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No. 199.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
Downing Street, October 8, 1907.
MY DEAR
Committee on Visual Instruction.
VARIOUS questions of detail in connection with the appointment of our photographic-artist, and the issue of the "Composite " edition of the lectures have arisen for decision; and as it would have been very inconvenient to me, and I think to the other members of the Committee also, to call a meeting before November, I have ventured to settle the points with Mr. Mackinder on my own responsibility. I enclose a set of the correspondence which has taken place since our meeting of the 31st of July, which will, I hope, explain the situation.
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DEAR MR. FISHER,
No. 200.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
MR. H. J. MACKINDER to MR. FISHER.
London School of Economics, Clare Market,
Kingsway, W.C., October 21, 1907. INSTRUCTIONS TO PHOTOGRAPHER-ARTIST.
ACTING under the direction of the Committee at the Colonial Office which is administering the Princess of Wales's Fund, I have the privilege now of handing you your instructions for your forthcoming visit to India and to certain other parts of the Empire for the purpose of obtaining sketches and photographs. I need not refer to the general objects of your mission, since these are set out in the letter dated October 4th, 1907,† which the Secretary of State is addressing to the Governor of Ceylon, and also in the lettert addressed by the Colonial Office to the India Office on the same date, copies of which are in your hands.
2. You will go direct to Colombo, where you should arrive on or about the 11th November. You will remain in Ceylon for not more than three weeks and will then cross to India.
You will find it necessary in India, owing to the immense area to be covered, to select a certain number of typical places for study. It will be quite possible to supplement your work in these places by photographs, obtained by purchase or gift, of the places which you omit, but it is obvious that you would not be able to carry out the instructions given below if you attempted yourself to visit every place of interest. You will therefore make Trichinopoly, where you should arrive about the 4th December, your place for sketches in the South of India, and will thence proceed to Madras, arriving there about the 7th December. After some work in Madras, you will cross by steamer to Rangoon, and after studying in Burma will proceed to Calcutta, where you should arrive about the 22nd January, 1908. It is obvious that what you do in Burma must to some extent be conditioned by the dates of the steamers from Madras and to Calcutta.
You will probably find it desirable to spend until the 7th February in Calcutta, but during your stay there you should make an excursion to Darjeeling. While at Calcutta you will, of course, be careful to consult such people as may help you in your mission, and will obtain such introductions for your further journey as may be possible and desirable.
From Calcutta you will proceed up the Ganges Valley, and it is proposed that you should select the following places for study-Benares, Lucknow, Cawnpore. Agra, Delhi, Hurdwar, and Dehra Dun. From the last-named place you may, it is hoped, have time to visit Mussooree. It is calculated that you should leave Dehra Dun on or about the 7th March.
You will now give about a fortnight to the Punjab, making Lahore your centre. There you will, of course, accept the advice of the local authorities, but it is desired chat in addition to the capital you should study Amritsar and Peshawar. On or
See No. 160.
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