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MS 677 03 09

Reference code

MS 677 03 09

Title

Frank Ashton-Gwatkin archive: Scrapbook

Level

Item

Date

1922-1924

Extent & medium

1 volume

Content description

Containing news cuttings mainly concerning the reaction to ‘Kimono’ and ‘Sayonara’ including the reception of the works in Japan; autograph and typed letters regarding ‘Kimono’ and the publication of ‘Sayonara’; reviews of 'Kimono', including reports that the book was being suppressed in Japan; photographs and postcards mainly relating to Japan; invitations and programmes to official dinners and other events

Particular items of interest include typed and autograph letters from:
p.4 Letters from Margaret Eden; Leonard Green and Arthur Lowther regarding reviews of his book
p.12 Letter from Joseph Conrad regarding ‘Kimono’
p. 13 Letter from Richard Curle regarding ‘Kimono’ and ‘Sayonara’
p.20 Letter from Joseph Conrad regarding his ill health
p. 22 Letters from A.C. Benson and Willoughby Gwatkin regarding ‘Sayonara’
p.22-25 handwritten review of ‘Kimono’
p.26 Letter from George Sanson regarding a Japanese cutting
p.29 Letter from A.C. Benson regarding Joseph Conrad
p.30-31 Letter from W.K. Flemming regarding ‘Sayonara’
p.37 Letters regarding a visit by the Prince of Wales to Tokyo
p.37 Letter from G.P. Collins regarding ‘Sayonara’
Letters and invitations reading various dinners
p.56 Letter from Lord Riddet
p.66-67 Letters and a programme for Lord Kilmarnock’s play, ‘The Collaborateurs’
p.61 Letters from Hubert Montgomery confirming his promotion to first secretary
p.70-71 Letter from J. Morrison regarding the possibility og publishing ‘Chinese Morrison’s diaries’

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A hand list detailing individual items is kept with the volume
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