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Oberbozen - Congratulates Frazer, has no sooner written him one letter than he needs to write another with OM on the envelope; is pleased his fellow companion is Rutherford, is certain there are thousands of people in England who will rejoice with him, and knows Lady Frazer must be well pleased.

Includes 3pp manuscript of letter of support for appointing S. Ramanujan to a Research Fellowship, by J.E. Littlewood (c 1913?).

Includes a letter from A.N. Shaw of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, re his memorial lecture on Rutherford. A reprint of the lecture titled 'Rutherford at McGill' is attached.

5 pp. ms., with reminiscences of Rutherford, Kapitza and Taylor's yacht `Frolic'.

Royal Academy of Arts - Congratulates Frazer; when he saw Sir Frederick Ponsonby in the summer, Lamb had mentioned Frazer and Rutherford to him, so is particularly satisfied with the Honours List.

Most of these are additional to the list given in the Bibliography, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 27, 305.

'The Acceleration of Particles to High Energies', Discovery, 1950.

'Atomkraft heute und morgen', by Carlos Sánchez del Rio, 1955.

'The Great Decision', by M. Amrine, New Scientist, 1960.

'The Birth of the Bomb', by R.W.Clark, Discovery, 1961.

'From Dualism to Unity in Quantum Physics', by A Landé, Contemp. Physics, 1961.

'The New World', U.S. Atomic Energy Commission History, Vol.1, New Scientist, 1962.

'Physics in the Sixties', ed. S.K. Runcorn, Discovery, 1963.

Combined review of books by Oppenheimer, Weizsäcker and Schrödinger, New Statesman, 1964.

'The Nature of matter', by L.C.L. Yuan, Science Journal, 1965.

'The Art of the soluble', by P.B. Medawar, 1969.

'Rutherford - Recollections of the Cambridge days', by M. Oliphant, 1973.

'Collected Works of Leo Szilard', ed. B. Feld and G. Szilard, Physics Bulletin, 1973.

'Solvay Conferences on Physics', by J. Mehra, 1977.

'Scientists in Power', by S. Weart, Nature, 1979.

16, Albert Road, Whalley Range, Manchester - 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.

8 letters and 2 fragments of letters, from:

• Ramsay Macdonald, 6 Mar. 1914
• James Balfour, 8 Jan. 1920
• Lord Haldane, 4 May 1924
• E. Rutherford, 20 June 1925, accepting congratulations for his Order of Merit
• Albert, the future George VI, 26 Apr. 1926, accepting congratulations on the birth of his daughter Elizabeth
• Lord Cecil, 9 Sept. 1927
• Stanley Baldwin, 30 May 1930
• Lord Halifax, 8 Jan. 1941, will take a letter to Butler's brother, will be happy to see one of the family 'after working with Rab so long'
• two fragments signed by Stanley Baldwin and Lord Grey

Includes Taylor with Rutherford; skiing with I.A. Richards; making parachute jump at Girton; with Stephanie Taylor at Lofoten Islands.

A set of photographs sent by the Chief Executive of the Tasman District Council.

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.

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).

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

Included are letters by:
Louis de Broglie (B/53), Ernest Rutherford (B/53),
A.E Housman (B/54)
E. D. Adrian, C.G. Barkla, Dorothea, Lady Charnwood, Lilly Frazer (B/55).
C. A. Alington (B/56)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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'.