PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
السليسا
Reference :-
C.O. 885
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON |
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TQ,
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has been considered by our Directors, and we much regret that we are not prepared to incur any further outlay in connection with the series until we see to what extent the scheme is likely to be adopted.
We consider that as soon as the two volumes on Canada and South Africa are issued it should be possible to ascertain whether the method is likely to be taken up generally at home and in the more important oversea Dominions. Up to the present the sales of the three volumes already issued have been very disappointing, and we do not feel justified in committing ourselves to any more for the present.
We should like to know whether the Committee have in view the preparation of any other volumes besides the one dealing with the West Indies. We have had a representative calling upon the principal public schools throughout England and Scotland, and are doing our utmost in every way to awaken interest in the scheme.
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We are, &c.,
GEORGE PHILIP AND SON, LIMITED,
No. 96.
G. STANLEY PHILIP,
Managing Director.
VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MESSRS. GEORGE PHILIP AND
GENTLEMEN,
SON, LIMITED. [Answered by No. 107.]
Downing Street, 24 April, 1913.
I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd of April,* relating to the publication of a book of lectures on the West Indies.
My Committee look upon such a book as an essential part of a series dealing with the Empire, and they consider that the more nearly the scheme is completed, the greater will be the prospect of its general adoption.
One more volume only,-
-on East, West, and Central Africa,-would be needed to finish the course, and my Committee hope to be able to arrange for the volume at no distant date.
My Committee have been so fortunate as to secure the services of Mr. Algernon E. Aspinall, the Secretary to the West India Committee, for the writing of the lectures on the West Indies. Mr. Aspinall is undertaking the work at once, and my Committee feel bound to proceed with the preparations for the issue of the book forthwith, but they desire to bring these circumstances to your consideration before entering into other arrangements for publication.
With reference to the last sentence of your letter, I am to inform you that Messrs. Newton and Company are preparing sets of slides, which will be placed on hire at a fee of 10s. for each lecture set of about 60 slides.
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3. It has been found that the type of photograph most suitable for the Com- mittee's purpose is the artistic photograph by the competent amateur which brings out some definite point of interest. Many such photographs have been supplied to the Committee by officials and residents in other Colonies, and it is possible that some of the officers of your Government may have views which they would be willing to place at the disposal of the Committee. Clear prints are well adapted to the making of lantern slides if the original negatives are not available. A short description of each photograph would be of great assistance to the writer of the lectures.
4. You will observe, on reference to the accompanying specimen book of lectures, that illustrations are given of a few of the slides, and while it will be assumed that permission is given to reproduce all photographs as lantern slides, it is suggested that a note should be made of any case in which the owner of a photograph is not willing that it should be used as a book illustration.
5. The Committee would be glad, too, to be supplied with two or three colour sketches, or, failing sketches, with careful directions for colouring some of the photographs.
I have, &c.,
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No. 98:
L. HARCOURT.
MR. A. E. ASPINALL to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
DEAR MR. NOALL,
(Received 28 April, 1913.)
[Answered by No. 133.]
3, Ashley Gardens, S.W.,
I Now enclose lists* of photographs wanted to illustrate the following Jamaica and its dependencies;
lectures :-
Trinidad and Tobago;
The Windward and Leeward Islands; and
The Bahamas, Bermudas, Falkland Islands, and South Georgia.
You have already the Barbados list; so there is only the British Guiana and British Honduras list now outstanding. With regard to this, I shall be writing to Sir
Everard im Thurn.
In case of emergency, I shall be able to supply quite a number of photographs. I think, however, that it will be better in the first instance to get as many as we can from the Colonies, don't you?
With kind regards, &c.,
I am, &c.,
W. E. NOALL,
(Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee).
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ALGERNON E. ASPINALL.
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No. 97.
BERMUDA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (Miscellaneous.)
SIR,
Downing Street, 25 April, 1913. WITH reference to my Circular despatch of the 17th of March,† I have the honour to inform you that the Visual Instruction Committee have now made arrange- ments for the preparation of a set of lantern lectures on the British Possessions in the West Indies, in Central and South America, and in the Western Atlantic Ocean. 2. The Committee would be glad if you could help them by supplying photo- graphs showing the typical scenery, and illustrating the different aspects of the life of the inhabitants, of Bermuda.
No. 95.
↑ No. 86.
No. 99.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. 166.]
(Miscellaneous.)
SIR,
Downing Street, 29th April, 1913. WITH reference to my Circular despatch of the 17th of March, I have the honour to inform you that the Visual Instruction Committee have now made ments for the preparation of a set of lantern lectures on the British possessions in arrange- the West Indies in Central and South America, and in the Western Atlantic Ocean. 2. The Committee would be glad if you could help them by supplying photo- graphs showing the typical scenery, and illustrating the different aspects of the life of the inhabitants, of the Falkland Islands, as well as some views of South Georgia.
Soe Enclosures in No. 105.
† No. 86.
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