THE MASTER'S LODGINGS
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD
TELEPHONE: OXFORD 2681
21st February 1931
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My dear Bottomley,
As arranged I spoke to Sir Robert Witt on Thursday
evening at the meeting of the National Art-Collections Fund
about the possibility of a Burlington House Exhibition of African
Indigenous Art. Next year they are going to do France. I
suggested for consideration African and Polynesian Indigenous
Art. I wrote to him yesterday to jog his memory. What I am
afraid of is that African and Polynesian Indigenous Art will not
I have have drawing power enough for a Burlington House show.
therefore suggested that they should take the Art of China as
the main thing and the other as a side-line.
know what Witt writes.
I will let you
I am speaking to the Registrar about classical Chinese
the Oxford examinations.
I enclose for your consideration and criticism the
draft of a letter to Sir Robert Ho Tung of Hong Kong. I thought
he was K.C.M.G. but cannot find his name in WHITAKER.
Would you
kindly put me right about this?
I have thought it better not to