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In relation to 'the guarantee', states that he will take his share, 'and could probably persuade Arthur Balfour if not Rayleigh. Thinks that Crookes and Well[ington?] 'are too poor.' Declares that he does not want to have to pay Paddock's damages for breach of contract. Does not believe that it will be considered that there were adequate grounds for the breach. Wishes that he thought otherwise 'for Eva [Fay?]'s sake' and theirs. Invites Myers to come on Saturday to talk it and other things over. Reports that he has sent off his last copy, but is 'still overwhelmed with labours.' Is condidering going to town at the end of the following week, and asks Myers if he shall be there.

The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking. - Encloses a notice for the "New Quarterly"; doubts whether it will get enough subscribers to 'pay its way', but thinks at long as it lasts it should 'keep up to quite a high level of interest': the first number does not look bad, and he has 'high hopes of [Desmond] MacCarthy as an editor'. G. L[ytton] Strachey is acting as literary sub-editor, and Lord Raleigh and [Robert John] Strutt, friends of the proprietor [George Arthur Paley] are 'more or less responsible for the scientific side'. Never wrote to say how much pleasure he got from Benn's book ["History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century"], which he thought 'excellent both as history and literature'; sympathised with what he said about Tennyson, Browning and others. Hopes the Benns are well; may visit Italy in the Spring, and hopes to see them if so.

Includes a letter from the Institution of Electrical Engineers re a talking film made by Thomson for their film collection, 5 April 1948. Also includes a letter from the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge re the acquisition of Thomson's correspondence for their archives, 8 November 1951, 7 February 1952.

Included are letters by F. A. Lindemann (B/58), A.J. Balfour (B/58, B/59), A.E. Housman (B/58, B/59), Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (B/58, B/61), Stanley Baldwin (B/59, B/60), Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers of Northiam (B/59), Charles John Darling, 1st Baron Darling (B/59), Henry Edward Duke, 1st Baron Merivale (B/60), Hermann Glauert (B/57), Helen Frances Hort, Lady Hort (B/61), Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram (B/58), Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (B/60, B/61), Princess Marie Louise (B/57), Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin (B/59); Francis William Pember (B/61), Thora Schjöth (B/57), Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (B/60), Constance Babington Smith (B/57, B/60), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/57, B/60), Margaret Babington Smith (B/57, B/61), Alexandra, Lady Studd (B/58).

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).