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Concerning the provenance of the portrait of Isaac Barrow.

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Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks her for the introduction to Bourdelle, has enquired about the cost of the bust.

Letter of thanks from D.R. Pye, Director of Scientific Research, Ministry of Aircraft Production, to Davenport and staff at Bangor, re 'the bomb ballistic computations'.

Correspondence, chiefly from D.R. Pye and G.B. Jeffery, University College London, re appointment to Astor Chair of Mathematics.

The letters run from the initial approach to Davenport to his formal appointment. Davenport declined the possibility of the Manchester post (A.55) in favour of London.

Trinity College, Cambridge - As Secretary of the College Memorials Committee, informs Frazer that they would like a copy of the bust of Frazer by Bourdelle; wants Frazer to contact Bourdelle.

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

Included are letters from: Sir W. L. and Lady Bragg (B/96), Lady Betty Balfour (B/95), E. A. Benians (B/95), Evelyn Bosacawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/94), Anne Chamberlain (B/97), Sir William Scott Farren (B/96), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/97), Sir David Randall Pye (B/95), Lilian Adam Smith (B/96), Denys Arthur Winstanley (B/94), Alexander Wood (B/94), P. B. Agate (B/97).

Included also at B/95 is a 4pp draft, in Lady Thomson's hand, of a speech on the history of Trinity College.