Butterfield and Swire Accounts Letters

Series of correspondence files for 1903-54 dealing with the making up of the accounts of the firm in Hong Kong and Shanghai and with financial matters in general. The letters particularly concern staff accounts including salaries and tax and after 1945 the complications arising from interned staff a...

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Date(s) of creation: 1903-1954
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.2.5
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber JSS/2/5
callnumber_txt JSS/2/5
callnumber-sort JSS/2/5
scb_alt_ref_no JSSII 5
prefix_number 5
title Butterfield and Swire Accounts Letters
scb_date_creation 1903-1954
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 20 boxes; 17 files
format Archive
description Series of correspondence files for 1903-54 dealing with the making up of the accounts of the firm in Hong Kong and Shanghai and with financial matters in general. The letters particularly concern staff accounts including salaries and tax and after 1945 the complications arising from interned staff and loss of possessions etc. and in the post war period also the problems of the inflation in Shanghai and Hong Kong and its effect on salaries in particular
scb_related_name_code GB/NNAF/C215949
scb_place_code 1861060
2077456
1819730
1814991
1269750
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.002.005