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VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
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EDUCATION OFFICES. [Answered by No. 10.1
Downing Street, S.W., 4th February, 1914. WITH reference to your letter of the 6th of January,* addressed to the Earl of Meath, and to my interview with Mr. Palfery on the 28th of January, I am directed to inform you that the Visual Instruction Committee will consent to the reproduc- tion by the London County Council of a further series of paintings for use as reward cards and that they do not propose to charge a fee.
At the same time they feel strongly, and wish to place it on record, that the Council, while making a convenience of the Committee, might in their turn reason- ably have given some encouragement to the work by buying and using the sets of slides and the text books, or at any rate a fair proportion of them. The Committee make no profit for themselves of any sort or kind out of the receipts from sales or hiring, and any such receipts are applied to extending and improving their work. As the County Council know, the sole object with which their funds were originally raised and to which they have been applied is the supply of sound knowledge as to the different parts of the Empire to the schools and teachers, and they consider that they have some ground for thinking that the Education Com- mittees of the United Kingdom, and not least that of the London County Council, might see their way to encouraging a task to which great labour and a large sum of money have been devoted.
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I am, &c.,
W. E. NOALL (Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee).
No. 8.
VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MR. A. WYATT TILBY. [Answered by No. 9.]
DEAR MR. TILBY,
65, St. George's Square, S.W.,
5th February, 1914. CONFIRMING our conversation, I now ask you, on behalf of the Visual Instruc- tion Committee of the Colonial Office, to undertake the Lectures on Tropical Africa, which will complete the work of the Committee.
A book is wanted-uniform in size and in kind with the other books of the series including six lectures on West and East Africa, Uganda, Nyasaland, and Zanzibar, each lecture to be illustrated by some 60 slides, more or less.
The lectures are intended to be written to the slides, but also to be written
so as to form a readable book apart from the slides.
You will be expected to write the lectures and see them through the Press and also to select and arrange the slides.
The Committee offer you a total fee of £80, being at the rate of £10 per lecture, and £20 for the general work connected with the slides. They bear all the expense involved in procuring the slides, and will co-operate with you in every possible way. I would ask you to bear in mind that it is necessary to be as economical as possible --consistently with producing a really satisfactory result in the matter of the slides.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS. P.S.-The Committee would be glad if the book could be published early in the
autumn.
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No. 9.
MR. A. WYATT TILBY to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
DEAR SIR,
(Received 9th February, 1914.)
Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue,
London, W.C., 7th February, 1914.
I HAVE pleasure in accepting Sir Charles Lucas's offer that I should write a book of six lectures on East and West Africa for the Visual Instruction Committee for a total fee of £80.
W. E. Noall, Esq.
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No. 10.
Yours truly,
A. WYATT TILBY.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATION OFFICES to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
(Received 13th February, 1914.)
Education Offices, Victoria Embankment, W.C. DEAR SIR,
12th February, 1914. I AM to thank you for your letter of the 4th instant,* in which you say that the Visual Instruction Committee will consent to the reproduction of a further series of paintings.
With regard to the question which you raise as to the co-operation of the Council, I am afraid I can only say that the whole question was carefully considered by the appropriate Sub-Committee, but they were not able to see their way to place the text-books on the Requisition List.
I can assure you, however, that the Sub-Committee fully appreciate the value of the work that your Committee have done, and that considerable benefit to the school children of London has resulted from the facilities which your Committee have given for the reproduction of their paintings.
Yours faithfully,
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SIR,
No. 11.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
B. M. ALLEN, Deputy Education Officer.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, 14th February, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 22 of the 13th of January,† and to express to you the thanks of the Visual Instruction Com- mittee for the photographs which accompanied your despatch and for the explana- tory notes which you have been good enough to prepare. I shall be glad also if will cause the thanks of the Committee to be conveyed to Mr. George Pinard.
you
2. It is probable that most of the photographs by J. Anjo will be used for lantern slides, and I will communicate with you with regard to the payment of the copyright fees when the final selection of slides and book-illustrations has been made.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
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