Official and general correspondence

Title

Official and general correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 3

Summary

Correspondence for the period January to May 1912.

The letters mainly relate to Clementi's engagement and marriage to Penelope Eyres, the death of C. Thomas 'Tommy' Hose, and the opening ceremony of Hong Kong University for which Clementi wrote the words (in Latin) for the University anthem.

Includes letters from:

Armitage, Louise

Armitage, Francis Paul, four letters (including one signed jointly with J.N. Chau)

Alabaster, Sir Chaloner Grenville

Ardron, George Henry, six letters (including four postcards)

Beck, J.M., six letters

Beckwith, Charles W.

Bell, John, two letters

Blake, Lady Edith Bernal

Brewin, Arthur Winbolt

Bunbury, George

Chao, Ching Hua

Chan, King Wah, three letters

Chau, Siu Ki, five letters

Cookson, Christopher, two letters

Crofton, R.H.

Fuller, Denman, four letters, with enclosure (manuscript copy of the score of the anthem he composed for the opening of Hong Kong University)

Gedge, Ellen, two letters

Gompertz, Sir Henry Hessey Johnston, two letters

Hallifax, Eveline

Hose, Edward Shaw

Hose, George Frederick, three letters

Hose, Gertrude, four letters

Johnston, Sir Reginald Fleming, three letters

Keltie, Sir John Scott (the Royal Geographical Society has awarded Clementi the Cuthbert Peek Fund)

Lander, Gerard Heath, two letters

Lambert, Sir George Bancroft, two letters, with enclosures (two photographs of Lambert and his wife on a camping trip)

Loveday, Thomas, two letters

Lugard, 1st Baron (Frederick Dealtry Lugard), five letters, with enclosures (a letter from Sir Henry Miers and a note from Sir George Fiddes)

May, Sir Francis Henry, five letters (including three telegrams)

May, Lady Helena Augusta Victoria, nine letters

McElderry, Samuel Burnside Boyd, two letters

Ng, Hon Tsz

Oppenheimer, Elsie, 1912

Parkinson, Florence

Piggott, Sir Francis Taylor, three letters

Power, Sir Laurence Eliot

Ross, Stewart Buckle Carne

Stewart, Sir Gershom

Stewart, Murray, six letters

Thornhill, Arthur Buckingham

Wood, A.E., with enclosure (notes on the Hakka language and comparison with Cantonese), 1912

Webb, Clement Charles Julian

Also includes:

leaflet containing the words of the Hong Kong University anthem, 1912 (in English, Latin and Chinese)

University of Hong Kong. University Anthem, booklet containing the words (in Latin) and music, by Clementi and Denman Fuller, 1912

typescript summary of correspondence received from the Colonial Office about railway concessions in British Guiana and Brazil, 11 May 1912

Date

1912

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box