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23, West Road, Cambridge. - Thanks Bessie for her letter; they will indeed 'all miss our beloved Will [Arnold-Forster], who was 'so much to us in our younger days'. His portrait of her hangs in the dining room here with an artificial light over it; they 'could not make much of it' in the [Trinity Master's] Lodge as the lighting was difficult, but now it is back in its proper place. She and George are 'happily back in this house'; hopes they will stay here 'forever' now; the Lodge was 'impossible' once she became 'so feeble in walking'. The Adrians have not yet moved in, since there are 'such huge repairs to be done' on the electric wiring and structural deficiencies; is 'thankful to be out of it'.

Included are letters by:
Louis de Broglie, Ernest Rutherford (B/53),
A.E Housman, J. E. B. Seely (B/54)
E. D. Adrian, C.G. Barkla, Dorothea, Lady Charnwood, Lilly Frazer, Kathleen, Lady Rayleigh (B/55).
C. A. Alington, H. L. Paget (B/56)

Adrian had been a contemporary of Taylor at Trinity and remained one of his closest friends; many of the personal letters in Section A include references to meetings, dinners, holidays, etc. shared by the Adrian and Taylor families. Because of their close personal contact, little correspondence remains.

Folder includes two letters from A.S.F. Gow, 1972, about Adrian's car accident.

Concerning Adrian's Tripos, and miscellaneous news from Cambridge.

A 23 pp. typescript account by Carmelita Hinton (Taylor's cousin by marriage) with a ms. note 'Written for friends for Xmas 1924', and a ms. note by Batchelor 'Sent to Stephanie Ravenhill. Part 2 describes a cruise on "Frolic" with G.I.T. as skipper.'
The party included 'Aunt Maggie' (Taylor's mother), 'another cousin Ursula' [Nettleship, see A.161], a 'Dr. Adrian' [E.D. Adrian] and 'The O'Malleys' [see A.163].

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.

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.

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

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

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

Letter on becoming Master

on becoming OM

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.

Trinity College material includes material from Larkin's academic career, with a letter from his tutor J. M. K. Vyvyan with the offer of a place at Trinity in 1961; supervision programmes from supervisor R. A. Leigh; five sets of supervision papers with R. A. Leigh, Brian Rogers, and Miss Harry (Newnham); examination papers for the Trinity College French prizes, March 1963; a letter of congratulations from the Master Lord Adrian on his first in Finals in 1964, to several long letters from Leigh relating to possible research topics in 1964-1965.

Material relating to his participation in Trinity athletics includes three photographs taken mid-race, race certificates and race results of the Hyde Park road relay, St Edmund Hall road relay, Selwyn College road relay, the 3 miles race, and the Cuppers Finals at Milton Road, accompanied by cuttings about the races.

Added to these are College Chapel services cards, menus for the Commemoration of Benefactors feast, an invitation and programme for the 1967 Trinity May Ball, an invitation to the Advanced Students dinner, and a menu for the Trinity Research student dinner.

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'.

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'.

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'.