PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
C.O.8
Reference :-
885
21 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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you, will not meet your requirements. This we can quite understand, and fully realise you want something better.
Concerning the sizes, we have not a definite instruction from you on the point, and we throw out the following sizes as being suitable :-
Small size:-
Over all (including margins)
Size of picture
Larger size :-
Over all
Size of picture
25′ wide by 20" deep. 18"
133"
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30' wide by 25" deep. 24"
18" J1
Any other sizes could, of course, be arranged to suit your wishes, and we would suggest that this be decided upon before the actual sample reproductions be put in hand.
We wish to make it perfectly clear that the two sample reproductions mentioned above would be entirely at our risk in the event of their not meeting with your approval, because we are quite willing to undertake this as a speculation, feeling as we do that we can give satisfaction.
As regards the safe keeping of the pictures our insurance policy reads as follows:-
"In case of loss no one
"On drawings, pictures, prints, and engravings the property of the insured are [or] held by them in trust or on commission, for which they are responsible finished, unfinished, or in process."
drawing, picture, print is to be deemed of greater value than £20.' If this amount be deemed insufficient by you, we should be quite willing to take out a temporary policy for any amount you desire, and further insure them when in transit per rail on the return journey.
We shall be glad to hear from you at your convenience, as we feel that, given a satisfactory picture and a reasonable guarantee on the part of some of the larger Education Committees to purchase a certain number within a certain time, the success of these pictures would be assured.
We gather from Mr. Bean's report that you desire a royalty payable on each picture, and if you have come to any decision as to a suitable amount, we shall be glad to have information on that point, but we do not think there is any need on this account to delay proceeding with the two sample pictures mentioned above, as this could be settled later when satisfactory proofs were arrived at.
Yours, &c.,
For E. J. ARNOLD & SON, LTD.,
E. G. ARNOLD,
Managing Director.
The Secretary,
Visual Instruction Committee.
36499/10
No. 92.
EDUCATION OFFICER, LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL, to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
DEAR SIR,
(Received 10 March, 1911.)
[Answered by No. 101.]
Education Offices of the London County Council,
Victoria Embankment, W.C., 9 March, 1911.
I AM forwarding, for the information of the Visual Instruction Committee,
a copy of the catalogues of the Council's collection of lantern slides.
This collection consists of about 30,000 slides, which are available for use in all schools and institutions aided or maintained by the Council.
The principals, head masters, or head mistresses apply for the use of the slides they require for the illustration of their lectures or lessons, and the slides are delivered to the schools and institutions in time for the lectures. They are collected as soon as possible after the lesson has taken place, and sent to other schools or institutions where they may be required
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The collection is kept up-to-date with the assistance of a conference consisting of selected officers and teachers who are experts in the subjects illustrated by the slides, and who are also expert photographers.
The Council has been endeavouring for some time past to secure modern slides illustrative of Colonial life and scenery, and in this connection valuable assistance has been given by the Agents-General, either by recommending their Governments to present sets of slides or by lending photographs or negatives from which slides have been made in the Council's laboratories.
I have now to ask whether the Visual Instruction Committee would be prepared to offer the Council facilities for reproducing, for educational purposes within the County, the valuable photographs which have been taken in the Colonies by Mr. A. Hugh Fisher.
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No. 93.
Yours, &c.,
B. M. ALLEN, Deputy Education Officer.
MESSRS. NEWTON & COMPANY to THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION
DEAR SIR,
COMMITTEE.
(Received 14 March, 1911.)
[Answered by No. 101.]
3, Fleet Street, Temple Bar, London, 14th March, 1911. We have been considering the question of the sale of the Indian sets of slides, and we believe they would sell far better if by any means they could be published at a far lower price.
It is true that if arrangements were made for letting them on hire, we believe they would be used to a considerable extent in educational work, but we are afraid that this would considerably affect the sales, which would be very disadvantageous, and so before letting them on hire, we would suggest as follows:-
That the Indian sets of slides should be published without colour, except in the case of the maps, which we should recommend to be coloured in every case. The sets of slides, 60 in each set, packed in a leather-board box, with strap for carrying, could then be sold at £3 5s. each, or £26 the complete series of 8 sets in 8 boxes. The discount to you would remain as at present, but we think the reduction in price from £6 6s. to £3 5s. would considerably facilitate sales.
We have talked this matter over with Mr. Mackinder, and we understood him to agree with the idea.
Of course, we should still propose to sell the £6 6s. sets to anyone who would take them, but we think that several who would have paid the lower price have been prevented from purchasing by the cost.
Should any occasion arise of any educational authority requiring a number of complete sets, which you thought it desirable should be supplied, and in which either of these prices seemed to be a bar in the way of the educational authority acquiring them, we shall be most happy, if it is suggested by you, to quote a special price, practically eliminating our own profit, and supplying at a price leaving no margin, if it should be requisite in order to ensure the use of these sets.
15200/10
No. 94.
We remain, &c.,
NEWTON & COMPANY.
SIR J. STRUTHERS to Sir C. LUCAS.
(Received 16 March, 1911.)
DEAR SIR CHARLES LUCAS,
Dover House, Whitehall, 15th March, 1911.
SOMEWHAT unexpectedly I find that I shall have to go to Scotland this week- end, and that consequently I shall not be able to attend the meeting of the Visual Instruction Committee on Friday.