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SOAS Archive
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id |
JSS.1.9.10.2.4
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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 3156
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callnumber |
JSS/1/9/10/2/4
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callnumber_txt |
JSS/1/9/10/2/4
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callnumber-sort |
JSS/1/9/10/2/4
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prefix_number |
4
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title |
Letter to JR [Masson] from Norman Young at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong
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scb_date_creation |
16 Oct 1935
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scb_level |
Item
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level_sort |
8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
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scb_extent |
1
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format |
Archive
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description |
'You must be enjoying a car again. I feel almost as if I had given you one.
They used to call the National Liberal Club in London the Giants' Urinal (& may still for all I know): I was reminded of this every time I looked out of the windows of the room in the Cathay where Hall Patch[?] & Rogers were working, so renewing my gratitude to you for so much more pleasant an outlook.
I regretted having to travel in the P Taft [SS PRESIDENT TAFT]: her decks were dirty; her ventilation like the inside of a torpedo; the [illegible] not as good as the EMPRESS; and the service bad. An Australian fellow-passenger, concerning the above, added "And if anything happened, they would want to save your life as much as any other line: but I personally very much doubt if they would be able to." But the defection of Phillips gave me a two-berth cabin to myself, & I had some fun explaining to the cabin steward on his rare appearances that Ping Sam was not a fellow-passenger, but my servant; & that what he ordered was for me not him. All this page is meant to be news, not a complaint (whatever internal evidence may suggest): don't repeat any to your friend, who looked me up on board before going back ashore, & whose feelings I do not want to hurt.
The parting of Ping Sam & your household on the steps was a good sight: I in the car felt like a bird-watcher in a hide.
The Southorns have just left the hospital & gone up to Mountain Lodge: meanwhile NL Smith, who remains OAG till Southorn takes over in a fortnight, renewed his previous invitation to me to come and stay at Govt House. This time I accepted, partly because the Cluib had had to move me to a smaller room, & am writing from there now.
I am told that eighty-five magnums of champagne were consumed at the opening ceremony of the new HK&S head office, & even if someone has converted bottles in magnums or otherwise embellished I do not much regret not having participated.
Thank you again very much. I shall be unhappy if you do not squeeze out of your next leave at least a few days to visit Berkshire - or perhaps if you really find London intolerable, St Enodoc - with me.
Yours ever
Norman Young
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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.
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language |
English
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language_search |
English
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scb_scripts_material |
Latin
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hierarchy_top_id_raw |
JSS
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hierarchy_sequence |
JSS.001.009.0010.002.004
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