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No. 28.

SIR J. STRUTHERS to SIR C. LUCAS.

DEAR SIR CHARLES LUCAS,

(Received 9th August, 1910.)

Scotch Education Department,

Dover House, Whitehall, 8th August, 1910. I SHOULD be very glad to carry out the part assigned to me in the joint memo- randum* by you and Mr. Mackinder, a copy of which I received from Mr. Mackinder this morning. But there are two difficulties:-

(1.) I do not go on holiday till towards the end of this month and shall be

away probably abroad during the whole of September.

(2.) I am afraid I could scarcely take the responsibility of writing to the publishers named without being sure that what I said correctly repre- sented the views of the Committee. I have no experience of negotia- tions with publishers, and you may perhaps remember that when I offered my services such as they are in the matter, it was because I thought I might be able to influence favourably, if that were neces- sary, some of the Scottish publishers.

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I therefore make the following suggestions:-

1. That as Mackinder, I gather, will be at home in the latter part of Sep- tember, he might make the preliminary communications to the pub- lishers.

II. The four unbound copies might nevertheless be sent to me as soon as they are ready in order that I may use them in communicating with the training college authorities in Scotland. In writing to them it will be quite necessary, I think, to send them a copy of the lectures in order that they may understand what it is all about. As I have said, I shall probably be away during the whole of September, but I could leave a letter in draft for each of the training college authorities to be posted to them with a copy of the lectures as soon as the latter are received here. I will give instructions as to this before leaving. I suggest this arrangement as it will be absolutely necessary that the Training Committees should have our proposals early in September if they are to arrange to have specimen courses of lectures given before Christmas.

Yours, &c.,

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MY DEAR LUCAS,

No. 29.

MR. M. E. SADLER to SIR C. LUCAS. (Received 10th August, 1910.)

J. STRUTHERS.

Eastwood, Weybridge, 9th August, 1910.

I HAVE received the memorandum* which you and Mackinder have drawn up, and am in communication with Struthers with regard to possible arrangements for the delivery of courses to teachers in the North and Midlands of England and in Scotland.

I think that our best chance lies in Birmingham and in Liverpool, and I will write to Sir George Kenrick (who is Mr. Chamberlain's brother-in-law), the Chair- man of the Birmingham Education Committee, and to J. G. Legge, the Director of Education for Liverpool, on the subject. But before doing so I shall be grateful if you will let me know the price of the set of slides and whether you have in view any suitable man to deliver the lectures. Of course the real difficulty will be the initial finance. If Sir George Kenrick is interested in the matter he will probably help us a great deal. But I should like to be able when I write to make what Americans call a clear business proposition, so that they will know the whole of the liability which would be incurred.

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I have been looking through my file of papers of the Visual Instruction Com- mittee in search of a printed paper which I might send to Kenrick and to Legge in order to explain the purposes of the Visual Instruction Committee's work. you think there would be anything better to send than the memorandum of May, 1910?* If not, might I ask for two copies of this?

Yours, &c.,

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DEAR SIR,

No. 30.

MR. A. HUGH FISHER to SIR C. LUCAS. (Received 11 August, 1910.)

[Answered by No, 32.]

M. E. SADLER.

Kelmscott House, Upper Mall,

Hammersmith, 10th August, 1910.

Visual Instruction ('ommittee.

In accordance with your kind suggestion that I should be present at a meeting, early in October, of the members of the Committee, and that I should send you a letter for their previous consideration, I write to express what I trust the Committee can see its way to do, in the matter of an exhibition of my work.

Trusting that the Committee will have found reason to be satisfied with my services, in the discharge of which I have worked with all the zeal in my power, I hope to receive what is of the greatest moment to me in my professional career and what can only, as I feel, redound to the repute and aims of the Committee itself. viz., the benefit of an early public exhibition of iny paintings at some well-known art gallery (e.g., the Leicester Galleries or the Fine Art Society's) in accordance with the meaning of Clause 6 of my agreement of the 1st August, 1907, which runs as follows:-

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"6. Subject to being satisfied with your services, the Committee would, at the end of your engagement, favourably consider the question of an exhibition of your work, in which exhibition you would have an interest.' Without troubling you with too much detail, may I recall to the mind of the Committee my request in 1907 for such an exhibition, and I think that individual members will perceive the importance of the same to me after the three year's absence from home.

The property in the paintings belongs, of course, to the Committee under the agreement, but, subject to such use for reproduction as may be required, I think it is very probable that the Committee would both wish to find, and would find, a market for their sale, and it is here, I hope, that my "interest" would be found in some share of the net proceeds, say, 20 per cent., after the expenses of the Com- mittee in arranging the show and framing the pictures.

In a few instances Colonial officials have already begged me to record them

as would-be purchasers of individual works.

With regard to the few dry-point etchings I have made at odd times, on copper provided by myself, I would ask, in view of the fact that I have forgone all Sunday leisure throughout my travels, that these should be considered as my own un- restricted property, except that the two signed proofs delivered to Mr. Mackinder may be used for the purposes of the Committee.

A separate suggestion which would, I think, merit discussion by the Com- mittee, is whether, subject to such use of the paintings (oil and water-colour) as the Committee may itself make for its own publications, and subject, of course, to the express permission and advantageous sanction of the Committee, a publishing firm of repute might not be invited to accept or bargain for the right to reproduce the paintings by an expensive process in a volume for which I could furnish the literary matter from my diary of which I have (apart from my artistic work for the Committee under our agreement) from time to time sent copies to Mr. Mackinder. But, as I have already hinted, the exhibition of the paintings done by me for the Committee is earnestly sought by me at this stage of my career, and as the somewhat sudden recognition of the shortage of funds for further work has obliged

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