| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
JSS.2.7.4.55.04
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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 |
FILE CLOSED JSS Box 2909
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| callnumber |
JSS/2/7/4/55/04
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| callnumber_txt |
JSS/2/7/4/55/04
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| callnumber-sort |
JSS/2/7/4/55/04
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| scb_alt_ref_no |
JSSII 7/4/55/4
|
| prefix_number |
04
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| scb_previous_numbers |
Staff Letters No. 46
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| title |
From India
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| scb_date_creation |
1941-1943
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| scb_level |
File
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| level_sort |
7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
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| scb_extent |
1 folder
|
| format |
Archive
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| description |
Letters to John Swire and Sons London office from Butterfield & Swire India following the evacuation and internment of Butterfield and Swire staff in China. File includes; letters addressed care of Shaw, Wallace and Company agents for China Navigation Company in India; establishing an office in Calcutta (Kolkata); staff salaries and allotments; conscription; staff arrangments and transfers; proposed 'kidnap' of Butterfield & Swire staff in Shanghai; Calcutta vs Bombay as an office location; print of Calcutta street scene [outside Shaw Wallace & Company]; salaries and allowances; list of staff in Hong Kong Volunteers; retiring staff; Provident Fund; transfer of office from Calcutta to Bombay (Mumbai); cost of living in India; interned staff; inflation and rise in cost of living in Chungking (Chonqing); income tax rates; plans for staff home leave after the war; accommodation in Bombay (Mumbai).
File includes name and subject index for letters.
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| scb_access_status |
Closed
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| scb_closed_until |
01/01/2024
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| scb_conditions_gov_access |
File closed under Data Protection Act until 1st January 2024
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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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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
JSS
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| hierarchy_sequence |
JSS.002.007.004.0055.0004
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