clementi to Passfield and Wilson attached, 1931

Also includes:

table plan for a Mercers' Company dinner, 19 May 1931, and a leaflet about the Company, n.d.

five printed statements to the Federal Council, including proposals to establish a customs union, postal board and railway board for Malaya, and Clementi's address discussing the budget and the policy of decentralization, [1931]

printed memorandum by Clementi on the Decentralization Policy in the Federated Malay States, 20 Jul 1932

article about the Corona Club reprinted from The Crown Colonist, Dec 1933

printed address by Clementi to a meeting of the Federal Council, 30 Oct 1933

proof of Clementi's address to the Legislative Council on defence contributions, 30 Oct 1933

Corona Club Bulletin 1933

The University of Hong Kong. 1912-1933, souvenir brochure, [1933?]

Date

1927-1933

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box