File CCPP/ODELL/6/2 - Odell's Lecture Tour: Scandinavia 1959

1 file, paper

File containing:

(a) Letters from Hans Pettersson who mentions a visit by Prof Nakaya and makes arrangements to have dinner with Odell and his wife when he visits Sweden to lecture, 30 Mar 1956 - 20 Oct 1959

(b) Letter from Edwin Linkomies (Rector of the University of Helsinki) inviting Odell to lecture at the University of Helsinki on ‘any subject you choose within your own field’, 7 Oct 1959

(c) Report of a visit to the Arktisk Institut, Copenhagen, 10 April 1957 but A.M.S. [Miss Anne Savours – probably Ann Savours Shirley]

(d) Letter from Sir Douglas Busk in the British Embassy, Helsinki, asking if the soft evening dress collar size 15½ and two white handkerchiefs that had been left behind were his and if so offering to send them on

(e) Typed list of books about Finland, June 1958

(f) Letters from The British Council in London about an insurance claim made by Odell for the loss of slides on his return from Finland, Dec 1959 - Jan 1960

(g) Letter from The British Council in Helsinki forwarding a photograph as a souvenir of his visit to Kuopia and informing him that there had been a great upsurge of interest in mountaineering after his lecture and they were sending them the ‘conquest of Everest’ film to ‘carry on his good work’.
Colour photograph of the Finnish British Society, Kuopia after Odell’s lecture, 11 Nov 1959 showing Odell at a tea table with Miss Sheila Nolan (Teacher-Secretary) and Mrs Lindroos.

(h) Newspaper cutting from the Times 24 Oct 1959 concerning a statement made by the Russian deputy Prime Minister about the Soviet-Finnish agreement of friendship and cooperation

(i) List of British Council addresses in Finland, Sweden and Denmark annotated in pencil with the names of the Ambassadors

(j) Letter from Martin Blake the Cultural Attache and British Council Representative informing Odell that the Danish Geological Society had arranged for him to give his New Zealand specialist lecture in the Mineralogical Museum in Copenhagen. Annotated in pencil by Odell, 9 Nov 1959

(k) British Council – Programme for N.E. Odell’s visit to Finland 1-15 Nov 1959. Annotated by Odell

(l) British Council - Programme for N.E. Odell’s visit to Sweden, 15-20 Nov 1959

(m) Letter from Sir Douglas Busk apologising that he was not there to meet Odell after his ‘exhausting’ tour and thanking him saying his lecture tour was ‘by far the best we have had for a considerable time in Finland’, 19 Nov 1959