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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.

Concerns electron diffraction experiments. Includes correspondence with several others including O.W. Richardson, Lord Rutherford, L. Szilard and F. Simon.

Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge - Cannot accept the invitation to dine and meet Painlevé, as he will be at the Royal Society of Medicine that day; is glad Painlevé is getting an honorary degree.

Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge - Is available to meet Frazer any time he names in the next few days.

Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge - Is changing his plans so that he can hear Painlevé speak, but warns that if Painlevé doesn't speak English, his French is too poor for social purposes.

Includes correspondence with H.A. Ferreira.

Thomson's ms. notes.
Ms. draft of lecture.

2 typescript drafts, with ms. additions and corrections.

Offprint of New Zealand publication.
Proof of London publication, with ms. corrections.

Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge - Thanks Frazer for his note; congratulates him; was very agreeably surprised to get the O.M., and is 'very proud to be linked with you as a brother O.M. of the same college at the same time'.

Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge - Is sorry to hear about Sir James' eyesight; is enclosing a subscription for the bibliography.

Miscellaneous items of biographical interest. Includes grant to Lise Meitner by Chemical Society (1913), assessment by Hahn of a patent claim (1913), ministerial congratulations on Lise Meitner's work (1915), copy of letter from Rutherford to Stefan Meyer (1915), etc.

Trinity College Library, Cambridge - Encloses a formal acknowledgment of the gift of Frazer's book ['Totemica'?, gift acknowledgment not enclosed]; the Master [Thomson] wishes to express his thanks but has not written owing to the amount of work occasioned by Lord Rutherford's death.

7 Audley Square, W.1. [on mourning stationery] - Concerning a petition to the government, Sir James' name appears in a supplementary list with Lloyd George and Rutherford; Mr Baldwin was to have made a statement on the question of Thames bridges but is ill; unlucky that the General Strike prevented the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund; Viscount Rothermere sent a cheque for £2000, a great consolation and a surprise.

16 Albert Road, Whalley Range, Manchester. Dated May 27th 1925 - Is pleased with the Order of Merit conferred in the last two years: F. H. Bradley, Frazer, and Rutherford; has been ill; the 'Holborn Review' for July will carry his negative review of [Paul] Couchoud's book ['The Enigma of Jesus'], for which Frazer wrote the Introduction, discusses his own theory that the crucifixion is an argument in favour of the historicity of Jesus.

Stokes Lecture 1971 (with slides).

Folder includes 22 pp. transcript of tape recording (incomplete), photographs, copy of Rutherford's and Geiger's 1912 paper on αparticles.

Includes 8pp offprint of lecture by Sir J.G. Frazer titled 'The Scope and Method of Mental Anthropology', Science Progress, April 1922.

Included are letters by Louis de Broglie (B/53), Ernest Rutherford (B/53), A.E Housman (B/54) and C.G. Barkla (B/55).

Two letters, in the second of which he explains he has sent two drawings, though he favours the one in profile.

Included here are a copy of the Memoir of Rutherford (Proceedings of the Physical Society 1938) to which Thomson contributed, a list of Thomson's publications dated June 1909, and photocopies of 3 articles contributed by Thomson to Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry, ed. M.M.P. Muir, 1888 (sent to G.P. Thomson by P. Spitzer, 1970).

Letter written by John A. Campbell of the Rutherford Birthsite Project dated 6 Jan. 1992 enclosing an invitation, menu, 2 clippings and 2 photographs from the opening of the site.