CO885-(21-23) — Page 212

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

السياسية

Reference :-

C.O. 885

22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TQ

12

extent indicated in the 2nd paragraph of my letter of the 9th of March,* without any expense being incurred on that account by the London County Council.

Yours faithfully,

W. È, NOALL, Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee

B. M. Allen, Esq.,

Deputy Education Officer,

London County Council.

38281 11

No. 21.

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.

(Miscellaneous.)

[Answered by No. €-1.]

Downing Street, 4 May, 1912.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to invite your attention to the 7th paragraph of Mr. Lyttel ton's circular despatch of the 13th of April, 1905,† in which allusion is made to the question of the preparation of illustrated lectures on the Empire for use in the schools of the United Kingdom,

2. The Committee have collected material for lantern lectures on India, the British Possessions from Gibraltar to the Far East, Australasia, and British North America. The first set of lectures, dealing with India, has been published, and two copies of the book are enclosed for your information; the second set will be issued in the course of a few weeks, and the remaining sets are being prepared.

3. The Committee are now engaged in the preliminary work of collecting views for the South African lectures, and they would be very glad of any help which you could give them in securing photographs showing the typical scenery and illustrating the different aspects of the life of the inhabitants of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland. The Committee are in communication with the British South Africa Company in regard to photographs illustrative of Southern and Northern Rhodesia.

4. The type of photograph most suitable for the Committee's purpose is the artistic photograph by the competent amateur which brings out some definite point of interest. The work of professionals is not generally suitable, and troublesome questions of copyright may be raised by its use. In their collection the Committee have many photographs of great educational value obtained from officers of the different Governments concerned, and they have no doubt that many similar photo- graphs are in the possession of amateur photographers among the officers under the High Commissioner. It has been found that it is not necessary to use the original negative if a good print is available, but in whatever form a photograph may be sent, it is desirable that it should be accompanied by a short description and by a statement that the Committee will be at liberty to reproduce it in the form of a lantern slide. A few colour sketches, not necessarily finished, but of such a character as to form a basis for the colouring of photographic slides, would be of great value.

I have, &c..

L. HARCOURT.

13

I understand that you have already been approached by Mr. A. J. Sargent, whom we have commissioned to prepare a set of lantern lectures on South Africa, and that Mr. Sargent has been allowed to inspect your photographs, and that he has been told that you would be prepared not only to let us have the use of any of those photographs, but also to send out to South Africa for additional views.

We are very grateful for all the help that you are giving us, and we propose to avail ourselves of it to the full. There is one point, however, which troubles us, and that is that, as I gather from Mr. Sargent, you make slides from everything sent home by your official photographer. Now, we are very anxious to have a number of original slides in our collection so as to make it something more than a mere re- arrangement of some other set. Our other sets have contained, and will contain, a very large quantity of purely original matter, and it is important to preserve this feature of the series.

With your exceptional facilities you are in by far the best position to get us what we want, and what we would like would be that your photographer should take ur collect for us a number of views to supplement those chosen from your collection: for this we would be glad to pay him a reasonable fee.

If you could see your way to arrange this it would save us a great amount of trouble, and I should be glad to hear whether you think it possible to help us in the matter. I shall be very glad to call on you to discuss the matter if that would be convenient to you.

Yours very truly,

A. BERRIEDALE KEITH.

38281/11

No. 23.

MR. T. S. NIGHTINGALE (SECRETARY TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA) to MR. A. B. KEITH (COLONIAL OFFICE). (Received May 15, 1912.)

Office of the High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa,

32, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W..

14th May, 1912.

DEAR MR. KEITH,

In reply to your letter of the 13th instant,* addressed to Sir Richard Solomon, on the subject of lantern slides, I have to say that we shall be only too glad to assist you in any way possible.

+

The photographs from which our collections of lantern slides are made are taken

by the South African Railway Publicity Department, and the distribution of the slides in this country is in the hands of our Trades Commissioner, Mr. Chas. Chiap- pini, whose offices are at 90, Cannon Street.

If

you will call upon him and explain exactly what you require, he will bring the matter to the notice of the Publicity Department, which will, I have little doubt. be prepared to meet your wishes in every way possible.

38135/11

Yours, &c.,

T. S. NIGHTINGALE.

No. 24.

08281/11

No. 22.

MR. A. B. KEITH (COLONIAL OFFICE) to SIR RICHARD SOLOMON (HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA).

DEAR SIR RICHARD,

[Answered by No. 23.]

Downing Street, 13 May, 1912.

I AM writing to you on behalf of the Visual Instruction Committee, of which

I am now the Colonial Office representative.

"No. 15.

† No. 2 in Miscellaneous No. 188.

PRESS NOTICE.

The Visual Instruction Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies has issued the second of a series of lantern lectures on the Colonies and India, for which a special fund was raised by a Committee of ladies presided over by Lady Dudley and under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, then Princess of Wales.

The present book is entitled the "Sea Road to the East," and treats of the British possessions in the Mediterranean and in the East other than India, which has already been dealt with.

• No 22.