Collection Record

letter, 16/11/1933, George Hill, Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum, London to The recipient is only addressed as "your Excellency", Instructed by the trustees of the British Museum to communicate in reply to the recipients letters to the Archbishop of Canterbury asking for assistance in improving the collections in the museums of Auckland and Dunedin. Details that the board thinks it best to keep a broad concentration of artifacts at the British Museum as it is the central point of the empire. But offers they want to assist in other means than sending original artifacts such as sending reproductions. And a note of objects that can be spared as duplicates