Dossier 11 - Hard-cover notebook with much later annotation by G.P. Thomson 'G.A. Herman's coaching'

1 vol

The first entry is dated October 1910, but most of the subsequent entries are undated.
In his autobiography (A.4) Thomson recalls that he and five others went to G.A. Herman three times a week for private coaching. `It cost nine guineas a term, quite a sum in those days ... The coaching was really a set of lectures, but examples were set and each morning he went through those set last time ... The actual lecture was given fairly fast and our notes were often incomplete, but we used to meet afterwards in someone's rooms and learned a lot in the process of sorting them out. If the lectures had been free we should probably not have taken this trouble, to our loss.'