| Description | Surviving notes retained by Leonard Elmhirst while acting as temporary private secretary to Lionel Curtis in Oct 1917 at Naini Tal, United Provinces, India. Curtis' notes provide background information for the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919. Includes other Curtis letters and two manuscripts by Curtis. Also included is an article by Elmhirst 'Some Aspects of Education in Relation to the Montagu-Chelmsford Proposals' appearing in The Challenge, 11 Apr 1919. Other letters discuss rural education in India. There is a letter from John Dove of The Round Table. Also, letters about membership in the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Letters in 1930 discuss Curtis and China. |