From friends; included here is a lively letter written December 1964 to the Grahams by Stephanie Taylor before she became seriously ill.
Stephanie Taylor's death certificate
Letters of condolence received by Taylor on her death (not indexed).
Enclosed here is a ms. letter from Taylor to J. Rotblat, declining an invitation to a Pugwash Conference because of his wife's incapacity. The letter concludes: `In fact, except for fulfilling an engagement in 1965 which I had made before she was so ill, I have not been away from home for a night since 1964'.
USA
New Mexico
(France)
USA
(Sailing on `Guiding Light')
(Madrid)
(Final cruise on `Guiding Light')
USA, Guernsey, Istanbul
Visit to Australia, etc.
Lecture tour in USA
All from various addresses in USA
The last letters in both these folders are dated 12 August, immediately before the marriage.
Includes Taylor with Rutherford; skiing in Arosa, Switzerland with I. A. Richards in 1923 (7 photos); making a parachute jump at Girton in 1921; a Christmas card with a photo of G. I. and Stephanie Taylor sailing at Lofoten Islands in 1928 with two later enlargements of the photo.
Personal records of Fellows of the Royal Society, with entries by G. I. and Lady Taylor.
Correspondant, Académie des Sciences, Paris 1946 (Letter of election), D.Sc. University of London 1946 (Programme of events, citation), U.S. Medal for Merit 1946 (Citation, printed material, correspondence re (presentation), Hon. Member, Institute of Metals 1947 (Letter to Stephanie Taylor, 1955), Hon. Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society 1948 (Letter of election), Hon. Member, Calcutta Mathematical Society 1948 (Letter to Stephanie Taylor, 1955), Hon. Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences 1952
Concerning wills, annuities, and power of Attorney held during Stephanie Taylor's illness, 1964-74. Includes a photocopy of Taylor's will.
21 letters written by the Taylors to their housekeeper while travelling.
Includes: Letter of appointment as H.M. Government's representative, Third International Congress of Applied Mechanics, Stockholm, 1930. Letter re 'supply of metallurgists'. Nomination to Council of Royal Society. Also includes a letter from a friend to Stephanie Taylor.
A.35 includes (loose) signed photograph of Rajah of Sarawak.
Paginated 2-18, but talk begins on p.2 and there is no missing page.
Bill of sale to Taylor of 'Frolic', 1923, and some related correspondence, 1921, and re salvage claim, 1924. Also included is a letter to Stephanie Taylor, n.d., with a note by Batchelor 'probably after their cruise to the Lofoten Islands in 1927'.
'Sir Geoffrey Taylor' (Monthly Science News, 1945).
9 pp. ms.biographical notes on Taylor (to c. 1945) by Stephanie Taylor, 1954.
'G.I. Taylor. A biographical note', by R. V. Southwell (Surveys in Mechanics, C.U.P., 1956).
`Sir Geoffrey Taylor. His life's rule: to do what interests him' (New Scientist, 1957).
Writes from Pueblo, Colorado. Photograph of the construction of the Tabernacle Roof Salt Lake on the front.
Taylor spent several months in Linford Sanatorium, Ringwood, with a lung infection. He received many letters from his family and friends, mainly personal, but some including news of Cambridge. There are no surviving letters from Taylor for this period.