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we are happy to accept the terms mentioned in your letter of the 29th October.* and will carry out the work to the best of our ability.

Sir C. P. Lucas.

15200

We remain, &c.,

NEWTON AND COMPANY.

No. 56.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY, EDINBURGH, SCOTCH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, to SIR JOHN STRUTHERS.

The SECRETARY,

CAN the Visual Instruction Committee bring any pressure to bear upon the firm to whom they have handed over the manufacture of slides for the series of Indian lectures? Apparently they are treating the Committee here, and doubtless other Committees, in a very inconsiderate and unsatisfactory fashion. The lectures were arranged for, and the dates fixed, on the understanding that the slides would be forthcoming at the proper time. How far the slide makers pledged themselves I cannot say, not having seen the correspondence. But the facts are that the slides for the first lecture only arrived on the day on which it was delivered, while those for the second lecture, which was to be held this evening, have not come yet, and the Committee are informed--need not be expected before the end of the week. In the meantime they have engaged the hall at a fee of £8 8s. As the proprietor has refused to cancel this they must pay it, although they do not occupy the hall. There is no guarantee that the same thing may not happen with the other lectures, while a considerable amount has been spent in telegraphing and corres- ponding to try and get things expedited.

I don't know what the terms of the Committee's agreement with the slide makers may be, but I have said to Mr. King that I hope they are sufficiently tight to enable the Committee to deduct all this extra expenditure from the payment of £50 which they have undertaken to make.

9 November, 1910.

G. M.

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people who had charge of the matter working overtime; the sentence should have run: We hope to send the first set of your esteemed order towards the end of the week." The idea of giving this date was that they might know how soon the course of lectures could commence. We did not intend to convey that the whole of the sets would be ready by then; it was, of course, an absolute impossibility, but we hoped to have the first lecture set ready. We will undertake that all the rest of the sets shall be down in time for the dates now given us. We did not previously under- stand that it was urgent, and when we got applications for the slides to be down quickly, we wrote at once for the dates of the lectures, and we will see in future that every set gets there in good time for the lecture.

We are writing to Dundee, Edinboro', and Aberdeen to say that they may be sure that they will get every set in good time for the date of their lecture. The only doubt is with reference to the coloured slides, either those we are painting in oils, or those supplied by Messrs. Sanger, Shepherd; and Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Mackinder's secretary, has been here this morning, and has suggested that we should send off our own slides, the whole set of which will be ready in every case, and not wait for Sanger, Shepherd pictures, or our own coloured ones, if they should not be ready. There will be no difficulty whatever about the plain slides which we are making, the delay is caused by the coloured ones.

We are extremely sorry that you should have been annoyed about the matter, and hope we shall now be able to satisfy all three centres.

We remain, &c.,

Sir Charles Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B.

15200

No. 58.

NEWTON & CO.

15200

No. 57.

MESSRS. NEWTON & CO. to SIR C. LUCAS. (Received 11 November, 1910.)

3, Fleet Street, Temple Bar, London, DEAR SIR,

11th November, 1910. We were extremely sorry to hear yesterday that there was any difficulty about the delivery of the slides, that a lecture had had to be postponed at Edinburgh. We cannot understand why the lecture was postponed, as we received a telegram about 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning asking if the slides had been sent, as otherwise they must cancel the lecture for Wednesday. We wired at once in reply that the slides should be sent by rail that night, and that we would wire what train they went by. We sent them by the night mail, and sent them another wire to say that they The train was due in Edinboro' 7.30 a.m. Wednesday morning, so that gone. they knew that they would receive the slides, and we cannot understand why they cancelled the lecture.

had

When the letter was written to you which was shown to us yesterday, the slides must have been in Edinboro' some hours, we should think, and we had sent them two telegrams to say that they would be there.

Originally we received the order from Edinboro' dated October 6th, and the one from Dundee dated October 5th. It was not until October 7th that the final list of slides was approved, so that we could not begin work on them until then.

We at once placed the orders in hand, and wrote to Edinboro' acknowledging the order, saying the sets had now been finally passed and were being printed, and "We hope to send your esteemed order towards the end of the week. There was an omission in this sentence, caused, we are afraid, by our being extremely busy and all our

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DEAR SIR,

MESSRS. GEO. PHILIP & SON, LTD., to SIR C. LUCAS. (Received 18 November, 1910.)

[See No. 61.]

The London Geographical Institute, 32, Fleet Street,

London, E.C., 18th November, 1910.

V. I. C. Lectures on India.

HEREWITH we beg to hand you two copies in paper covers. Copies bound in cloth will be ready early next week.

To enable us to register copyright to-morrow, as arranged, kindly sign the

enclosed form and return it to us by the bearer.

If you think fit, we should be glad to have a copy of the book specially bound,

to be presented on behalf of the Committee and ourselves to Her Majesty the Queen. If this course is practicable perhaps you will kindly advise us.

Sir Charles Lucas, K.C.M.G., Colonial Office, S.W.

36499

We are, &c.,

GEORGE PHILIP & SON, LTD.

No. 59.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE AT 3 O'CLOCK ON FRIDAY, THE 18TH OF NOVEMBER, 1910.

PRESENT :

Sir Cecil Clementi Smith (in the Chair).

Mr. Sadler.

Mr. Noall (Secretary).

In accordance with the resolution of the General Committee at their meeting

of the 7th of October, 1910, the Sub-Committee, with the exception of Sir John Struthers, who was unable to be present. met to settle what would be an equitable arrangement as between Mr. Mackinder and the Committee.

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