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Typescript volume covers the period 1918-1920, and was written in 1927. It is entitled 'Constant Travel', and Moore Bennett describes in detail his return to China from Vancouver, via Japan and Manila, and his various travels to Hong Kong, Saigon , etc. with his wife Dolly, and his frequent travels on business. He comments in detail on individuals he meets and does business with, and details the setting up of various offices including Hong Kong. Moore Bennett takes various sigh seeing trips, including to Tung Ling or the Eastern Tombs of the Ch'ing Dynasty, to Phnom Penh and Angkor Wat in Cambodia, to Ma Shihkou along the old Karakoram Road, and to Jehol. Describes his business activities working with the Anglo Chinese Engineers Association Limited (ACEAL), and the eventual failure of the business. Comments on the French in Indochina, and the Annamese people. Description of the return voyage to England in 1920, and views on children. Describes his visit to England and travels regarding business. Expresses his views on the political situation in China, particularly with regard to the Americans.

The volume is divided into sections entitled 'Tabulated movements for the Year 1918. New York. Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver the trip and people'; 'Labour Party in British Columbia. Tieing [sic] up the War'; 'Empress of Russia Voyage to China. Shainghai. Hong Kong'; 'Manila Philippines Problems. Hong Kong during the War. Holyoak. Race course fire. Canton. Monkey'; 'Taksang. Haiphong. Beazley. Dosan. Amichou. Yunnanfu. Trips. Carpenters. Grahams. Goffe, Mengel, Ortalani'; 'Hanoi. Haiphong. Marie Tiart. Saigon and its people. Lennox. SS Hanamet. Mr and Mrs Girardet. Shanghai. Chefoo'; 'Peking. Tung Ling Eastern Tombs trip. Wilhelm Meyer. Black. Danish community. Queins. House hunting. Armistice'; 'Southern Hupeh. Yangtze River. Shanghai. Girardet. Hong Kong. N.T.J. Stevens. Canton. Macao. Ormiston. Roxy'; 'Taksang. Steibritz. Yunnanfu its folks. Xmas there. Amichou'; 'Tabulated movements for the year 1919'; 'R. Anderson imprisonment. Macdonald. Ormiston. Hong Kong. Saigon. Mytho. Pnom Phen [sic]. Cambodia. Ankors Watt. Saigon. Morals'; 'Redmaynes Ambitions. Andre Le Bon. Haiphong. Dorothy Fox and Madame Wilden. Shanghai. Russians in China. HHF. Peking'; 'New House at Peking. Ma Shihkou trip. Peking life. Joy's wedding. MR'; 'Shanghai. Mrs G. Her lovers. Bryants. Wetheralls. E. Cox. Roxy. Hong Kong. Harry Quein. Post War Wasters. Wilson. Coast Manners. West River. Wuchow. Mrs Green. Hong Kong. Amoy'; 'Shanghai. Emily Smith. Chefoo. Helen Macgregor. Whitton. Kay. Taiyuanfu and Shansi trip. 'Dry Beds'. Peking. Sykes';' Taku Hilliar. Shanghai hit by cold wind. Hong Kong. Canton. Ricou. Haiphong. Ogliastro. Manche. Tourane. Hue. Its palaces and people. French Officials. Life. History. A Long Drive. Description of Natives. Towns Saigon'; 'Tabulation of Movements for the Year 1920'; 'Saigon, Trouble in London and Peking. Hulme. Madame Charles. Helen's lover. Mrs G's gift to me. MR. The Jehol Trip. Temples. Old Faiths. Stephens. Mrs Mei Ba.'; 'Preparing for England. Nanking. Shanghai. Massey. Hong Kong. Ormiston. Holyoak. Harry Dreyer. Herb. Canton. Delta. Mothers and Children. Nursemaid. C Bond. Dana and Murphy. Bombay. London'; 'War. Alex Reiss. Henry Reiss. the Banks. The Burst. Funeral of the Unknown Soldier. Gloucester. Salisbury. Glasgow etc.'; 'Resume of the Period'.

Images include: two black & white photographs of Moore Bennett on board the Empress of Russia Jan 1918, on voyage from Vancouver to Hong Kong; four black and white photographs of the funeral of Yuan Shih Kia including coffin being carried by bearers approaching Chem Men, the funeral car on the train on its way to Honan, the passing of the funeral procession, and some of the green clad attendants; black & white photograph of the salt flats, Tientsin, Taku; black & white photograph of 'Emily at Woosung'; two back & white photographs of the front at Shanghai 1919 'before the new Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building was erected'; fourteen black & white photographs of Cambodia 'the Danse Hall', 'Mytho on the Mekong River', and 'Ankors Wat [sic] bathing tank', 'the town of Pnomphen [sic] from the river', and 'The Up Lake steamer Cambodians getting on board', two further images of the Danse Hall, façade of the Palace, elephant façade of the Palace of the King, silver floored pagoda, 'South Indian female forms on walls', and three images of 'Ankors Watt' [sic]; six black and white photographs taken at Ming Tombs; three black and white photographs of Mashikou Trappist Monastery and Loop, including the grave of Kuangh Su, Wu Tai Shan, and camp on the loop road; black & white photograph of 'Allie Tyau and Dolly Aug 1919'; black and white photograph 'English Bay 1919'; black and white photograph 'Sunrise taken 1923'; three black and white photographs of boats on the river at Wuchow; three black and white photographs of the Pei Hai screen, 1920; black and white photograph of the mountains towards Da Tu Mu station on the Kalgan railway; two black and white photographs of temples at Jehol; three black & white images of statues and carvings of various deities, entitled 'my loving Gods', including 'the Mongol man'; black and white photograph of Dolly at the Great Wall, Kou Pei K'ou; black and white photograph of deer in the park at Jehol palace; black and white photograph of 'Pa Ta Lo'; watercolour drawing of a Chinese gate, May 1920; black and white photograph of the camels at the Ming Tombs at Nanking; black and white photograph of mountains and flooded paddy fields, Nanking.

Content warning: The papers of Arthur Moore Bennett (1877-1950) contain his personal views and opinions, with explicit language and terminology which today are deemed unacceptable and offensive and may cause upset.