John Swire and Sons Letters In: From Butterfield & Swire

Although up to 1910-1911 it was office practice to file all letters sent out from the Private Office in purely chronological order, letters received into the office were apparently separated into Butterfield & Swire and other correspondents for filing. The letters from the Hong Kong and Shanghai...

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Archive & Special Collections JSS/1/2 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1877-1956
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.1.2
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber JSS/1/2
callnumber_txt JSS/1/2
callnumber-sort JSS/1/2
scb_alt_ref_no JSSI 2
prefix_number 2
title John Swire and Sons Letters In: From Butterfield & Swire
scb_date_creation 1877-1956
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 32 boxes
format Archive
description Although up to 1910-1911 it was office practice to file all letters sent out from the Private Office in purely chronological order, letters received into the office were apparently separated into Butterfield & Swire and other correspondents for filing. The letters from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Offices were usually kept in separate bundles and were not usually bound but filed and then boxed. They include both official correspondence from Butterfield & Swire to John Swire & Sons and private letters from the heads of the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices to `The Senior'. Unofficial correspondence was not in fact encouraged and it is predominantly the Eastern Partners, Lang, Scott and Mackintosh who write personally to John S Swire; after their retirement from the East they were replaced by Eastern Managers (Bois, Wright and Mackay in Shanghai and Smith, Prate, Law, Robertson and Edkins in Hong Kong) who tended to use official correspondence.
scb_arrangement Arrangement The series of files has been arranged according to the B&S office from which it originated:Hong Kong (1877-1916) JSSI 2/1-14.Shanghai (1872-1916) JSSI 2/15-25.
scb_place_code 1861060
2077456
1819730
1814991
2643743
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
scb_use_restrictions Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids Paper handlist available
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSS
hierarchy_sequence JSS.001.002

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