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MY DEAR Lucas,

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No. 55.

MR. H. J. MACKINDER to SIR CHAS. LUCAS.

(Received 10 December, 1908.)

[Answered by No. 59.]

2, Tanfield Court, Temple, London, E.C.,

9 December, 1908.

I Now send you further correspondence which has taken place with Messrs. Newton, the upshot of which is that instead of having two issues of the slides, the one coloured and the other black and white, as lately proposed in order to meet possible competition, Messrs. Newton have agreed to reduce the price of the coloured series, leaving our agreement with them standing in all other respects. I have been into the question in detail, and think that the bargain now made is as close a one as we can possibly obtain. I hope you will agree to the terms, which hardly require the sanction of the Committee in that they are better than those which were sanctioned.

2. Everything is now complete, except for the actual printing off of the copies of the book and the binding. This will still take a few days, and Christmas will then be upon us.

It would, I think, be useless to issue a notice to the Press until the new year has turned, but on the 3rd or 4th of January your paragraph could be sent round. Everything will then certainly be in readiness.

3. Shall I send to the Colonial Office a certain number of copies of the book, together with slips conveying the compliments of the Chairman of the Committee, to be sent out for review, or shall I direct Messrs. Waterlow to send the books out with slips from the Chairman of the Committee? In the latter case would you be good enough to let me have your list of newspapers? to which I will get Sadler to add educational papers.

4. I propose obtaining an addresser, and circulating the preliminary matter to the persons named in Sadler's list, in each case with a slip from the Chairman of the Committee.

Yours, &c.,

H. J. MACKINDER:

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of December 7th. We note attached to your letter the alterations you have made in set 5 and set 7.

With reference to your remark about Messrs. Waterlow selling the book of lectures, as we stated previously, we have no objection to this.

We are, &c.,

H. J. Mackinder, Esq.

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GENTLEMEN,

No. 56.

JAMAICA.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

NEWTON & Co.

Downing Street, 9 December, 1908. WITH reference to my letter of the 31st of May, 1907,* I am directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a despatcht from the Governor of Jamaica asking to be supplied with a lantern, a set of slides, and copies of the book of lectures in the West Indian Edition of the lantern lectures on the United Kingdom prepared by Mr. Mackinder.

I am to request you to communicate with Mr. Mackinder, and to arrange with him for the supply of the books and apparatus required.

The cost should be met from Jamaica funds, and should not exceed, with charges for freight and insurance, the total of £55.

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No. 57.

JAMAICA.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

19 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

GENTLEMEN,

Enclosure 1 in No. 55.

2, Tanfield Court, Temple, London, E.C.,

7 December, 1908. MR. Chamberlain tells me that you are prepared to modify the prices previously arranged between the Visual Instruction Committee and yourselves for the supply of sets of the slides of the Indian edition of the lantern lectures on the United Kingdom for sale in this country, and that you agree to the following:-

The necessary slides accompanying the lectures to be manufactured by you at your own cost and to be sold by you either in complete sets of 377 slides at £35 the set, including boxes for storage, or by single complete lectures, but not other- wise. The slides of the separate lectures, including boxes, to be on sale at the following prices respectively: First lecture, £6 0s. Od.; second lecture, £5 15s. Od.; third lecture, £4 15s. Od.; fourth lecture, £2 15s. Od.; fifth lecture, £10 15s. Od.; sixth lecture, £3 0s. Od.; seventh lecture, £4 Os. Od.

In all other respects the agreement between the Visual Instruction Committee and yourselves, set out in Sir Charles Lucas's letter to you of the 10th September, 1907, is to remain unaltered. I understand, however, that you do not object to Messrs. Waterlow selling the book of lectures in addition to yourselves.

Messrs. Newton & Co.

Believe me, &c.,

H. J. MACKINDER.

SIR C. P. LUCAS to MR. H. J. MACKINDER.

MY DEAR MACKINDER,

Downing Street, 9 December, 1908.

I ENCLOSE a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Jamaica asking to be furnished with a lantern, a set of slides, and copies of the book of the West Indian Edition of the lantern lectures on the United Kingdom.

The Crown Agents have been requested to communicate with you with regard to complying with the Governor's request.

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SIR,

No. 58.

JAMAICA.

Yours, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

DEAR SIR,

Enclosure 2 in No. 55.

3, Fleet Street, Temple Bar, London, E.C., 8 December, 1908. WE beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter, and are quite willing to supply the sets of slides for the Indian edition at the new prices set forth in your letter

• No. 179 in Miscellaneone No. 188.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.

(Miscellaneous.)

Downing Street, 9 December, 1908.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 526, of the 11th of November,† and to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to procure and to send out to the Colony, a lantern, a set of slides, and copies of the book of the West Indian Edition of the lantern lectures on the United Kingdom prepared by Mr. Mackinder.

I have, &c.,

CREWE.

* No. 149 in Miscellaneons No. 188.

† No. 53.