Semi-official correspondence of Sydney, 1963-1974
Scope and Contents
Copies of semi-official correspondence of G.R.B. Patterson, Resident Representative in Australia and New Zealand of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd, Jardine Waugh Ltd and the Jardine Engineering Corporation Ltd (April 1963-July 1964), and Jardine, Matheson & Co. (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sydney (from July 1964), with Jardine Waugh Ltd/Jardine, Matheson & Co. (S.E.A.) Ltd, Bangkok; Jardine Matheson, Jakarta; Matheson & Co. Ltd, London; Jardine Matheson Inc., San Francisco; Jardine, Matheson & Co. (Orient) Ltd, Seoul; Jardine Waugh Ltd/Jardine Matheson Holdings (S.E.A.) Ltd, Singapore; Hunts Holdings Ltd/Stinsons Group Companies/Jardine, Matheson & Co. (Fiji) Ltd, Suva; Jardine Matheson, Taipei; and Jardine, Matheson & Co. (Japan) Ltd, Tokyo, with enclosed letters and papers. The final volume also includes some semi-official correspondence between Suva and London and Tokyo.
The correspondents are C. Baker, M.G. Barrow, Boon Yoon Chiang, J.J.G. Brown, Melvin Chan, Chan U Seek, J.G. Curtis, W.G.P. Davies, B. Dickinson, D.C. le F. Edwards, N.T. Edwards, G. Ellis, A.M. Fisher, H. Flint, R.V. Friend, I.F.H. Grant, S.R. Hawke, M.A.R. Herries, J.A. Heywood, F.M.V. Johnstone, J.H. Keswick, S.L. Keswick, W.J. Keswick, M.P. Keyes, D.W.N. Landale, L.E.C. Letts, E.A. Lowe, A. McCallum, G.J. McKenzie, D.D.B. McLeod, G.Y. Matsumura, D.S. Middleditch, R.D.P. Michell, D.B. Nelson, L. Norris, K. Osborne, G.R.B. Patterson, R.B. Polk, A. Reid, J. Rogers, A.W. Russell, J.M. Spence, P.J.B. Stinson and D.R. Watts.
Dates
- Creation: 1963-1974
Creator
- From the Fonds: Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson & Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_permission_form.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
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Extent
12 volume(s) (12 volumes)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
J1/169/1-7 were received from Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, 26 November 2014; J1/169/8-12 were received from Matheson & Co. Ltd, 22 August 2017.
Subject
- Baker, Christopher, b 1945 (Person)
- Barrow, Martin Gilbert, b 1944 (businessman) (Person)
- Chiang, Boon Yoon, b 1935 (businessman) (Person)
- Brown, Jeremy John Galbraith, 1933-2022 (businessman) (Person)
- Chan, Onn Yip, b 1930 (Person)
- Chan, U Seek, 1925-2009 (businessman) (Person)
- Curtis, John Gilbert, b 1932 (Person)
- Davies, Wilfred George Philip, b 1921 (Person)
- Dickinson, Brian, b 1931 (businessman) (Person)
- Edwards, David Corbett le Fowne, b 1939 (businessman) (Person)
- Edwards, Nigel Treloar, b 1941 (shipping agent) (Person)
- Ellis, Geoffrey, 1924-1979 (businessman) (Person)
- Fisher, Alan Maxwell, 1922-1972 (businessman) (Person)
- Flint, Hugh, b 1895 (businessman) (Person)
- Friend, Robert Vernon, b 1941 (businessman) (Person)
- Grant, Ian Faulconer Heathcoat, 1939-2000 (businessman) (Person)
- Hawke, Stanley Robert, 1914-1976 (businessman) (Person)
- Herries, Michael Alexander Robert Young-, 1923-1995 (Knight, businessman) (Person)
- Heywood, John Axson, b 1937 (businessman) (Person)
- Johnstone, Fitzroy Montague Veitch, b 1922 (businessman) (Person)
- Keswick, Sir John Henry, 1906-1982 (Knight, businessman) (Person)
- Keswick, Simon Lindley, b 1942 (businessman) (Person)
- Keswick, Sir William Johnstone, 1903-1990 (Knight, businessman) (Person)
- Keyes, Michael Patton, 1921-2009 (businessman) (Person)
- Landale, Sir David William Neil, 1934-2016 (Knight, businessman) (Person)
- Letts, Lionel Edgar Charles, 1918-2013 (businessman) (Person)
- Lowe, Eric Arthur, b 1918 (Person)
- McCallum, Alexander, b 1929 (Person)
- McKenzie, Gary John, b 1931 (Person)
- McLeod, David Dunlop Bentley, b 1932 (businessman) (Person)
- Matsumura, George Yukio, b 1913 (Person)
- Middleditch, David Seton, 1923-1992 (businessman) (Person)
- Michell, Rodney Drake Palmer, b 1943 (businessman) (Person)
- Nelson, Douglas Charles Berkeley, b 1917 (businessman) (Person)
- Norris, Leslie, b 1907 (businessman) (Person)
- Patterson, George R B, fl 1920-1976 (businessman and trade commissioner) (Person)
- Polk, Robert Brand, b 1944 (Person)
- Reid, Alan, 1911-1993 (businessman) (Person)
- Russell, Andrew W, b 1939 (Person)
- Spence, John Myers, 1943-1985 (Person)
- Watts, Donald Rickard, 1918-2011 (businessman) (Person)
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