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No. 105.
SIR C. LUCAS to MR. ALEX. PORTER.
DEAR SIR,
Downing Street, S.W., 21 March, 1911. I GLADLY take the opportunity afforded me by your letter of the 17th of March* of explaining the work of the Visual Instruction Committee. You will find a useful summary of the history of the movement in Lord Meath's preface to the book of lectures on India, of which I enclose a copy. I enclose, also, a copy of a popular edition of the book-in green cloth covers-which may be used without the slides.
Each of the eight lectures in this series is illustrated by 60 slides--some black and white, some coloured, and some maps in colour. The slides for a single lecture are sold at £6 6s., and the complete set of 480 slides for the whole series at £50.
The Committee have just decided, however, to issue the slides without colour. except in the case of the maps, and these plain slides will be sold at £3 5s. for each lecture, or £26 for the full set of 480. A further reduction would be made to an education authority which required, at one time, a number of sets of either the more expensive or the plain slides.
I need hardly say that the Committee would be pleased to see their slides used by the Manchester Education Committee; it is, in fact, to such bodies that they look to spread the results of their work.
The Indian slides have been adopted by the Provincial Committees of Edin- burgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Dundee, and the Visual Instruction Committee are now in negotiation with the Education Department of the London County Council.
Arrangements have been made for the production of three further sets of lectures dealing with the Imperial stations from Gibraltar to the Far East, Australasia, and British North America respectively, and although sufficient funds are not at present available, it is hoped that the whole of the Empire will eventually be covered.
I shall be glad at any time to give you such further information you may require and, if you wish it, Messrs. Newton would, no doubt, send you specimens of the Indian slides to show to your Committee.
No. 107.
SIR C. LUCAS to MR. H. J. MACKINDER, M.P.
MY DEAR MACKINDER,
[Answered by No. 109.]
Downing Street, S.W., 22 March, 1911. We have been considering the question, which was raised in Chamberlain's letter of the 18th of March,* of storing Fisher's paintings and photographs. There seems notning for it but to have them here.
You will remember that at the last Committee meeting at which you were present we agreed that so long as the material was in your hands and Sargent had to go to you for the illustrations for the new lectures it was only fair that we should continue to pay the allowance for secretarial assistance.
Now that you can no longer find room for the pictures, the Committee inclined to think that this payment should cease. consult you first, to which they quite agreed.
I think so, too, but suggested that I should
Yours, &c.,
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No. 108.
C. P. LUCAS.
MESSRS. THOMAS NELSON & SONS to THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
(Received 24 March, 1911.)
DEAR SIR,
Parkside Works, Edinburgh, March 23rd, 1911. In reply to your letter of 21st instant, we shall be glad to consider the duction of the pictures of Indian and Colonial life for use in schools, and a repre- repro- sentative of our firm will be sent to see them within the next few days.
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Yours, &c.,
THOMAS NELSON & SONS.
No. 109.
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No. 106.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MESSRS. T. NELSON AND SONS.†
[Answered by No. 108.]
Downing Street, S. W., 21 March, 1911.
SIR,
THE Visual Instruction Committee of this Office have in their possession a number of pictures of Indian and Colonial life and scenery painted by Mr. A. Hugh Fisher, who travelled on their behalf through India and the East, Australasia, and British North America. The pictures include scenes in practically the whole Empire, except Africa and the West Indies.
The Committee have been asked to permit the reproduction of the paintings for use as wall pictures in schools, and they are considering the proposals of publishers who wish to undertake the work.
If you desire to go into the matter, I should be glad to be supplied with specimens of your work for the inspection of the Committee.
A representative of your firm could be shown, here, a selection of the paintings of Indian subjects.
I am, &c.,
W. E. NOALL, Secretary,
Visual Instruction Committee.
• No. 99.
† Identic letters were also sent on 21 March to Messrs. Cassell & Co., Messrs. Longmang, Green & Co., and Messrs. Raphael Tuck & Co.; on 27 March to the Fine Arts Publishing Co., Ltd., and on 29 March to Messrs. T. E. and E. C. Jack and Mr. F. 8. Jackson.
MY DEAR LUCAS,
MR. H. J. MACKINDER, M.P., to SIR C. LUCAS. (Received 27 March, 1911.)
25, Cadogan Gardens, S.W., 27th March, 1911. MANY thanks for your letter of the 22nd.‡ I quite agree that it is reason- able, under the circumstances, that the allowance for secretarial assistance should cease after the payment for the present quarter. I am sorry to give you the trouble of housing Fisher's material, but I have no space for it here. At the time of the last Committee Meeting which I attended my removal here had not been decided, hence I was not in a position to give notice.
Believe me, &c.,
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No. 110.
H. J. MACKINDER.
MESSES. THOS. NELSON AND SONS to VISUAL INSTRUCTION
DEAR SIR,
COMMITTEE.
(Received 6 May, 1911.).
[Answered by No. 112.]
35 & 36, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., 6th May, 1911.
Empire Pictures.
WITH reference to our conversation regarding the reproduction and publica- tion of the paintings now in the possession of your Committee, we beg to suggest an arrangement on the following basis:-
(1) The selection of the pictures to be made by us in conjunction with repre- sentatives of your Committee, the total number of subjects to allow
‡ No. 107,
• No. 96.
↑ No. 106.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :--
C.O.885
21 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO
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