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Concerning possible publication of a lecture by Wood on J.J. Thomson and securing materials (gypsum, anthracene, cellophane, etc.) for use in neutron diffraction experiments.

Some pages have been torn out of the front of the book - presumably the material on light. A few loose pages of notes, all in Thomson's hand, have been left in situ.

Included are letters from Sir B. H. Liddell Hart (B/74), A. E. Housman (B/76, B/81), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (B/77), 3rd Earl of Leicester (B/81), Ernest de Selincourt (B/81), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/79), John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (B/77), Hilda Margaret Pickard-Cambridge (B/81), Lionel E. L. Charlton (B/81), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), George Stuart Gordon (B/78), Winifred E. L. Hawke (B/80), George Cecil Jaffé (B/77), Kenneth Escott Kirk (B/79), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Sarah Hamilton Lusk (B/75), Theodore Lyman (B/70), Francis John Lys (B/74), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/76, B/78, B/80), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (B/78), Stephen Charles Neill (B/76); Sir Harold F. P. Percival (B/79), Ernest Murray Pollock, Baron (later Viscount) Hanworth (B/74, B.79), Constance Babington Smith (B/78), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/75, B/78), Sir George Adam Smith (B/79), Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor (B/79), John Grosvenor Barrington-Ward (B/75), John Macnaghten Whittaker (B/77), Alexander Wood (B/74), Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright (B/81).

Included are letters from: Sir W. L. and Lady Bragg (B/96), Lady Betty Balfour (B/95), E. A. Benians (B/95), Evelyn Bosacawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/94), Anne Chamberlain (B/97), Sir William Scott Farren (B/96), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/97), Sir David Randall Pye (B/95), Lilian Adam Smith (B/96), Denys Arthur Winstanley (B/94), Alexander Wood (B/94), P. B. Agate (B/97).

Included also at B/95 is a 4pp draft, in Lady Thomson's hand, of a speech on the history of Trinity College.

Cambridge - thanks John Cornford for working for Labour candidate in election.