Six Typed Letters and Notes Signed 'Cecil Harcourt Smith' (Director, V & A) to Sir Henry Truman, Royal Society of Arts. With additional copy letter from Somers Clarke.

Total (Smith letters) 7pp., 8vo, RSA stamp on all, good condition. Subjects: (1917) letter from a Mr. W. Foxton; a word with a Mr. Kendrick about judging; reception of parcels for the Owen Jones Competition; (1918) measures taken because of possible increase of risk from attack by hostile aircraft; need for the RSA to take back some works deposited by them to make room in the basement for withdrawals from exhibition (pencil note attached about the deposit); arrangements for Mr. Davenport with regard to the Owen Jones Competition; (1919) discussion of the Somers Clarke letter, agreeing with him that these vague competitions for indefinite objects have been apt to do more harm than good, particualrly in connection with the industrial arts; comment on the obsession of the easel and the fact that a student from the North of England might not want to come to London for a competition. Somers Clarke's copy letter, Mahamid, Upper Egypt, 19 Dec. 1918, 4pp., 8vo, commenting on the Owen Jones at length, its deleterious effects, the inadequacy of exhibiting environments, etc., with suggestions for more useful competitions.