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I do not know whether there has been any misunderstanding. If so I fear it must have been my fault. However, it seems very desirable, for simplicity's sake, that one Colony should, in the first instance, pay the initial cost, and accordingly we are writing to the High Commissioner to ask if the Transvaal would do so.
Meanwhile, any material you may think fit to send for slides would be gratefully accepted. I hope you had a good voyage.
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No. 70.
SOUTH AFRICA.
Believe me, &c.,
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C. P. LUCAS.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to THE EARL OF SELBORNE.
MY DEAR SELBORNE,
Downing Street, March 7, 1906.
I Do not like at a critical time to trouble you as to a not very important matter, but will you kindly look at a despatch* which goes by this mail as to illustrated lectures on the United Kingdom which were drawn up for the Eastern Colonies and of which, being very good of their kind, we want to have separate editions for the separate groups of Colonies.
An edition is now preparing for Mauritius, another for the West Indies, another for West Africa, and we are hoping to arrange for a Canadian edition, but are waiting to hear further from Canada.
In the case of the West Indies and West Africa, we have arranged that one Colony shall pay the whole initial cost, as a matter of convenience, and recoup itself from the others, and I thought I had settled it all with Dr. Muir, the head of educa- tion at the Cape, when he was in England lately, so that Cape Colony should pay in the first instance on behalf of South Africa
Since, however, he went back to the Cape, I have had a letter from his Depart- ment which seems to show that there some difficulty, I think departmental, which I do not quite understand, but which leaves the Cape in the position of being ready to co-operate, but not to take the whole initial expense. We are, therefore, asking the Transvaal to give a lead. interested Wilson in the matter when over in England as well as Dr. Muir, and the expense is so small that I hope you will see fit to authorise it.
I enclose copy of my correspondencet with Dr. Muir and also a copy of the Eastern edition of the lectures to show what they are like. For South Africa the first lecture would be altered and we should import into it some South African views. (Natal has already sent photographs for the purpose.) You might also wish modi- fications to be made in the last lecture. That lecture was most closely scrutinised' by War Office and Admiralty and written and revised with the utmost care; but there are one or two references to the South African war which you might possibly wish eliminated.
We would be glad to hear soon in order that Mackinder may set to work on a South African edition..
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Believe me, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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selected some for the Mauritius Edition of the lectures on the United Kingdom, but he has sent only a group of sea cocoanuts to represent the Seychelles. I have written to Mr. Rowden, now of the Gold Coast, who was, I believe, formerly at the Seychelles, to ask him if he can help me to one or two photographs of the Seychelles. Obviously I must not delay the edition if there is any difficulty in obtaining them.
I want to give three views of British East Africa, &c. They are as follows :- 1. View of Zanzibar` (a street view will suffice if it has some vegetation).
2. View of Kilindini Harbour (a general view, if possible looking up the
harbour).
3. View, if possible with wild animals, on the Uganda Railway.
As the Uganda Railway was made by a Foreign Office Committee without the intervention of a contractor, and as the railway has now been taken over by the Colonial Office, it seems to me likely that you have at the Colonial Office a good series of photographs in connection with that line. I know that some fine photo- graphs were taken while the line was making. Do you think that three could be selected for me to illustrate the subjects enumerated?
Yours, &c.,
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No. 72.
H. J. MACKINDER.
MR. H. J. MACKINDER to MR. C. P. LUCAS. (Received March 15, 1906.) [Answered by No. 75.]
(West African Edition.)
MY DEAR LUCAS,
The London School of Economics and Political Science,
Clare Market, London, W.C., March 14, 1906.
IN ordering the sets of slides there will, of course, be one complete set for Mauritius and one for Trinidad, but it seems to me that I should order two sets for West Africa, namely, one for the Gold Coast and one for Nigeria. The sets will be made with greater dispatch if I give the order for all four at once.
Will you please confirm my assumption that there must be two sets for West Africa?
Yours, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 73.
TRINIDAD.
H. J. MACKINDER.
CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received March 17, 1906.)
[Answered by No. 74.]
Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., March 16, 1906. I HAVE the honour to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State,
a copy of a letter from the Government of Trinidad as to the supply of copies of the lantern lectures prepared by Mr. H. J. Mackinder, and we shall be glad to learn at an early date what action we are to take in the matter. It will be observed that the Colonial Government wish the charges to be brought to account in this financial year if possible.
No. 71.
MAURITIUS.
MR. H. J. MACKINDER to MR. C. P. LUCAS. (Received March 15, 1906.)
(Mauritius Edition.)
MY DEAR LUCAS,
[Answered by No. 75.]
The London School of Economics and Political Science,
Clare Market, London, W.C., March 14, 1906.
I HAVE received the photographs from the Governor of Mauritius, and have
* No. 68.
† No. 52, 53, 65 and 69.
Enclosure in No. 73.
I have, &c..
W. H. MERCER.
COLONIAL SECRETARY, Trinidad, to CROWN AGENTS.
(No. 3337/493/05.)
GENTLEMEN,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Trinidad, February 14, 1906. REFERRING to correspondence with the Secretary of State on the subject of the adaptation for use in the West Indies of the lantern lectures on the United
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