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52 Catherine Street, Liverpool. Dated Nov. 12, 1905 - Thanks him for ['Lectures on the Early History of Kingship']; were visited by the Rouse Balls for a few days.

3 Cavendish Terrace, Liverpool. Dated March 29, 1913 - Thanks him for the book ['The Belief in Immortality']; had a visit from the Rouse Balls, both seemed a good deal older; Satterthwaite [Percival Hebblethwaite?] and [Eugenio] Londini have been away and unlikely to return to full duties, and Mrs [Eleanor?] Caroe died after a terrrible illness; [J. P.?] Postgate 'is reported by an irreverent son to be abroad, supplementing the information by saying Peace, perfect peace'.

On Jackson's Order of Merit.

Informs him he has been elected to the Coutts Trotter Studentship.

Letter, 11 Sept 1918 from Rowse Ball to Hardy sent with 'a copy of what I said about the Four Digits and the Four "4s" Problems in my Recreations'; another letter, 12 Sept 1918, from Rowse Ball to Hardy on the Four Digits Problem. Paper wrapper labelled 'De 1, 2, 3, 4 problem' containing 2 folded typed sheets, with MS annotations, headed 'From my Math. Rec. [Mathematical Recreations and Essays, published by Rowse Ball in 1892]' 'Four Digits Problem' and 'Four Fours Problem'; printed sheet, 'An Extension of the Sturm-Liouville Expansion', with MS notes on back, plus another sheet ; 21 sheets of MS notes and calculations.

Includes correspondence re the death of W.W. Rouse-Ball, a Tutor at Trinity College, April 1925.

Inch-ma-home, Sunday - Responds to Sutherland, who has asked on his brother's behalf for more information about Research Studentships. Frazer passes on information from the Senior Tutor, [Rouse] Ball; encloses a circular about Research Studentships [no longer present], discusses time of application, the advantages of becoming a Collegiate vs a Non-Collegiate student, the benefits of membership at a college, and Trinity College in particular, costs, qualifications and attainments expected for Research Students. Possibly addressed to the brother of Donald George Sutherland, who was admitted at St John's Cambridge in October 1899 as an Advanced Student.

These papers consist primarily of writings by E. H. Neville which are accompanied by a small amount of correspondence, and a box of offprints of articles by and about Neville. Some of the writings are identified, but many are not, and it is not clear if the unidentified writings are lecture notes or drafts of one or more books for publication. These unidentified writings tend to be fair copies, with few alterations. Correspondents include W. W. Rouse Ball, W. E. H. Berwick, A. R. [Forsyth?], E. G. Gallop, Amy Herman, R. A. Herman, J. Jackson, J. E. Littlewood (about G. H. Hardy), and W. F. Sheppard.