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Official and general correspondence, 1934

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 14
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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:
  1. Alexander, Edward Bruce, three letters (including a postcard)
  2. Amery, Leopold Stennett
  3. Armitage, Francis Paul, ten letters (including two postcards)
  4. Ardron, George Henry, seven letters (including a postcard), with enclosures (four postcards of Mallorca, Spain, and Bradda Head, Isle of Man)
  5. Bailey, Arnold Savage
  6. Baillie, Albert Victor
  7. Baker, Alan Custance, two letters
  8. Bilainkin, George
  9. Blazé, Louis Edmund
  10. Brooke, Bertram Willes Dayrell, four letters
  11. Brown, C.C. (on behalf of the Sultan of Trengganu)
  12. Caldecott, Sir Andrew, three letters (including a telegram)
  13. Cator, Sir Geoffrey Edmund, two letters
  14. Clodd, Harold Parker, two letters
  15. Cooke, Sir Stenson (on behalf of the Automobile Association)
  16. Cookson, Christopher
  17. Corry, W.C.S.
  18. 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)
  19. Curtis, R.J.
  20. 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')
  21. 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)
  22. Dreyer, Sir Frederic Charles
  23. Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles
  24. Dunbar-Nasmith, Sir Martin Eric
  25. Egerton, Sir Walter, three letters
  26. Elias, David Henry
  27. Ellington, Sir Edward Leonard, two letters (one with a covering note from C.A.G. Walker)
  28. Exham, Sheffield G.B.
  29. Eyres, Maurice, three official letters from the British Vice-Consulate, Suez, with enclosure (telegram from Sir Miles Lampson)
  30. Farnell, Vera (arrangements for Clementi and his daughter to visit Somerville College, Oxford)
  31. Fletcher, Sir Arthur George Murchison
  32. Gammans, L.D., three letters
  33. Geddes, Sir Eric
  34. Gilman, Edward Wilmot Francis, two letters, with enclosures relating to the Oxfordshire Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England
  35. Gordon, George Stuart, two letters
  36. 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)
  37. Haas, H.J.H.
  38. Hake, Hallam Brookfield Egmont
  39. Hall, Julian Dudley
  40. 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)
  41. Ham, G.L.
  42. Haynes, Alwyn Sidney, three letters
  43. Hobley, Charles William (on behalf of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire)
  44. Huggard, Sir Walter Clarence
  45. Hutchison of Montrose, 1st Baron (Robert Hutchison)
  46. James (Brother James, Christian Brothers, St. Xavier's Institution, Penang)
  47. Jennings, John Arthur Stuart 'Jack'
  48. 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)
  49. Jones, Peter C. (inviting Clementi to speak at the Empire Day dinner of the Imperial Club, Oxford)
  50. Jordan, Arthur Benjamin, two letters
  51. Keeling, E.H. (on behalf of the Royal Empire Society)
  52. Killearn, 1st Baron (Miles Wedderburn Lampson)
  53. Kotewall, Sir Robert Hormus
  54. Lambert, Sir George Bancroft, two letters
  55. Lauder, Paul
  56. Leonard, H.G.R.
  57. Lewin, Ernest Ord, two letters
  58. Lewin, Percy Evans, two letters
  59. Lim, Bock Kee, with enclosure (very brief curriculum vitae)
  60. Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, three letters
  61. Locker-Lampson, Oliver Stillingfleet
  62. Loveday, Thomas, four letters
  63. Marconi, Marchese (Guglielmo Marconi)
  64. May, Lady Helena Augusta Victoria
  65. Marks, Oliver, four letters (including an invitiation to the annual dinner of the Association of British Malaya)
  66. Martin-Sperry, C., two letters
  67. McDougall, B.D., two letters
  68. Minett, Edward Pigott, two letters
  69. Montgomery-Massingberd, Sir Archibald Armar, three letters
  70. Nunn, Gertrude, two letters (one jointly with her husband, Rex Nunn)
  71. Oldfield, Sir Louis
  72. Onslow, 5th Earl (Richard Willam Alan Onslow)
  73. Page, Richard (on behalf of the Singapore Turf Club), two letters, with enclosure (a photograph of the Governor's Cup)
  74. Parbury, Lucy Jane
  75. Pilcher, George, two letters (on behalf of the Royal Empire Society)
  76. Preece, Sir Arthur Henry
  77. Pretty, Eric Ernest Falk, four letters (one addressed jointly to Cecil and Penelope Clementi)
  78. Pritchard, H.L., two letters
  79. Rae, Cecil (joint telegram with T.R.A. Windeatt)
  80. Raja Bendahara, four letters
  81. Raja Muda of Perak (telegram)
  82. Rice, Eric (on behalf of the Over-Seas League, thanking Clementi for his hospitality to Lisle Carr)
  83. Roberts, Basil Coleby
  84. Rolleston, Herbert Lancelot
  85. Roosevelt, Theodore, two letters (one letter introduces Chauncey J. Hamlin and attaches a note from Hamlin written on his business card)
  86. Rugby, 1st Baron (John Loader Maffey), two letters
  87. Shelley, Malcolm Bond
  88. Shuckburgh, Sir John Evelyn, two letters
  89. Southorn, Sir Wilfrid Thomas
  90. Strachan, Agnes K. (about the death of her husband, John Strachan)
  91. Sultan of Perak (Iskandar Shah), two letters
  92. Tan, Cheng Lock
  93. Thomas, Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge, four letters
  94. Tull, J.C.
  95. Tung, Robert Ho
  96. Walker, C.A.G.
  97. Wilson, Sir Samuel Herbert, two letters
  98. Wood, Casey Albert

Also includes:
  1. table plan and menu for the Japan Society's annual banquet, 2 May 1934
  2. programme and table plan for a Mercers' Company dinner, 12 Jun 1934
  3. order of proceedings, addresses and table plan for Encaenia at Oxford University, 20 Jun 1934
  4. 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
  5. brochure about the P&O Steamship Ranpura with passenger lists and P&O leaflets about Aden, Colombo, and the Suez Canel, [Jun] 1934
  6. newspaper cutting from The Times, 'The Dindings Retroceded to Perak', 14 Jul 1934
  7. 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
  8. newspaper cutting from Il Messaggero, 'Il governatore di Hong Kong e pronipote di Muzio Clementi', 4 Oct 1934 (in Italian)
  9. newspaper cutting from The Sunday Times about the Mercers' Company, 16 Dec 1934

Dates

  • Creation: 1934

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 14

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