| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
JSS.1.1.14
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| recordtype |
archive
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| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| scb_loan_type |
Reference only
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| scb_order_with |
JSS Box 1092 (Box 1, 2)
|
| callnumber |
JSS/1/1/14
|
| callnumber_txt |
JSS/1/1/14
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| callnumber-sort |
JSS/1/1/14
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| scb_alt_ref_no |
JSSI 1/14
|
| prefix_number |
14
|
| title |
Letters to Butterfield & Swire
|
| scb_date_creation |
15 Nov 1904-6 Apr 1910
|
| scb_level |
File
|
| level_sort |
7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
|
| scb_extent |
988
|
| format |
Archive
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| description |
Soft bound volume of typescript copies of letters, many blurred and illegible, and very fragile, the majority to Butterfield & Swire and concerning John Swire & Sons affairs, including partnership changes on the death of Edwin Mackintosh (1904) and the suggestion of forming a limited company (1905); management of House, insurance, Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co, Tientsin Lighter Company and Taikoo Sugar Refinery business, particularly Dockyard development (Sept 1907) and the problems of sugar prices (March 1908); the construction of Holt's Wharf, Shanghai, and local Chinese affairs including the general question of the membership of Butterfield & Swire staff on the Shanghai Municipal Council and the foundation of Hong Kong University (1909)
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| scb_arrangement |
This volume has been disbound following conservation work
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| scb_access_status |
Open
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| scb_copyright |
Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
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| scb_use_restrictions |
Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
|
| language |
English
|
| language_search |
English
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| scb_finding_aids |
Paper handlist available
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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
JSS
|
| hierarchy_sequence |
JSS.001.001.0014
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