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Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge - Is part of a group of people who are trying to bring pressure to bear on the German government, which has begun reviewing dossiers of academics and dismissing them. Sends a document for Frazer to sign which will be presented to the German government and which will be signed by the Vice Chancellor, the Master of Trinity, and Lord Rutherford; they are also asking Eddington, Hopkins, Pope, Housman, and he will sign himself.

Photocopies of letters originally dated 1918-1953 held by the ETH Library, Zürich. There are thirteen letters from Sir Arthur Eddington dated 1918-1944, with a translation of a letter sent by Weyl to Eddington dated 29 July 1944; an invitation sent by A. B. Ramsay dated 31 Oct. 1929 and a translation of a letter sent to A. V. Douglas dated 31 Oct. 1953. Accompanied by a copy of the catalogue entries in the ETH Library.

Observatory, Cambridge - Accepts an invitation to dine at Trinity on 17 November [to meet Paul Painlevé].

28 Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster.—Has spoken with Einstein about her husband's anticipations of some of his ideas, but Einstein does not read English easily and it is of little use to send him English books.

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28 Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster
22 June 21

Dear Mrs Clifford,

I had talk with Einstein about your husbands† genius & his anticipations of some of the ideas involved in Relativity. At these Prof. Eddington had hinted in his book, {1} which Einstein has read. But Prof. Einstein does not read English readily, & it is of little use to send him English books.

I will take my chance of finding you in at 5 on Sunday afternoon at Chilworth St.

Yours truly {2}
Haldane

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{1} Space, Time, and Gravitation (1920).

{2} These two words are indistinct.

† Sic.

Assembled in preparation of his book The Development and Meaning of Eddington's 'Fundamental Theory' (Cambridge University Press, 1957).

Three notebooks with paper wrappers, one bound with pasteboard covers. Three notebooks marked Collation 1-3 contain section headings of the MSS followed by summarised text of Chapters I-XI, dated Dec. 1849 - Sept. 1950. Further notes and collations at the end of the third notebook are dated to Sept. 1954. A fourth notebook contains the chronology and summaries and is dated July 1950.