The Hon. Editor of Man, W.B. Fagg, arranged for Christmas cards to be available to Fellows from 1953 to 1962; most of them were reproductions of plates that had already appeared in Man. The only reference to cards for 1954-5 is in a letter of 19 Sep. 1957 (see 99/3/10); there is no correspondence or cards for three years unless the card at 99/9/1 is for one of these years. There are two references to these cards in Council minutes, 8 Oct. and 5 Nov. 1953 both referring to the numbers of orders received, in the latter to 4236 orders with a print order of 4500 (CM/83/1-2, Items 7a and 1 respectively).
Abbreviations
WC William Clowes & Sons, Ltd, printers
WBF W.B. Fagg, CMG (1914-92), Hon. Editor of Man, 1939-65
1/ 1953
1 Draft notice of proposed Christmas card by WBF (autogr.)
2 Notice as circulated to Fellows inserted in Man, June issue (mimeo.)
3 Draft notice announcing ‘the response has been greater than was expected’ and giving details of rates by WBF (autogr.)
4 Notice (revised) as circulated to Fellows (mimeo.)
5 WBF’s draft (rough) instructions to the printer (autogr.)
6 WBF’s detailed instructions to the printer (autogr.)
7 WC to WBF, 30 Oct. – on complying with his instructions (tp.)
8 Card for 1953 – reproduction of the gold head from the palace of the Asantehene Kofi Kakari, now in the Wallace Collection, London
2/ 1956
1 Draft notice of proposed card by WBF (autogr.)
2 R.E. Hutchison, Keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery to WBF, 13 July – giving permission to use “Arab Princess” for card; suggests contacting owner, Earl of Buckinghamshire (tp.)
3 Earl of Buckinghamshire to WBF, 20 July – grants permission; gives background to picture (tp.)
4 R.E. Hutchison to WBF, 13 Sep. – encloses transcription of inscription on picture, see /2/5 below (tp.)
5 Transcription of inscription on picture (tp.)
6 WC to RAI, 1 Aug. – estimate for 3000 copies (tp.)
7 WC to WBF, 11 Oct. – will follow instructions (tp.)
8 WBF’s rough details (autogr.)
9 WBF’s rough draft for printer (autogr.)
10 WBF’s final draft for printer (autogr.)
11 Card for 1956 – reproduction of an ‘Arab Princess of Zanzibar of the early seventeenth century with her Negro maid’.
3/ 1957
1 WC to WBF, 3 Jan. – requests instructions on excess order of cards (tp.)
2 E. Allard to WBF, 12 Jan. – hopes he selects a design related to commemoration of Christmas day (autogr.)
3 Draft notice of proposed Christmas card by WBF (autogr.)
4 Draft notice by WBF of size and cost of card (autogr.)
5 WBF’s rough draft instructions to printer (autogr.)
6 WBF’s detailed final draft to printers (autogr.)
7 WC to WBF, 31 July – estimate of costs (tp.)
8 Ibid. – detailed breakdown of costs (tp.)
9 Ibid., 6 Sep. – schedule of production of cards (tp.)
10 RAI to WBF, 19 Sep. – gives details of back years’ cards and present quantities and costs (tp.)
11 WC to RAI, 13 Nov. – final estimates (tp.)
12 Card for 1957 – Mrs Brenda Seligman’s Benin ivory pectoral mask from Southern Nigeria
4/ 1958
1 RAI to WBF, 8 Sep. – gives previous years’ cards, their quantities and costs (tp.)
2 WBF’s draft notice of proposed card; verso, a draft notice to Man contributors of instructions during his absence in Nigeria 9 Oct. to 20 Apr. 1959 (autogr.)
3 WC to WBF, 8 Oct. – will follow instructions (tp.)
4 Ibid., 10 Nov. – estimate for over-printing cards (tp.)
5 Sample card for 1958 – ancient terra-cotta head from Ife, Nigeria
5/ 1959
1 WC to WBF, 26 Oct. – schedule of production (tp.)
2 Ibid., 27 Oct. – ibid. (tp.)
3 Sample card for 1959 – ‘The Snowman’ discovered in a Tibetan book by Prof. Emmanuel Vlcek
6/ 1960
1 WC to RAI, 4 Aug. – estimate for 3000 cards (tp.)
2 H.E. Wadsworth to WBF, 22 Aug. – hopes for better colour reproduction (autogr.)
3 WBF’s draft description of card (autogr.)
4 Sample card with amendments by WBF (autogr.)
5 Suggested card from Dr Marion W. Smith; page proof from Man
7/ 1961
1 WC to WBF, 17 July – acknowledges instructions (tp.)
2 Sample description of card (printed)
3 Selected card – The Medicine Man, Marrngitmirri, of eastern Arhnem Land, Australia (pc.)
4 WBF’s draft of card’s caption (autogr.)
8/ 1962
1 Dr E.J. Lindgren to RAI, 6 Aug. – acknowledges request to use painting of her Ulan Bator violin; stipulates she must check the proposed ‘legend’ before publishing (tp.)
2 Sample print of painting
3 Ibid., of wording
4 Description of Khalkha Mongol Fiddle from Ulan Bator by Mrs Jean Lynn Jenkins, Horniman Museum (tp.)
5 Proof of card in colour
6 Note on price of cards; profit to go to the Endowment Fund
9/1 Sample card; year not known
