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Photocopy of letter dated 11 May 1913 From P....(?), Regent Parade, Harrogate to WS Ridge regarding the purchase of photographic equipment and including a copy of a letter from 'Houghton' (2 ff.) Photocopy of letter dated 9 Sep 1930 from W S Ridge (Eltham, London) to 'Dear Everybody' describing his and his wife's journey from Peking to London via the trans-Siberian Railway (32 pp.) Photocopy of letter dated 1 Sep 1933 from W S Ridge to 'Dear Everybody' describing events in China during the months after the Japanese seizure of Mukden (12 pp.) Photocopy of letter dated 27 Aug 1934 from Annie Butcher, Larson's Temple, Chaghan Kurian Sumu, Inner Mongolia to 'My Dearest Ones' (3 ff.) Photocopy of letter dated 30 May 1941 from John D. Hayes, College of Chinese Studies, Peking to WS Ridge on the occasion of his completing 25 years as Lecturer (3 ff.) Photocopy of WS Ridge's Certificate of Doctor of Literature from the California College in China, 5 April 1942 (1 f.). Copy of mss. obituary of William Sheldon Ridge (d. 1945) n.d. (2 ff.) Photocopy of letter dated 26 Jul 1946 from the Foreign Office, London to the British Consulate, Peking, regarding WS Ridge's financial indebtedness on his death (1 f.) Photocopy of letter dated 20 April 1948 from T S Outerbridge, Secretary British United Aid to China to Mrs Frances Ridge regarding the purchase of the Sheldon Ridge Library and presentation to Yenching University, Peiping (2 pp.) Photocopy of edited tss. of a single page of letter, possibly by Mrs Ridge, n.d. (1 f.) Photocopy of 'Glimpses into the Past', tss. copy of lecture by WS Sheldon, n.d. (14 pp.)
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