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Letter returning the playscript for Bombastes Furioso, a Burlesque Tragic Opera in One Act by William Barnes Rhodes published by Samuel French, London, which has been kept with the letter.

Has had a letter from a friend that tells him a decision will be made on April 5th and that it is likely to be favourable; has written to E. D. Adrian.

Recommendations for a specialist in diabetes.

Includes a preface to the translations of H A J Munro and photographs of Lord Adrian

On headed notepaper for The Bath Club, 74 St. James's Street, S.W.1.- At Christmas 1956 the writer received prints of the photographs of the Master [Lord Adrian] which Duff 'liked so much', from a 'Polish colleague who had attended our Congress the previous summer'; wrote to him asking for the loan of the negative, but heard nothing until this Christ,as, when 'lo and behold a fresh set of prints arrived'. Encloses six of them.

With envelope postmarked 7 Jan. 1858, Kingston on Thames, Surrey, addressed to Duff at Trinity but forwarded on to Elvet Garth, Durham, and labelled 'Joe | Adrian photos''.

Annotation on the back in pen: 'M. L. 1956'; the photographs are said in the letter which accompanies them to be from 'a Polish colleague who had attended our Congress'. Taken, as can be seen more clearly in Add. MS a 519/8, in Nevile's Court, Trinity.

Annotation on the back in pen: 'M. L. 1956'; the photographs are said in the letter which accompanies them to be from 'a Polish colleague who had attended our Congress'.

Photograph taken in Nevile's Court, Trinity, other figures in background. Annotation on the back in pen: 'M. L. 1956'; the photographs are said in the letter which accompanies them to be from 'a Polish colleague who had attended our Congress'.

Thanks Joe for the letter and the 'excellent prints'; showed them to Alan Hodgkin, 'who said he had never seen such good pictures of Adrian'. Must show them to Adrian himself and his wife. Wonders if they should be 'deposited in the Library'.

Congratulations for his first in Finals.

Trevelyan notes that Geoffrey Winthrop Young told him the first time he saw Trinity as a boy with his father Sir George Young, he was told that his father saw William Whewell jump up the hall steps in cap and gown. Lord Adrian notes that he saw an undergraduate jump the steps in a gown after hall in summer in 1955 or so.

Photographs taken by "Cambridge News" with stamp and copyright statement on versos.

Candid photograph of Lord Adrian sitting in a Plenary Session lecture given by Prof. A. J. P. Martin at the Third International Congress on the Unity of the Sciences, London. Pencil caption on verso.

on becoming OM

Letter on becoming Master

21 Oct. 1948 at the conferment on Her Majesty The Queen of the honorary degree of Doctor of Law
6 June 1948 at the installation of Lord Adrian as Chancellor of the University

'Lord Adrian', 'Barenboim', 'Horace Barlow', 'Beethoven', 'Hans Bethe', 'Bessikovitch', 'Sir Hermann Bondi', 'Aage Bohr', 'Bragg'.

'George Trevelian', 'Tommy Gold', 'Lord Adrian 1955', 'Hermann Bondi' (photocopy).

[Marlborough, Wiltshire.]—Describes the nature of the injury to his finger, which will take several weeks to heal. Has been excused work, and is spending time reading. They will probably not be moved for a week or so. Has received a letter from Colin, who says that Professor Adrian’s lecture was a success. Is glad that he has decided to go to Bart’s Hospital.

Regarding the instalment of the new clock in Bentley's time as Master, and John Harrison's association with Trinity. With card from Adrian to H. M. Adams, the Librarian, passing on the letter and mentioning an attempt to find references to Harrison in the collections.

Regarding the rooms occupied by Isaac Newton at Trinity, with accompanying photocopied material referred to as 'Exhibits' A-C.
A: 'Appendix C. Sir Isaac Newton's Rooms', from D. A. Winstanley's Early Victorian Cambridge, 1940.
B: 'Newton's Rooms in Trinity' by the Master [E. D. Adrian], from the Trinity Review, [Lent] 1963.
C: 'General Introduction' from D. T. Whiteside's Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Papers, vol. 6, 1974
D: Extract from Willis and Clark, Architectural History of... Cambridge, 1888.