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2 Tobernea Terrace, Seapoint. - [Thomas] Thorpe of the Yorkshire College has been chosen for the South Kensington Chair [of chemistry, instead of her husband Walter Noel Hartley] but is not yet appointed; Lord Carlingford and Mr Mundella might reconsider if Houghton asked it; injustice; 'it is not a question of merit - simply one of influence.

Included are letters from R. B. Haldane (C/7, C/10), Sir T. E. Thorpe (C/7), A. J. Balfour (C/8, C/10), Stanley Baldwin (C/8), Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham (C/11), Louis de Broglie (C/11), George, 1st Viscount Cave (C/10), Sir Stephen Gaselee (C/12), Gustav VI Adolf, King of Sweden (C/12), Elizabeth Haldane (C/11), Sir Henry Newbolt (C/8) and S.A. Arrhenius (C/9).