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Trinity College, Cambridge, sent to Boas at 4767 Duke Station, Durham, N. C. - Thanks Boas for the book, and 'Mr Coombs for his friendly inscription' [the book is probably Baseball: Individual Play and Team Strategy, by John Wesley Coombs (1939)]; says he tries 'to solve one problem a day', and gives an example.

New College, Oxford. - Has written to the N.R.C. Is, in theory, finishing his book on Ramanujan book, 'but find it almost impossible to concentrate on that or any other book, It all seems "no bloody good" in the circumstances'.

Caption on the back indicates that it was taken in the late 1930s by R. P. Boas.