Three Autograph Letters Signed, Three Typed Letters Signed, to Sir Harry Lindsay and C. Buchanan-Dunlop of the Royal Society of Arts, together with three carbons of replies and a newspaper cutting.

English educationalist (born 1900) and authority on West Africa. Various formats from 12mo to quarto. Very good. Some items stamped or docketed. Mainly relates to a lecture to the Society by Ward, provisionally entitled 'Mass education in the colonies'. Letter of 1 November 1948: 'I am leaving for Beirut in a fortnight to attend the UNESCO conference, and am straining to get the next issue of 'Overseas Education' off to the press before I go. I have hopes moreover of printing the paper I have promised you for January; I do not want it to stand over until my return from Beirut a few days before Christmas.' 16 December 1948: 'In view of the facts that we are rather keen on emphasising that mass education is not a specifically Colonial problem, and that some of the best illustrative examples are to be found astride British Colonies, notably in Mexico, I have dropped the words "in the Colonies" from the title'. All six letters signed 'W. E. F. Ward'. Cutting from Times Educational Supplement, 22 January 1949, reviewing Ward's talk.