Diary, 1907 - London, France and Essex

Family matters social and business engagements and continuous office work. JANUARY Problems with Germans over Shanghai-Nanking Railway loan; the loan itself oversubscribed; brother William preaching in Westminster Abbey. FEBRUARY Addis begins to learn French; at work, involved in proposed increase o...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 14/001/025 Open

Order number: PP MS 14, Box 3
Date(s) of creation: 1907
Level: File
Format: Archive           

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title Diary, 1907 - London, France and Essex
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description Family matters social and business engagements and continuous office work. JANUARY Problems with Germans over Shanghai-Nanking Railway loan; the loan itself oversubscribed; brother William preaching in Westminster Abbey. FEBRUARY Addis begins to learn French; at work, involved in proposed increase of bank note issue. MARCH New Japanese loan being taken up slowly; Addis to Foreign Office to discuss French participation in Hankow-Canton railway scheme; very tired. 'I am being ground up in the commercial machine.' 19 APRIL House hunting for summer holiday house in the Home Counties, successful Canton-Kowloon railway loan launched. MAY Very cold spring. JUNE To Paris for visit to the Banque de l'Indo-Chine; meetings with Bland, 'I hope our talk cleared the air a little.' 20. JULY With family to Slough House near Woodham Ferrers, Essex. OCTOBER With wife to Rouen and Paris for cycling, sightseeing and French speaking practice NOVEMBER Mrs Addis ill following miscarriage DECEMBER Attends Chinese Central Railways and British and Chinese Corporation (B&C Corp.). meeting about Chinese railway loans, 'He was alone in his opinion that they should not be teased by the "reforming"; Chinese, but should wait and have patience about those railways.' 12
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