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An original 3-page manuscript draft by world renowned author Evelyn Waugh (1903-66), a British writer regarded as the most brilliant satirical novelist. His most noteworthy novels include Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934) and the most popular Brideshead Revisited (1945). This signed manuscript is of an article subsequently published in the Spectator on 8th July 1955 entitled ‘Awake, my Soul! It is a Lord’.

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Single columns of 16 lines of Latin in gothic hand. Recto with five-line miniature of the winged Ox of St Luke marking the opening of a reading from his Gospel narrating the Annunciation ‘in that time the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth…’. Verso without any decoration.

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The Collection, comprising mainly photographs and private papers of his wife, Mrs Gwen Steele-Perkins. Materials include photographs (totalling 37), letters (152 sheets), bills and receipts (28 sheets) and miscellaneous items such as identity card, manuscript, newspaper clipping etc. covering the years 1908-1960 with bulks in the periods of 1930s and 1940s.

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Composed of minutes, letters, reports, financial statements, news clippings and photos relating to Chinese International School.

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Composed of collected maps, newspapers during Japanese Occupation, service badge and certificates, sworn statement to War Crimes commission, funeral programme book and other materials recounting the experience of Dr. Osler Thomas during the World War II and his later years.

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Composed of 17 books of Who's Who in the Administrative Service of HK Government/HKSAR, documents about Association of Members of HMOCS in Hong Kong and the AO Liaison Group, the Gordon Jones Collection reflects the career of Mr. Gordon Jones, former Registrar of Companies, as a civil servant of the Hong Kong Government and the HKSAR during 1990-2006.

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Composed of photographs, slides, negatives, and transparencies of Hong Kong’s major infrastructure projects taken by Heather Coulson.

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Includes JCS McDouall’s diaries from 1969 to 2007 plus supplementary notes, police books, clippings, letters and photos, recording his life in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and Freemasonry.

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The Lau Loi Papers is a gift donation from Mr Lau Loi, featuring a mini collection of documents and receipts evidencing he and his friends and family's daily life in the pre-Handover New Territories before 1997. The content list is available.

《劉來文件》由劉來先生所捐贈，此袖珍系列藏品包括文件及單據，印證其本人及親友在1997年回歸前的新界居住的日常生活。

Scope and Contents Lin Yu Lan (林友蘭) is a Chinese newspaperman based in Hong Kong. This archival and manuscript collection features a series of correspondence dated 1959-60 between Lin Yu Lan and fellow journalists and other acquaintance abroad in the English-speaking world sharing the same humanitarian concern about refugees in Hong Kong. It was a time when Hong Kong is still a small, poverty-stricken town on the southern coast of China under British colonial administration slowly recovering from the war. All...