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It is suggested that these advances might be made, in Canada, through the agency of the Bank of Montreal, and in the East through the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Mr. Fisher has been instructed to call on Mr. E. G. Antrobus to learn what arrangements you consider to be most suitable for the purpose.
Mr. Fisher's salary should continue to be paid in accordance with the arrange- ments set out in my letter of the 1st of October, 1907.*
&c.,
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slides. The total cost is set out in Mr. Lyttelton's circular despatch of the 13th April, 1905,* of which I enclose a copy.
I have noted the request in the last paragraph of your letter.
Miss E. Percy Taylor,
Education Sub-Committee,
Victoria League.
I am,
C. P. LUCAS.
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I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
I PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference :-
C.O.885
VICTORIA LEAGUE to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
No. 34.
[Answered by Nos. 35 and 66.]
Millbank House, 2, Wood Street, Westminster, S.W.,
15 July, 1908. DEAR SIR,
I AM desired to thank you for your letter of yesterday's datef with regard to the lectures and lantern slides for use in the Colonies. We have had a request from the recently formed Victoria League in Melbourne for lectures and slides describing many different phases of life in England. They tell us that there are men and women in Victoria competent to give these lectures, and that they would be very useful from an educational point of view. The whole ground is so admirably covered by Mr. Mackinder's lectures that we feel it would be a great mistake for us to attempt to prepare a series specially for use in Victoria.
The Victoria League was formed in Melbourne on May 23rd of this year; Sir Reginald Talbot presided, and was supported by Sir John Madden, Mr. Bent, Mr. W. H. Irvine, Mr. Swinburne, Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Sachse, Minister of Education, the acting Lord Mayor, and many other people of high position in the State.
We propose to write to the Secretary of the League in Melbourne, and suggest that they approach their Government through the Minister of Education, with the idea of persuading the Government to arrange with your Committee for an Australian edition to be prepared, but we should prefer to do nothing until we have heard again from you as to whether you would approve of this plan."
With regard to the sale of the MSS. and slides in England, we should be very glad if we might be notified when they are available, in case we are able, through our various branches and allied associations, to extend the sale and use of these lectures and slides.
ELEANOR PERCY TAYLOR,
Education Sub-Committee, Victoria League.
Believe me, &c.,
Sir Charles Lucas, C.B.,
Colonial Office, Whitehall, S.W.
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No. 38.
MR. A. S. CHAMBERLAIN to SIR C. P. LUCAS. [Proposal approved 21 July, 1908.]
The London School of Economics and Political Science,
Clare Market, Kingsway, London, W.C.,
20 July, 1908. DEAR SIR CHARLES LUCAS,
MR. FISHER has discussed with me the steps which should be taken to safe- guard the copyright of the photographs taken by him. I would venture to suggest that it will be sufficient merely to stamp the word "Copyright" on the back of all the complimentary prints. I assume that when the slides are made they will be similarly marked, but I doubt whether it would be advisable to touch the negatives. In any case it would seem hardly necessary to settle the general question at present, for until Mr. Mackinder's return all the negatives will be warehoused for us by Messrs. Newman & Guardia, so that there will be no possibility of any infringement of our copyright.
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No. 37.
Believe me, &c.,
A. S. CHAMBERLAIN.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY.
Downing Street, 20 July, 1908.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant, and to request that you will convey to the Court of Directors of the British North Borneo Company an expression of his Lordship's thanks for the ready manner in which they have agreed to afford facilities for the journey of Mr. Fisher, the artist who is to visit the territory of the Company on behalf of the Visual Instruction Committee sitting at this office.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
19 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to VICTORIA LEAGUE.
Downing Street, 17 July, 1908. DEAR MADAM,
I BEG to thank you for your letter of the 15th.‡ There would be no objection whatever on the part of the Visual Instruction Committee to the proposal of the Victoria League to suggest to their local branch in Melbourne that the Government of Victoria should be approached with the object of the adaptation for use in that State of the lantern lectures on the United Kingdom prepared by Mr. Mackinder. On the contrary, we should welcome your doing so. I should inform you, however, that in reply to a despatch§ from Mr. Lyttelton, then Secretary of State, Sir R. Talbot, in August, 1905, stated that his Government did not consider it advisable to participate in the scheme.
The cost of adaptation of the lectures for local use would be £100. To this would be added the cost of multiplying the adapted book of lectures and a set of
• No. 194 in Miscellaneous No. 188.
↑ No. 31.
§ No. 2 in Miscellaneous No. 188.
‡ No. 34.
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No. 38.
SIR C. P. LUCAS to MR. E. G. ANTROBUS (Crown AgentS).
MY DEAR ANTROBUS,
Downing Street, 24 July, 1908. WILL you kindly pay the enclosed bill for £1 14s. 8d. to the London Stereo- scopic Company for photographs to be supplied to the Rajah of Nabha, and charge the cost to the Princess of Wales's Fund? I duly authorised the purchase.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
No. 2 in Miscellaneous No. 188.
† No. 40.
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