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Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.

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An album of small photographs, mostly stuck in but with 22 loose. There are rather sketchy captions.

1-278 and 283 are of Egypt and the Sudan including the Sennar (Makwar) Dam and the Kor Arbaat project, 279 of Venice and 280-282 of Germany.

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Mainly photographs of official and social events.

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Also includes a packet of small photographs, from [?] a royal visit to Germany by King Edward VII aboard the royal yacht HMY Victoria and Albert.

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Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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Pamphlets, conference papers, articles and correspondence with historians on subjects including: the effect of the German-Soviet Treaty of 1970; Germany's Ostpolitik; Stalin; 20 years of NATO; the Anglo-Portuguese alliance; the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; Britain's entry into the European Economic Community.

Scope and Contents Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...

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Subjects include: Moscow [Soviet Union], 1945, particularly relating to VE Day; the Pax Atlantica; encounters with Khrushchev; NATO over 40 years; FR's life and career; the post-war transformation of Anglo-German relations; the Berlin crises, 1948-9 and 1959-61; Germany and the community of nations; the Yalta Conference, 1945; Anglo-Polish relations during the war.

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Photographs from the Cape Flight, 1920; Belgium, France, Zurich, Surrey and Wales, 1920; R36, 1921; Jersey, 1921; Scotland, 1922; Amsterdam and Berlin, 1923; the King's Cup, 1923; Gothenburg, 1923; and Spitsbergen, 1924. Photographs 1-3, 65, 72, 82, 149 and 241 are housed in separate clear plastic sleeves.

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106 x 82 mm.

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Draft papers and correspondence on the boundary between eastern Germany and Poland.

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Subjects include: sources of information from Germany; concerns about the terms imposed upon Germany.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection includes personal documents and honours (PJGG 1); general correspondence (PJGG 2 and 12); material relating to India including finance papers (PJGG 3), political papers (federation and defence) (PJGG 4), miscellaneous reports (PJGG 5), War Office papers about India (PJGG 8); Lady Grigg's correspondence (PJGG 6 and 7); War Office correspondence (PJGG 9); Committee papers (PJGG 10); literary material (PJGG 13-15).Perhaps the most interesting papers are those...