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Rotblat, J. various dates 1946-78. General scientific correspondence, including some material re Pugwash conferences.

Rothschild, N.M.V. 1952, 1962

Autograph manuscript of a talk broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 23 Dec. 1954. Russell has put the incorrect date 'December 23, 1955' at the end.

Merton Hall, Cambridge.—Sends a paper to be considered for publication in the Review of English Studies.

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Merton Hall, Cambridge.
9 February 1938.

Dear Sir,

Would you consider publishing the enclosed paper {1} in your Journal?

Yours faithfully,
Rothschild

The Editor,
Review of English Studies,
c/o Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd.,
44 Museum Street,
London, W.C.1.

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Typed, except the signature.

{1} Rothschild’s paper ‘The Publication of the First Drapier Letter’ (not present). Cf. MCKW A1/22.

Merton Hall, Cambridge.—If the paper is not suitable for the Review of English Studies it might be included in The Library. Is puzzled by the format of a copy of Swift’s Conduct of the Allies.

(With envelope.)

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Merton Hall, Cambridge.
16 February 1938.

Dear Dr McKerrow,

A few days ago I sent you a paper I have written on the 1st Drapier Letter. {1} Since that time Harold Williams has suggested to me that if it were not suitable for the R.E.S. I should ask you to include it in The Library if you think it is worth while.

This, however, is not the real reason that I am writing to you. I have a bibliographical problem which is puzzling me, and I should be very much obliged if you could give me the benefit of your advice about it.

My copy of Swift’s Conduct of the Allies {2} is signed A–F8, {3} but the chain-lines are horizontal, and the watermark appears, I think upright, on the outer top corners of A5, 6, 7, 8, B7, 8, C5, 6, 7, 8, D7, 8, E7, 8, and F5, 6. This copy is clearly entirely uncut, but the top edges are straight. The size is 22∙2 x 13∙5 cm.

What I cannot decide is whether this book was printed on one half of a sheet originally double the normal size, or on cut-off pieces one-third the size of a normal sheet, as you suggest on p. 168 of An Introduction to Bibliography may sometimes be the case. Also, should the book be described as an 8vo?

I should be very grateful indeed if you could help me to clear up these points.

Yours sincerely
Rothschild

[Direction on envelope:] Dr R. B. McKerrow, | Picket Piece, | Wendover, | Bucks.

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Typed, except ‘Dear Dr McKerrow,’ ‘Yours sincerely | Rothschild’ and a small correction. The envelope, which was postmarked at Cambridge at 4.45 p.m. on 16 February 1938, is marked in pencil ‘Rothschild’ and, in another place, ‘K’, the significance of which is unclear.

{1} See MCKW A1/21. In the event the paper was printed, as Williams suggested, in The Library (4th series, xix. 107–15).

{2} Rothschild acquired six copies of this work, including two first editions, all now in Trinity College Library (Rothschild Library, ii. 551–2). The copy referred to is probably No. 2025 in the Catalogue (now RW.62.31).

{3} The ‘8’ is superscript.

Correspondence, 1953, 1956-1957. Rothschild was Chairman of the Agricultural Research Council, 1948-1958. 1956-1957 correspondence relates to Agricultural Research Council business and in particular a field experiment involving cattle which Synge wanted done.

Correspondence and papers, including material from meeting of Lord Rothschild with Fellows of the Royal Society

Original, annotated copies, and correspondence.

With typescript on 'History of ARC/DSIR [Agricultural Research Council/Department of Scientific and Industrial Research] investigations into the indoor storage of potatoes'.

The correspondence 1950-51 consists of photocopies of Taylor's letters to Rothschild, kindly made available by him. It relates to Taylor's study of the swimming of microscopic organisms and his papers on the subject. Though this work had its immediate origin in an enquiry from Rothschild about the movement of spermatozoa, Taylor says in his letter of 24 April 1951: `I had thought about this problem long before you mentioned it in connection with your work. Bidder used to write to me about it'. George Parker Bidder (1863-1953) was a marine biologist, who lectured at Cambridge and had dining rights at Trinity between the wars.

The letters of 1970 are on the trajectory of golf balls.