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This collection includes personal files, materials generally related to education in Hong Kong, and materials related to Sweeting’s time as a professor the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of History at the University of Hong Kong. There are also files relating to research he did for several publications, including two volumes on the history of education in Hong Kong, and drafts for these works. These files are the bulk of the collection.

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A letter written on 01 May 1936 (民國二十五年五月一日) to Hsu Ti-Shan by 盧鴻恕 (Lu Hongshu, also known as 盧子防 Lu Zifang), asking Hsu to write a preface for Lu's book 注音廣州語(Cantonese Romanization). With letterhead "潮安縣立中學校用箋" (Chaoan Provincial Secondary School) and envelope printing "潮安縣立中學校緘 校址西湖" (Sealed by Chaoan Provincial Secondary School. School at Xihu)

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A letter written in Chinese by Tsui Siu-mei 徐少眉, manager of Ta Kung Book Co., to Chan Kwan-po, the then Fung Ping Shan librarian for borrowing 5 books which had been out-of-print, and promised to return them soon after use.

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A letter written by 肖雲, suspected to be Hsü Ti-Shan's eldest brother 許贊書 (Hsü Tsan-Shu), with a caligraphy of 40 words attached to the letter.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes personal files, materials generally related to education in Hong Kong, and materials related to Sweeting’s time as a professor the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of History at the University of Hong Kong. There are also files relating to research he did for several publications, including two volumes on the history of education in Hong Kong, and drafts for these works. These files are the bulk of the collection.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes personal files, materials generally related to education in Hong Kong, and materials related to Sweeting’s time as a professor the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of History at the University of Hong Kong. There are also files relating to research he did for several publications, including two volumes on the history of education in Hong Kong, and drafts for these works. These files are the bulk of the collection.

Scope and Contents With notes related to various topics such as fashion, 風水 (Fengshui), 廣東十三行 (Canton Factories), myths in ancient China, history of the Qin Dynasty with extract of "史記" ("Records of the Grand Historian"), social, cultural and economic history of China, the spread of Buddhism in China, notes on "唐代女子化裝 [妝]考" (Research on Women's Fashion in the Tang Dynesty, written by 原田淑人), "亞細亞北族" (Northern Races of Asia, suspected to be written by 白鳥庫吉) and draft of "近三百年來之中國女裝" (Woman Fashion in the Past...