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Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence and other documents relating to the wartime degrees granted to students to fled Hong Kong during World War II to continue their studies in Free China. There are also some papers relating to general HKU and Faculty of Medicine business, as well as photographs of King and his family. All the documents are mainly related to Faculty of Medicine of HKU during war time (including their placements, further studies, graduation as well as...

Content Description This collection contains 53 letters from John Gerald Heath Lander to his wife Betty written in 1941. At the time John was in Hong Kong and Kathleen Elizabeth Francis Lander (Betty) was in the Philippines. Also included is one CD that contains scanned copies of the letters as well as a background on the letters and the Lander family. The letters mostly contain day to day information about family members, colleagues at Shell, and other British people in Hong Kong at the time. Overall Lander's...