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The Tan Cheng Lock Private Papers The Tan Cheng Lock Private Papers Folio No: TCL.015 Folio Title: Correspondence (1947, 1951-60) Content Description: Papers of the First National Convention (23 Aug 1953), Third National Convention (14 Feb 1954), UMNO Emergency General Assembly (14 Apr 1954); correspondence relating to the Emergency, the death of Sir Henry Gurney, reorganization of the MCA, activities of MCA branches and committees, Alliance election success in Perak, Singapore Constitutional Commission, award of SMN, etc. ITEM DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION ACCESS DOCUMENT CONTENT NO DATE STATUS STATUS TCL.015.001- Undated 3 cards. Digitized Open 003 TCL.015.004- Undated Fragments of letters. Omitted from filming. Digitized Open 007 TCL.015.008 Undated Speech re: the MCA. Badly damaged. Digitized Open "Broadcast by Sir Cheng-Lock Tan to the American TCL.015.009 Undated Digitized Open Public". Reprinted in TCL.026.014. "Ways in Which the Public Can Help to End the TCL.015.010 Undated Digitized Open Emergency". TCL.015.011- Undated Ms Miscellaneous notes. Digitized Open 012 TCL.015.013 Undated Notes re: Home Guards and Chinese Affairs Officers. Digitized Open Letter in Chinese to Tunku through TCL. Text TCL.015.014 Undated Digitized Open somewhat garbled. Correspondence and papers pertaining to TCL.015.015- distribution of TCL's Malayan Problems: From a 1947 - 1951 Digitized Open 047 Chinese Point of View. Singapore, 1947. Many of the documents are badly damaged. TCL's speech at the inaugural meeting of MCA Malacca Branch. Reprinted from the Straits Echo & TCL.015.048 12/3/1949 Digitized Open Times of Malaya. See also TCL.026.006-006a and TCL.026.020. 1 of 17 The Tan Cheng Lock Private Papers ITEM DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION ACCESS DOCUMENT CONTENT NO DATE STATUS STATUS Proceedings of the 2nd annual general meeting of TCL.015.049- 20/7/1951 the Cheng Hoon Teng Temple. 2 copies. See also Digitized Open 049a TCL.026.012. Notice of the 14th meeting of the MCA Working TCL.015.050 16/9/1951 Digitized Open Committee. TCL.015.051 16/9/1951 Minutes of the above meeting. Damaged. Digitized Open TCL.015.051a Undated TCL's notes for above. Digitized Open TCL.015.051b-c Undated TCL's notes for above. 2 copies. Digitized Open Letter from Sir Henry Gurney inviting TCL and TCL.015.051d 5/10/1951 Digitized Open colleagues to a meeting. Notice of an MCA Reorganization Committee TCL.015.052 6/11/1951 Digitized Open meeting. Letter to Yap Mau Tatt enclosing letter to Yong TCL.015.052a 6/11/1951 Shook Lin re: interview with Oliver Lyttleton, Digitized Open Secretary of State for the Colonies. Letter to Yong Shook Lin enclosing memorandum on TCL.015.052b 10/11/1951 Digitized Open MCA reorganization. Letter to E. Newton, USIS, re: USIS assistance to MCA TCL.015.053 20/9/1951 Digitized Open publicity programme. Damaged. TCL.015.053a Undated Notes re: MCA publicity. Digitized Open TCL.015.053b 4/10/1951 Typed copy of the above. Digitized Open Letter from a member of the Negri Sembilan Branch, TCL.015.054 29/9/1951 Digitized Open re: organization of MCA. Signature illegible. TCL.015.055 2/10/1951 Memorandum by Ho Pao Jin on the role of the MCA. Digitized Open TCL.015.055a Undated Retyped copy of above. Digitized Open 2 of 17 The Tan Cheng Lock Private Papers ITEM DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION ACCESS DOCUMENT CONTENT NO DATE STATUS STATUS TCL.015.056 4/10/1951 List of 16 MCA members. Digitized Open Letter, probably to above members, re: a meeting TCL.015.056a 4/10/1951 with Gurney on 28 Oct 1951 at King's House. See Digitized Open also TCL.009.032-032b. Letter to the same, confirming above meeting in spite of Gurney's death but with Malcolm TCL.015.056b 19/10/1951 Digitized Open MacDonald instead, and arranging pre-meeting in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur. TCL.015.056c 19/10/1951 Letter to Yong Shook Lin re: the same. Digitized Open TCL.015.056d Undated Duplicate copy of TCL.015.055a. Digitized Open Text of a telegram of condolence sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies re: Gurney's TCL.015.057 Undated Digitized Open death and re-affirming the loyalty of Malayan Chinese. Letter from Michael Hogan, Officer Administering TCL.015.058 12/10/1951 Digitized Open the Government, thanking TCL for the above. Letter from Hogan transmitting reply from the TCL.015.058a 12/10/1951 Digitized Open Secretary of State. Typed copy of "A note in the handwriting of the late Sir Henry Gurney recently found among his private TCL.015.059 19/11/1951 papers and known to have been written two days Digitized Open before his death". See