Official and general correspondence, 1912
File
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 3
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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
Dates
- Creation: 1912
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 3
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk