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SIR,
No. 60.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. H. J. MACKINDER.
Dr. Muir to Mr. Lucas, Dec. 20.
[Answered by No. 62.) ··
Mr. Lucas to Agent-General, Cape. Dec. 23. Colonial Office to Dr. Muir, Dec. 23.
WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 19th December* on
Downing Street, January 13, 1906. the subject of the proposal to prepare a South African edition of the lantern lee. tures on the United Kingdom, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to enclose, for your information, a copy of further corres- pondencet on the subject and also the set of photographs of Durban Harbour, &c.‡ which the Agent-General.for Natal has sent to this office.
Agent-General, Natal, to Colonial Office, Jan. 3. Colonial Office to Agent-General, Natal, Jan. 13.
His Lordship approves of your proceeding with the preparation of the South African edition forthwith in anticipation of the further letter which it is expected to receive from Dr. Muir, who has now returned to Cape Town.
You will no doubt make a selection from among the Natal photographs, and utilise some, keeping the others for possible use hereafter.
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No. 61.
I am, &c.,
FRED. GRAHAM,
MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR. H. J. MACKINDER. (Private and Confidential.)
MY DEAR MACKINDER,
Downing Street, January 15, 1906. FROM the enclosed, it is clear that we must give up any prospect of an Egyptian edition of the lectures at the present time. We must also be very careful in anything that we publish not to annex Egypt. Keep this correspondence confidential, please.
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(No. 140.)
Enclosure in No. 61.
EARL OF CROMER to Sir E. GREY.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
Cairo, December 26, 1905. In reply to your despatch, No. 228, of the 14th instant, with its enclosures, I have the honour to transmit to you, herewith, copy of a memorandum prepared by Mr. Dunlop, Secretary-General to the Ministry of Public Instruction, on the steps taken by that Ministry to give effect to the suggestions of the Colonial Office in regard to the syllabus of lectures, illustrated by magic lantern slides, which might be advan- tageously given in Egyptian schools with a view to the development of Imperial senti- ments. I need scarcely add that these lectures are adapted to local requirements.
I have likewise the honour to forward, for convenience of reference, copy of a previous letter on the same subject addressed to me by Mr. Dunlop to whom I re- ferred Lord Lansdowne's despatch, No. 87, of May 12th last.
You will observe that the Ministry of Public Instruction have selected the slides which meet the requirements of Egyptian schools and already possess twenty-nine. The remainder have been ordered. I agree in the view expressed by Mr. Dunlop in the last paragraph of his memorandum of the 23rd instant, and venture to hope that no public or official pronouncement on this subject will be made which could in any
• L.F. transmitting copies of Nos. 50 and 51. † Nos. 52, 54, 53, 58 and 59. See list in No. 58.
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way be interpreted as evincing a desire to include Egypt among British Colonies or possessions.
The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Grey, Bart.,
&c.,
&c.. &c.
I have, &c.,
CROMER.
Mansourah, December 23, 1905.
In pursuance of the arrangements referred to in my letter of the 25th May last to Lord Cromer, an agreement was arrived at between the headmasters of the secondary schools of the Egyptian Government that one lecture on a journey to England should be included in the winter course of lantern lectures given in each of the secondary schools. The headmaster of the Khedivieh School undertook to make a selection of slides for the purpose, and selected from the Colonial Office list 57 slides as meeting the requirements of the Egyptian schools. Twenty-nine of those slides the Public Instruction Department already possessed and the remaining 28 were ordered in the usual way from Messrs. Newton and Company, London, from whom the Department has for some years obtained its supply of slides. The slides ordered, however, appear to be not at present on sale, as explained in Messrs. Newton and Company's letter of the 4th instant, a copy of which is enclosed herewith. Instead of informing the Department to that effect, before taking other action, Messrs. Newton appear to have communicated with the Colonial Office with the object of obtaining permission to supply the slides. This Department does not attach much importance to the particular slides in question and the lectures can be given without them; or the slides may be purchased at whatever price the Colonial Office fixes. In previous conversation I explained to Lord Cromer that the Egyptian schools in question are provided with lanterns and have at their disposal a highly qualified staff of Oxford and Cambridge men as lecturers.
In the further communication of the 8th instant from the Colonial Office it is proposed that a special edition of the lectures being prepared by the Colonial Office should be "designed for Egypt alone, or which would be better, designed at once for Egypt and for Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar." In view of what I know of young Egyptians I may be permitted to state that the proposed inclusion of Egypt with Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar would not be likely to contribute in the Egyptian schools to the "Development of Imperial Sentiments."
DOUGLAS DUNLOP.
MY LORD,
Cairo, May 25, 1905.
ADVERTING to previous correspondence with reference to the two enclosures (Colonial Office, No. 37132/1902, of the 5th instant, and Foreign Office, No. 87, of the 12th instant), I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of five copies of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton's circular despatch of the 13th ultimo, together with five copies of a "Syllabus of a course of seven lectures, illustrated by lantern slides, on a journey to England from the Eastern Colonies" (Miscellaneous, No. 174), and am directed to state that it has been arranged that in the secondary schools of the Egyptian Govern- ment a systematized syllabus of lectures, adapted to local requirements and following in the main outline the form of the syllabus suggested by the Colonial Office, will be delivered by a highly qualified staff of lecturers at the disposal of this Department in the course of the next school year and that slides supplementary to those already supplied to those schools will be procured where necessary for the special purpose in view.
I have, &c.,
DOUGLAS DUNLOP.
The Right Honourable
The Earl of Cromer, G.C.B., &c.,
&c., &c.
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