also TCL.024.004 and TCL.026.007. Letter from R.P. Bingham, Secretary for Chinese TCL.015.060 13/10/1951 Affairs, confirming meeting at King's House on 28 Digitized Open Oct 1951. "Memorandum on the Organization of the MCA", by TCL.015.061 28/10/1951 Digitized Open TCL. See also TCL.014.034. TCL.015.062 31/10/1951 Letter to Hogan replying to TCL.015.058a. Digitized Open 3 of 17 The Tan Cheng Lock Private Papers ITEM DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION ACCESS DOCUMENT CONTENT NO DATE STATUS STATUS Notice of an MCA Reorganization Standing TCL.015.063 31/10/1951 Digitized Open Committee meeting. TCL.015.064 23/11/1951 Letter from Leong Yew Koh re: MCA matters. Digitized Open Letter from Leong Yew Koh re: MCA and its role in TCL.015.064a 15/10/1951 Digitized Open the Emergency. Badly damaged. Unsigned letter from Leong Yew Koh to Khoo Teik TCL.015.064b 14/10/1951 Ee, Chairman, MCA Sweeps Committee re: members' Digitized Open expenses. Badly damaged. Letter probably by TCL to Officer Administering the TCL.015.064c 15/11/1951 Government re: use of Chinese forces in the Digitized Open Emergency. Badly damaged. TCL.015.064d 20/10/1951 Letter to Leong Yew Koh replying to TCL.015.064a. Digitized Open Letter from Leong Yew Koh re: Federation of Malaya TCL.015.064e 22/9/1951 Digitized Open Agreement and the rule of law. "The Reorganization of the Malayan Chinese TCL.015.065 13/1/1952 Association, 1952", by TCL. See also TCL.005.243- Digitized Open 243g, TCL.011.011c-d and TCL.020.026. Translation of an anonymous letter from a member TCL.015.066 25/1/1953 Digitized Open re: role of MCA. Notice of an extraordinary general meeting of the TCL.015.067 5/2/1953 Digitized Open Cheng Hoon Teng Temple. Letter from Wong Shee Fun, President, MCA Johor TCL.015.068 6/6/1953 Branch, to the Hon. Secretary-General, MCA, re: Digitized Open welfare grants with lists of applications. Letter from Mohd. bin Abdul Rahman to the Hon. TCL.015.069 26/10/1953 Secretary-General, MCA, reporting on work of MCA- Digitized Open UMNO Liaison Committees. Incomplete. TCL.015.070 Undated Proposed agenda. Digitized Open 4 of 17 The Tan Cheng Lock Private Papers ITEM DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION ACCESS DOCUMENT CONTENT NO DATE STATUS STATUS TCL.015.070a Undated Unknown Draft resolutions. Digitized Open TCL.015.071 Undated Proposed agenda a fuller version. Digitized Open TCL.015.072 Undated Extract from some minutes re: agenda. Digitized Open TCL.015.073 Undated List of participants. Digitized Open TCL.015.074 Undated Agenda. In Malay and Chinese. Digitized Open Rules and orders of the National Convention. In TCL.015.075 Undated Digitized Open English and Malay. Opening address by Tunku Abdul Rahman. In Malay, TCL.015.076 Undated Digitized Open English and Chinese. Speech by Ismail bin Abdul Rahman. In Malay, TCL.015.077 Undated Digitized Open English and Chinese. Speech by Dato' Abdul Razak bin Hussein. In Malay, TCL.015.078 Undated Digitized Open English and Chinese. TCL.015.079 Undated Speech by H.S. Lee. In Malay, English and Chinese. Digitized Open Letter by Leong Yew Koh to Chief Executive TCL.015.080 27/10/1953 Digitized Open Secretary, MCA, re: MCA matters. Badly damaged. TCL.015.081 Undated Envelope of letter from K.H. Hwang. Digitized Open Letter from John C. Wong enclosing a press cutting TCL.015.081a 29/10/1953 of his talk on Malayan political trends to a Rotary Digitized Open Club in the USA. TCL.015.081b 24/10/1953 Press cutting. Digitized Open TCL.015.081c 13/11/1953 Letter to John C. Wong replying to TCL.015.081a. Digitized Open Letter from S.A.E. Hogan-Shaidali asking for TCL.015.081d 4/9/1953 Digitized Open information re: MCA. 5 of 17 The Tan Cheng Lock Private Papers ITEM DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION ACCESS DOCUMENT CONTENT NO DATE STATUS STATUS TCL.015.081e 13/11/1953 Reply to Hogan-Shaidali's letter above. Digitized Open TCL.015.081f 21/11/1953 Letter from John C. Wong continuing TCL.015.081a. Digitized Open TCL.015.082 2/11/1953 Letter from T.H. Tan enclosing TCL.015.082a. Digitized Open Letter from F.P. Chatelain, Swiss Vice-Consul in TCL.015.082a 16/10/1953 Singapore, to Chief Executive Secretary, MCA, re: Digitized Open constitutional structure of Switzerland. Letter from R. Hoeppli, Swiss Consul in Singapore, re: TCL.015.082b 28/10/1953 Digitized Open Swiss nationality and enclosing TCL.015.082c. "The Fundamental Principles and Forms of TCL.015.082c Undated Representation of the People of the Swiss Digitized Open Confederation and the Swiss Cantons". Letter from T.H. Tan to Chatelain re: Swiss TCL.015.082d 23/10/1953 Digitized Open nationality.
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