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[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Two 'Letts' Diaries, 1922 and 1931, with detailed ms entries and loose letters, programmes, news cuttings and other items. Together with: Leaflet Treaty of peace (Sunday 6 July 1919); a humorous (1920's style) tiger hunting watercolour by FOH, (9 June 1922); a coloured sketch map of 'The Burma-China Highway – Burma Frontier to Kunming Section' by FOH (31 August 1939); MOI invitation to Hodgkinson's (of 2nd Burma Rifles) lecture at Heaton Electric Palace, Newcastle (26 November 1944); a photo of Richard Acland MP's letter of 21 March 1945 praising FOH's presentation of his Burma films; Government House Directory, New Delhi, 1st Nov 1947, showing Hodgkinson as Staff Officer in Cabinet Map Room, Military Emergency Staff; Official Christmas Greetings card, Viceroy's House, New Delhi (22 March 1947); personal Christmas card, with photo of Hodkinson filming in Kashmir (1949); pamphlet 'The Changing East', foreword to his film shows in the UK, ca 1950; a newspaper cutting from 'The Hants and Sussex News' (6 January 1954) describing Hodgkinson's forthcoming presentation of "The Changing East" at Petersfield Town Hall, with useful background about film he started making 15 years ago; "The Changing East", a film programme booklet by Frank Outram (Hodgkinson) for his 16mm colour films "Burma and Siam", "India" and "Kashmir" (n.d., but 1950s).
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[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Two 'Letts' Diaries, 1922 and 1931, with detailed ms entries and loose letters, programmes, news cuttings and other items. Together with: Leaflet Treaty of peace (Sunday 6 July 1919); a humorous (1920's style) tiger hunting watercolour by FOH, (9 June 1922); a coloured sketch map of 'The Burma-China Highway – Burma Frontier to Kunming Section' by FOH (31 August 1939); MOI invitation to Hodgkinson's (of 2nd Burma Rifles) lecture at Heaton Electric Palace, Newcastle (26 November 1944); a photo of Richard Acland MP's letter of 21 March 1945 praising FOH's presentation of his Burma films; Government House Directory, New Delhi, 1st Nov 1947, showing Hodgkinson as Staff Officer in Cabinet Map Room, Military Emergency Staff; Official Christmas Greetings card, Viceroy's House, New Delhi (22 March 1947); personal Christmas card, with photo of Hodkinson filming in Kashmir (1949); pamphlet 'The Changing East', foreword to his film shows in the UK, ca 1950; a newspaper cutting from 'The Hants and Sussex News' (6 January 1954) describing Hodgkinson's forthcoming presentation of "The Changing East" at Petersfield Town Hall, with useful background about film he started making 15 years ago; "The Changing East", a film programme booklet by Frank Outram (Hodgkinson) for his 16mm colour films "Burma and Siam", "India" and "Kashmir" (n.d., but 1950s).