From Shanghai

Correspondence from Butterfield & Swire offices in Shanghai to John Swire and Sons London office concerning staff. Includes documents concerning; staff movements; salaries; staff appointments and recruitment; accommodation; staff health and illness; inspections and interportal visits; inflation...

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Order number: FILE CLOSED JSS Box 2915
Date(s) of creation: 1947
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.2.7.4.58.07
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with FILE CLOSED JSS Box 2915
callnumber JSS/2/7/4/58/07
callnumber_txt JSS/2/7/4/58/07
callnumber-sort JSS/2/7/4/58/07
scb_alt_ref_no JSSII 7/4/58/7
prefix_number 07
scb_previous_numbers Staff Letters No. 49
title From Shanghai
scb_date_creation 1947
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 1 folder
format Archive
description Correspondence from Butterfield & Swire offices in Shanghai to John Swire and Sons London office concerning staff. Includes documents concerning; staff movements; salaries; staff appointments and recruitment; accommodation; staff health and illness; inspections and interportal visits; inflation and high cost of living allowance; children's allowance; rehabilitation grants for Hong Kong internees and pre-war staff; entertaining costs and budgets including club memberships and summer holidays; discussions concerning proposed office in Formosa (Taiwan); staff agreement terms. See JSSII 7/4/57/6 for subject and name index for letters from Hong Kong and Shanghai.
scb_access_status Closed
scb_closed_until 01/01/2028
scb_conditions_gov_access File closed under Data Protection Act until 1st January 2028
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.
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSS
hierarchy_sequence JSS.002.007.004.0058.0007