Janus: Commonwealth miscellanea

RCS/RCMS 22 contains:
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11	A gold standard for the Empire
12	R.C.S. Biography catalogue acknowledgements
13	Letter from the 4th Marquess of Salisbury to Sir Drummond Shiels
14	Greater Britain
15	Australian hospital souvenirs
16	Letters on the founding of 'United empire'
17	Visits to Siberia
18	Visit to Russia and Central Asia
19	Poems by Sir Harry Wilson
20	The colonial producer
21	Draft memorial regarding the Act for the relief of American Loyalists
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Commonwealth miscellanea

Title	Letters on the founding of 'United empire'
Reference	RCMS 22/16 (former reference: MSS 11)
Creator	Royal Colonial Institute
Covering Dates	1909–1911
Extent and Medium	1 folder (21 letters); paper; Mixed scripts

Content and context

'United empire' was the journal of the Royal Colonial Institute.

Letters, mostly in reply to requests, welcoming the appearance of the new journal.

Presented by Mrs Ethel Colquhon (later Mrs Tawse Jollie), 1916, widow of Archibald Ross Colquhon (1848-1914), first editor of 'United empire'.

Further information

Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), pp. 36-37. Indexed

Extracts from some of the letters appear with eight other messages in 'Greetings' in 'United empire', vol. I (1910), pp. 4-7.

Index Terms

Royal Colonial Institute

RCS/RCMS 22/16 contains:

Letter from Marquess Curzon.
3 pages.

20 Nov. 1909

Letter from Lord Northcotte.
3 pages.

22 Nov. 1909

Letter from John Seely.
1 page.

23 Nov. 1909

Letter from Benjamin Kidd.
1 page.

24 Nov. 1909

Letter from Sir Neville Lyttelton.
2 pages.

24 Nov. 1909

Letter from Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff.
2 pages.

24 Nov. 1909

Letter from Earl Brassey.
1 page.

25 Nov. 1909

Letter from Earl Roberts.
1 page.

26 Nov. 1909

Letter from Duke of Argyll.
2 pages.

29 Nov. 1909

Letter from Sir George Goldie.
4 pages.

4 Dec. 1909

Letter from Marquess of Crewe.
2 pages.

5 Dec. 1909

Letter from Baron Ampthill.
2 pages.

8 Dec. 1909

Letter from Alfred Lyttelton.
1 page.

9 Dec. 1909

Letter from Earl of Elgin.
3 pages.

10 Dec. 1909

Letter from Earl of Rosebery.
1 page.

12 Dec. 1909

Letter from Lord Reay.
2 pages.

15 Dec. 1909

Letter from Maharajah of Cooch Behar.
2 pages.

19 Dec. 1909

Letter from Baron Strathcona.
1 page.

Dec. 1909

Letter from Sir Frederick Young.
3 pages.

12 Oct. 1910

Letter from Alfred Deakin.
3 pages.

22 Feb. 1911

Letter from Frederick Selous. Undated.
2 pages.