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No. 161.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR H. J. MACKINDER.
MY DEAR MACKINDER,
[Answered by No. 166.]
Downing Street, August 1, 1907. THIS letter is to formally confirm the result of our meeting yesterday so far as concerns yourself.
The question is what your position shall be now that the extended work for which the Princess of Wales Fund provides is being taken in hand, which work will, like what has been done already, be, our Committee are glad to think, carried out by you or directly under your supervision, subject to the general control of the Committee.
You put forward suggestions in your letter of the 30th of July,* and of them the Committee agree to your receiving, in respect of general management of the scheme, a retaining fee of £300 in quarterly instalments, extending over. three years, that period to date from the first of September next. They also agree that you should be paid, for authorship, £5 per lecture. They further accept the principle that you should be given a royalty upon the sale of the slides, but as it is absolutely impossible to form any conjecture at present of what is likely to be the result of the sales, it is proposed that the amount of royalty shall not be fixed until one year after the issue of the first set of lectures, provided that whatever may be then settled will date back to the first sale and that the basis of settlement shall be a percentage varying in inverse proportion to the amount of sales, i.e., that you shall receive a lower percentage if the sales are large and a higher percentage if they are small.
The photographer-artist will be under your supervision and will take instruc- tions from you; but the Committee will, as hitherto, settle the main lines of work and policy and all such questions as the number of lectures and so forth.
My colleagues, I know, join with me in fully appreciating the value of your
services.
If this letter commends itself to you, kindly say so, and the personal question will then so far be settled.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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4. Should your services be dispensed with at any time during the period of your engagement, for any cause other than misconduct on your part, three months' salary would be paid to you in lieu of notice.
5. During the period of your engagement, your whole time would be at the disposal of the Committee, and your entire work, and the copyright in and all pro- perty in the negatives taken and drawings, paintings, &c. made by you, would belong to the Committee.
6. Subject to being satisfied with your services, the Committee would, at the end of your engagement, favourably consider the question of an exhibition of your work, in which exhibition you would have an interest.
7. Throughout the period of your engagement you would work entirely under the general direction of Mr. Mackinder, acting for the Committee.
8. I should be glad to be informed at your early convenience whether you are prepared to accept the appointment on these terms.
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MY DEAR BLAKE,
No. 163.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to SIR E. E. BLAKE. [Answered by No. 164.]
Downing Street, August 1, 1907. You know that the Crown Agents are kindly taking charge of the Princess of Wales's Visual Instruction Fund. I have arranged with Antrobus that it is not to be drawn on except with my authority in each case, but. I want to put this formally in writing and to ask you to be so good as to give instructions to that effect, so as to have the arrangement on record. The fund not being a Govern- ment fund, I cannot well write by the direction of the Secretary of State, and it is very good of the Crown Agents to take charge of it, but you will no doubt authorise my dealing with it on behalf of the Committee who are entrusted with its disposal.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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No. 164.
SIR,
No. 162.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR. H. FISHER. [Answered by No. 165.]
Downing Street, August 1, 1907. I AM desired by the Visual Instruction Committee to inform you that, on the recommendation of their Sub-Committee, by whom you were interviewed on the 29th ultimo, you have been selected as artist-photographer to the Committee, and I have accordingly the pleasure to offer you the appointment on the following
terms:-
1. You would be appointed for such a period as the Committee may decide, not exceeding in all three years from the 1st September, 1907, with remuneration at the rate of £300 a year, payable in monthly instalments.
2. For the first two or three months of this period you would remain in this country to confer with, and do experimental work under the direction of, Mr. H. J. Mackinder, and, subsequently, you would be required to visit such parts of the King's Dominions and Protectorates as the Committee might direct, and in the order they might direct.
3. While travelling on the work of the Committee outside this country, you would, in addition to your salary, be allowed your out-of-pocket travelling expenses, and such reasonable subsistence allowance as might be decided by the Committee irom time to time.
• No. 159.
MY DEAR LUCAS,
SIR E. E. BLAKE to MR. C. P. LUCAS.
Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., August 2, 1907. Visual Instruction Fund.
I HAVE received your letter of the 1st instant and we have noted that the Visual Instruction Fund is not to be drawn upon except with your authority in each
case.
C. P. Lucas, Esq., C.B.
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No. 165.
Yours, &c.,
E. E. BLAKE.
MR. A. H. FISHER' to THE COMMITTEE ON VISUAL INSTRUCTION. (Received August 5, 1907.)
DEAR SIR,
[Answered by No. 167.]
10, Hammersmith Terrace, W., August 3, 1907. In reply to yours of the 1st instant, offering me the appointment as artist- photographer to the Visual Instruction Committee from 1st September, 1907, I write to accept the post on the terms and conditions laid down in your letter.
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