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Ref NoLKE/OVR
TitleLKE Overseas
DescriptionPapers recording travel and personal contacts in China, the USSR, Africa; the Bahamas; Bhutan, Tibet, Sikkim; Burma; Canada; Ceylon; Iraq; Japan; Palestine; the Philippines; and the West Indies.The first two boxes relate to China and include correspondence from Hu Shih; Hsu Chih-mo (Xu Zhimo or Tsemou Hsu); Shu-hua Ling Chen; and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (May-ling Soong). Correspondence with organisations working on behalf of China include papers of the Anglo-Chinese Development Society Ltd of London, which was set up to assist the Chinese Industrial Co-operative movement, and of which Leonard Elmhirst was a board member from 1943-1946.

Boxes 3 and 4 contain papers relating to the USSR. There is correspondence with Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador referring to Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst's stay at the White House and discussing diplomatic relations between America and the USSR.

Box 5 relates to Africa; Bahamas; Bhutan, Tibet, Sikkim (in one folder); Burma; Canada; Ceylon; Iraq; Japan; Palestine; Philippines; and West Indies. The Palestine folders include correspondence with Dora Wollner who describes life on a farm settlement in Palestine (afterwards Israel).
Date1920-1973
FormatManuscript
Person_CodeDS/UK/876
DS/UK/875
DS/UK/885
DS/UK/886
DS/UK/1032
DS/UK/1034
Place_CodeNA489
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/876Hu; Shih (1891-1962); philosopher1891-1962
DS/UK/875Xu; Zhimo (1896-1931); poet1896-1931
DS/UK/885Ling Chen; Shu-hua (1904-1990)1904-1990
DS/UK/886Chiang; May-ling Soong (1897-2003)1897-2003
DS/UK/1032Anglo-Chinese Development Society Ltd; 1942-19471942-1947
DS/UK/1034Maisky; Ivan (1884-1975)1884-1975
Places
CodeSet
NA489China
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