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Regge Mr. White to
Award, pl.
7047
BY BAG anange meg.
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
香港下亞畢道
ELB
30/4
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本署檔號 OUR REF:
CR 4/511/83 T/S 17/83
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來函檔號 Your Ref:
LRR333/4
24 April 1985.
Dreffe
Min
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Dea Miss Blarey,
Many thanks for your letter of 10 April.
I shall be on leave in UK in July/mid August. Perhaps it might be better in these circumstances if I were to call on you first, so that we might be able to discuss our joint problems, if only superficially, before you go firm on a date to come out here.
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0 2 MAY 1985
OFFICER
PA
In brief, I would like to touch base with you
(a)
ROL SYPY
(b)
the possible need to supplement from Hong Kong records over the next 12 years the records about Hong Kong kept in London, so that there will be available in London after 1997 a full set of records for administrative and historical purposes; and
the need to review public records held in Hong Kong to decide what needs to be removed or destroyed.
Obviously, for (a) it will be essential for
But the point
you to come out here to see what we have. is, of course, to what extent, if any, do you think that what you have in the FCO and at Kew needs to be supplemented from HK. In this connection, what use do you think will have to be made of records in the UK
(a) for the conduct of official
business with the future SAR Government; and
(b)
for studies by researchers of Colonial history, etc.
Miss E.C. Blayney,
Library & Records Department,
F.C.O.,
London SW1A 2AH,
U.K.
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