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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.

TAYL/A/37 · File · 1964
Part of Papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor (G. I. Taylor)

Taylor's interest in long gravity waves was aroused by a visit to Krakatau during the 1929 Congress (see Batchelor, Memoir, p.585).
Folder includes ms. translation of Pliny's letters on the eruption of Vesuvius, made for Taylor by the Archbishop of New Zealand, 1947, and brief correspondence re film of Tristan da Cunha eruption

Honours and awards
TAYL/A/56 · File · 1946-1955
Part of Papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor (G. I. 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