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93: 16-17 Aug. 1922, enclosing dried ferns.
94: 17 Aug. 1922, containing sketch of Rhine Bridge at St. Maurice
96: 20 Aug. 1922, in French.
99: 24 Aug. 1922, containing sketches of Swiss Alps

103. 2 Sept. 1922, with additional note from Bernard Babington Smith to his sister Margaret.

87: [1910], with additional notes from Bernard Babington Smith (in Helen Walker's hand) and Helen Walker to Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith.
88-90: [early 1912?]-29 Mar. [1913?]: in the hand of Margaret's aunt Lady Constance Veronica Bruce.
91: [24 June 1913], with additional note from David Babington Smith to their mother
96: 14 Aug. 1918, enclosing a small piece of Welsh slate.
97: 16 Aug. 1917, enclosing a fern leaf.
110: 26 July 1922, enclosing a press cutting and photograph of the Daily Mail sand game at Sheringham on 25 July 1922, won by Margaret Babington Smith; 111 is another photograph of the Daily Mail sand game
112: 27 July 1922, enclosing a press photograph of Margaret Babington Smith's winning 'Teddy Tail' design in the Daily Mail sand game at Sheringham.

Notes on books and articles read at one end of book, with partial index written out on front cover: W. S. Maugham, Strictly Personal; W. V. Quine, Mathematical Logic; J. R. Sturge-Whiting, The Mystery of Versailles and C. A. E. Mobery & E. F. Jourdain, An Adventure; L. J. Bendit, Paranormal Cognition: [its place] in Human Psychology; E. J. Garrett, My Life as a Search for the Meaning of Mediumship. G S. Brown, 'Statistical Significance in Psychical Research' (article from Nature); Kendall, M. G. & Babington-Smith, B., 'Second Paper on Random Sampling Numbers' and 'Randomness and Random Sampling Numbers (articles from Supplement to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society) and 'Tables of Random Sampling Numbers' (no. XXIV of Tracts for Computers, ed. E. S. Pearson); Korzybski, A., Science and Sanity: an introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics'; Pearson, E. S., 'William Sealy Gosset, 1876-1937. "Student as Statistician"' (article in Biometrika*).

Notes on indication of probability in symbolic logic on p. 27 and a record of a dream 44/45, with interpretation on p. 29. Notes on 'Candidates for Perrot (1954) [now the Perrot-Warwick Fund, which awards grants for research in parapsychology], p. 38. Notes 'from Brown's dissertation' and Thouless's own 'P K expt' at end of this section.

Labelled 'R. H. Thouless, Dept. of Education, 17 Brookside, Cambridge', on inside cover at other end, with note from Oct. 1942. Parts of pages cut away at top in this section of the book to provide index: sections labelled 'Lectures', 1942-1943; 'Practical' - notes on teaching, individual students, results of questionnaire, and 'Wittgenstein'. This section includes notes on Norman Malcolm's 1958 memoir, which seems to have inspired Thouless to write out 'My own recollections'. Includes record of their first meeting, and notes taken from Thouless' personal diaries, 1941-1945. Also includes more general thoughts on their friendship, Thouless' impression of Wittgenstein's opinions of his pupils, Francis Skinner, Wittgenstein's thoughts on war, his hospital porter work, and death.

60-75, 77: Written by or with the assistance of Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith.
62: 17 Sept. 1909, with additional notes from Margaret, Henry George, and Michael James Babington Smith to Henry Babington Smith.
70: 15 Oct. 1911, birthday card, painted by Bernard Babington Smith?
76: [Spring 1912?], in the hand of Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin?
83: 21 Aug. 1915, enclosing letter from Constance Babington Smith to Henry Babington Smith, 21 Aug. 1915, in the hand of Bernard Babington Smith.
86: on or before 17 Aug. 1916, with additional note from Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith to her husband Henry Babington Smith.
88: 24 Feb. 1918, enclosing copy of Bernard Babington Smith's Horris Hill scholll reprt, 18 Jan.-23 Feb. 1918.

76 (26 Feb 1902); 113 (29 Dec 1911); 135 (23 Feb 1912); 175 (30 Dec 1912; 228 (11 Nov 1915); 230 (30 Dec 1915): all contain additional messages from Henry Babington Smith to his father-in-law Lord Elgin

62: 21-27 May 1910, enclosing sketch of garden in Turkey
64: 26 Dec 1910-1 Jan 1911, with enclosures: photograph of Stefo Pavlovitch, Margaret Babington Smith and Bernard Babington Smith, with explanatory note, and sketch, 'Izzet Pasha's Orchid House in our garden', 27 Nov 1910.
112: 15 Dec 1911, containing copy of letter from H. L. Samuel to Henry Babington Smith
119: 6-9 Jan 1912, with press cutting, 'The Brilliant Moonlight', letter from Arthur Burnet to The Times [2 Jan 1912]
120: 10-11 Jan 1912, enclosing five photographs of snowy Turkish garden, four showing Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith
122: 22-25 Jan 1912, enclosing two press cuttings on Turkish finance from Turkish newspaper, 22 Jan 1922 (in French)
127: 29-31 Jan 1912, enclosing press cutting, 'Turkish Treasury Bonds' from unidentified newspaper (after 25 Jan 1912)
124: 19-20 Feb 1912, enclosing letter from Hon. Alexander Bruce to Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith, 12 Jan
143: 17-19 Mar 1912, enclosing letter from Henry George Babington Smith to Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith, 10 Mar 1912
156: 30 May 1912, telegram
167: 17 Aug 1912, containing copy of letter from Lord Crewe to Henry Babington Smith, 14 Aug 1912
190: 23 Dec 1913, with enclosures: letter from Margaret Babington Smith to her grandfather Lord Elgin (in the hand of Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith; good luck card from David Babington Smith to his grandfather
214: 5 Apr 1915, containing copy of letter from Hon. Alexander Bruce to Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith
237: [Dec 1916], enclosing letter from David Babington Smith to his grandfather Lord Elgin.

Early letters are not in Bernard Babington Smith's hand: items 4 and 7 are in the hand of his aunt Lady Constance Veronica Bruce, and item 5 in the hand of his grandmother Susan Emma Smith.

12: copy in their mother's hand of letters from Bernard and David Babington Smith, 22 Sept. 1918.