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59 Redcliffe Road, London, SW10.—Is hoping to get coaching work at Cambridge, with help from Littlewood and other mathematical dons. Coaching would have to be very bad to compare unfavourably with the situation in London since the September Crisis. He did not know that Wittgenstein had succeeded Moore [as Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic at Cambridge]. ‘One feels that, but for [F. P.] Ramsey’s death, W. would have been confined to his proper sphere.’

Baines has said that he thinks the Lodging-Houses Syndicate would like more information about Wittgenstein. Details of Wittgenstein's background, his distinction as a philosopher, and his difficulties in obtaining lodgings; has stayed with J. M. Keynes, at some 'unsatisfactory' lodgings', with F. P. Ramsey, and is now staying with M. H. Dobb. Can get exact dates is needed, but would prefer 'not to trouble a man like Wittgenstein with these details unnecessarily. I understand that he is far above the ordinary level of a Ph. D., and I look upon him rather as a distinguished 'savant' than as an ordinary Research Student...'

Contents of a folder so inscribed.
B.78: Extensive ms. notes headed 'Kinds of definitions' and 'Other views on the Foundations of Mathematics'.
B.79: 13pp. miscellaneous notes and calculations, 1 page dated 2 February 1928.