Two Typed Letters Signed to [G. K. Menzies,] Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, together with unsigned carbon copy of 'Extract from a letter to Major Furse from Dr. A. C. Haddon, dated 15th December, 1925.'

British colonial administrator (1895-1948), High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya. One letter docketed and both bearing R.S.A. stamp. Both signed 'G E. J. Gent'. LETTER ONE (one page, quarto): Ormsby Gore has had forwarded to him a letter received by one of the Secretaries of State's Private Secretaries 'from Dr. A. C. Haddon, [Alfred Cort Haddon, 1855-1940; DNB] a Reader in Anthropology at Cambridge University', and thinks the R.S.A. may be interested in Haddon's proposal. This is outlined in the carbon copy (one page, folio): 'Prof. A. R. Brown [...] is coming to England for a very short time in February. He says - "I should like, if it were possible, to give a public lecture, (I assume in London) not to anthropologists on the subject of the need of anthropology in the British Empire, in other words, a missionary lecture to people whom it might be of use to persuade to help in the furthering of anthropological studies." | Brown got a Fellowship at Trinity Coll. Camb. for his field-work on the Anamanese [...] He has done important work among Australian aborigines, had a Govt. educational job in Tonga [...] and has just been elected to the new Professorship of Anthropology in Sydney.' LETTER TWO (one page, 12mo): 'Many thanks for your letter of yesterday, about Professor Brown. We will at once find out what dates in February would be possible for him to read his paper.'