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The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London - Asks Frazer to give a Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on his work on Ovid in the spring.

Includes 3pp manuscript of letter of support for appointing S. Ramanujan to a Research Fellowship, by J.E. Littlewood (c 1913?).

Includes a letter from A.N. Shaw of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, re his memorial lecture on Rutherford. A reprint of the lecture titled 'Rutherford at McGill' is attached.

Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution - Thanks Lady Frazer for sending her friend's letter; as to a lecture by Monsieur Morel [Alexandre Moret?], he will consider fitting him in to the programme for next term.

The Royal Institution - Thanks Lady Frazer for her letters to friends in Paris on his daughter Gwendy's behalf and corrects the address she has given.

Includes letter, 1 Mar. 1932, from Virginia Woolf to Thomson, saying she is honoured to be offered the opportunity to give the Clark Lectures for the year 1932/1933 but that she feels she must decline 'as an amateur without training in scholarship and without experience of lecturing'. It is a 'peculiar gratification... to have been offered a lectureship once held by [her] father'.

Includes minutes of the Third Meeting of the Panel of Advisors for Broadcast National Lectures, which were held at Savoy Hill, London, 12 June 1930.

Bragg, W. H. 1933

Bragg, W. L. 1935, 1937, 1956, 1958. The two letters in 1958 concern the future of the M.R.C. Unit in Cambridge, in particular a proposal for a laboratory for Perutz, Kendrew, Crick, and Sanger.

Includes a letter from D. C. Henry of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society inviting Thomson to deliver the Dalton Lecture, 28 May 1930.

Included are letters from Stanley Baldwin (B/67), Lady Betty Balfour (B/70), Harley Granville Barker (B/69), Sir J. M. Barrie (B/68), Edmund Charles Blunden (B/71), Evelyn Boscawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/71), Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (B/67), Max Planck (B/67, B/70), Sir J. H. Jeans (B/71), Sir W. H. Bragg, (B/73), Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood (B/67), Prince Chula of Siam (B/72), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/71, B/73), Sir G. H. Duckworth (B/68), Frederich Homes Dudden (B/66), Lilly Frazer (B/72), Violet Grimston, Countess of Verulam (B/73), Graeme Haldane (B/72), Roy Harrod (B/72), A. E. Housman (B/73), David A. E. Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford (B/70), Sir Henry McCardie (B/63), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/68, B/70), Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (B/70), Katharine, Lady Parsons (B/66), Marga Planck (B/67), A.O. Rankine (B/73), John, 1st Viscount Sankey (B/72), Lady Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (B/71), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/66, B/69), Lucy Babington Smith (B/69), Susan Babington Smith (B/69), John Bulloch Souter (B/73), Angela Thirkell (B/72), Mari M. Thompson (B/73), Sir Henry Francis Wilson (B/68), F. Theodore Woods (B/69).

Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution - In letter of 28 Oct. (Item 59), he corrects her statement that there are unanswered letters, every one he has received he has answered; is distressed to hear of J. G. Frazer's health and subscribes to a copy of the bibliography; on 2 Nov. (Item 60) he sends a cheque.

Correspondence re arrangements to come to Britain, visits to London, Cambridge, Birmingham, etc., offers of posts.
Correspondents include Blackett, Bragg, Cockcroft, Oliphant, and also Frisch's farewell exchange with Bohr, his CV, list of publications, etc.
There are typed duplicates of some of the letters at the back of the folder.
During the correspondence, Frisch refers to his friend F. Urbach and offers to cede his place to Urbach if only one was available.

Two letters from W. H. Bragg about the portrait and his pleasure in the result, with two letters from Gilbert Spencer describing his failure to make an adequate portrait and declining to continue, and three letters from S. H. Kennington concerning his doubts about his portrait.

Crindau, Dumfries - Thanks them for the birthday greetings

Crindau, Dumfries, N.B. - Has received her letter and sympathises with the need for rooms for Sir James' work, has written to Sir William Bragg to ask about rooms in the Davy Faraday Laboratory.

Presumes Trinity does not want him to return, will get in touch with the WEA on his return with a view to lecturing, Winstanley, Burnaby and Bragg all seem to be back at Trinity.