Letters from E. A. Benians, Edward Bridges, G. N. Clark, C. G. Eastwood, and G. M. Trevelyan, with a draft letter from J. R. M. Butler to Bridges.
The title cited is from the title-page. The volume is labelled on the spine ‘St. Simon | Nouvelle Encyclopédie | MSS.‘, and on the front ‘L.D.L.S.’ The written leaves are numbered in the bottom right-hand corner from ‘d.73’ to ‘d.224’.
American Physical Society, M.I.T., April 1946.
The Physical Society, Conference on Fundamental Particles and Low-Temperature Physics, Cambridge, July 1946.
University of Ghent Colloquium, invitation and letter of thanks from A. Berthelot, 1946-47.
Collège de France, Rutherford memorial meeting, 1947.
University of Birmingham, Conference 'Problems of Nuclear Physics', September 1948.
Will pass through London between 5th and 9th.
'Wixenford, 1884', written below mount.
He notes that the Ali brothers have been sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment and queries whether such sentences are appropriate for political misdemeanants, since such prisoners need more rigorous separation from the outside world than ordinary prisoners but, in other respects, lighter treatment. Suggest they should be treated as ‘first-class political misdemeanants’.
(Typed. Used for transmission.)
H O Evennet, director of studies
Ernest Barker
inscribed on reverse "for E[ily] M D[arwin] and B[ernard] D[arwin] with Xmas love from Frances Cornford "
Diary dated [6?] Nov. [1838] - 1 Jan. 1839. Top half of first leaf missing.
Thanks for Richard Monckton Milnes' poetry, charmingly dedicated to his sister; asks how they should acknowledge it. Wished to have walked to Thornes to visit 'yourself, & dear Mrs M. Gaskell' who is a great favourite; kind remembrances from her sister also.
In the hand of H. Walker.
MS drafts and typescript copies.