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  <dc:title>Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Japanese Embassy</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Informs the Secretary that Captain [Sydney Harry] Batty-Smith was Hardy's pupil at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and is satisfied that Batty-Smith will prove a competent and trustworthy English teacher in the prepatory course to the Imperial Universities of the Japanese Government; not only is Batty-Smith capable, but 'he has an engaging personality'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>22 December 1924</dc:date>
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