Photocopy. TLS. Hetta [Empson] to William [Empson]
- Reference No:
- U DEN/6/141
- Dates:
- 20th cent
- Description:
- Alcohol; newspaper propaganda to destroy Communist elements in the schools; the forcible entry of Universities and Special Criminal Courts; Peita University and it’s students; breaking into Normal College; Yenching, Fu Jen, and Tsinghua; David Kidd [?] being reduced to eating a cabbage; the escape of wanted students known to the Empsons; press coverage of the events; Walter [Brown]; a list of professors being drawn up; Fu Tso Yi; the police chief Pai Shih Wei; the opening of the British Council school; production of the [John Boynton] Priestley play as Halliday joined the Industrial co-operatives; a poetry reading for the van der Sprenkels; [Wystan Hugh] Auden's poem about the Unknown citizen; the Harris's travel to Shanghai; Hetta meeting William at Taku; new servants; family news; Chin-ti applying for a British Council scholarship; the departure of the Harmans; the arrival of Buxton; the arrival of David Hawkes; and news from England
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
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Papers of Sir William Empson and Hetta, Lady Empson
