Typed Testimonial Signed ('M. L. Jacks') from Maurice Leonard Jacks, headmaster Mill Hill School, for H. Clarence Whaite, on his application for the post of HM Inspector of Art

Whaite was first cousin twice removed of his more famous namesake. He was himself an excellent artist and teacher, and there is a large collection of his work at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. 2pp., 8vo. In good condition, on lightly aged and creased paper. The testimonial begins: 'Mr. H. C. Whaite has been on my Staff as visiting Art Master since January 1929, and I am very glad to write in support of his application for an Inspectorship of Art. Mr. Whaite has had wide experience of Art teaching, and has done remarkably successful work here with boys of 14 to 18 years of age. [...] I have been constantly struck by the excellent work that has been done, under Mr. Whaite's tuition, by boys of no particular artistic gifts; he has always encouraged them to express themselves freely, with remarkable results [...] his own methods seem to me essentially wise, and well-balanced'. With 'exact copy' in HCW's autograph, 1p., 8vo. At the foot Whaite has written: 'now Director of Education in Oxford'. From the Whaite papers.