Twenty-eight Typed Letters Signed, seventeen Autograph Letters Signed, etc, to K. W. Luckhurst, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, and others.

British businessman (1872-1955), chairman of the Medici Society Ltd, chairman and managing director of Henry Stone & Son Ltd, printers. Very good. Mostly octavo, with a few quarto and 12mo. Some bearing the Society's stamp and others docketed. Occasional rust marks from paperclips. Mainly concerned with the day-to-day activities of the Royal Society of Arts, of which Milne was a prominent member, around the time of the Second World War. On 7 September 1939: 'I hardly anticipate that you are likely to have trouble in regard to occupation of the premises. I note you say that all the staff are at Buxted. Does this mean we are keeping all the staff, and is there really enough for them to do. [...] We naturally want to be fair to all concerned, but in the circumstances there are surely some of the younger ones that could be dispensed with, and I take it that in any case the Printing Department will be completely closed, with the exception of Nickolls, as there is now no work for them to do. | I quite agree that Mr. Ionides should be invited to act on the Emergency Committee.' 25 September 1939: 'Cole, who has written to you, is a man who runs a designing studio, and no doubt at the moment he is rather 'up against it'.' Features two-page quarto account of Henry Stone & Son: '[...] Mention might also be made of Sir Leonard Woolley's "Ur of the Chaldees" and the monumental work - "A Survey of Persian Art", edited by Dr. Upham Pope, Laurence Binyon, Sir Dennis Ross, etc., as well as work carried out for the British Museum and many other Museums, Galleries, learned Societies and Institutions. Many of these publications were produced in official collaboration with the Oxford University Press.'