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Asks for the name of an insecticide. Feels that there is something fundamentally wrong with his thinking but does not know what it is.

Letter of acceptance for the 1905 Apostles' dinner.

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Is unable to lunch with him as she is going to a wedding, but invites him to see her later. Asks if he has remembered Sylvia. She enjoyed last night and admires his house.

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18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
Friday

I stupidly forgot, when I asked you to lunch, that I was going to a wedding in the afternoon which starts at 1.45 {1}. I am so sorry. Will you come in the afternoon or to tea? Let me know if you will come. Have you remembered Sylvia?

What fun we had last night. I think your house quite lovely, you have been disappointingly successful and independant†.

Venetia

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{1} Probably the wedding of William Ormsby-Gore and Beatrice Cecil, which took place at Westminster Abbey on the afternoon of Saturday, 12 April 1913. Venetia attended both the ceremony and the reception afterwards at 20 Arlington Street. See The Times, 14 April, p. 8.

† Sic.
(Dated Friday.)

Przibram was Frisch's supervisor for his doctorate in Vienna in 1926. Correspondence 1973 is with Przibram's family and others after his death.

Postmarked Maidstone. - Sends 'a scribble' for correction; no need to send a proof as he does not return until Thursday.

Visit to California Institute of Technology. 1968
Eighth Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Pasadena, California. 1969
British Hydromechanics Research Association: talk on fluid science. 1969-70
Visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1970
Visit to Fort Collins, Colorado State University. 1970

Copy letter in the hand of Julia Monk. Flattered by the invitation to stand as a Liberal Unionist candidate, enquires of the infrastructure of the Party within Gloucester and of the requirementsof the candidate

Leddon Cottage, Welcombe, Bideford, Devon.—Praises Greg’s Shakespeare First Folio and refers to current bibliographical work on Shakespeare.

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Leddon Cottage, | Welcombe, | Bideford, | Devon.
16 May 1955

Dear Sir Walter,

The arrival of your book on Saturday was the greatest surprise and pleasure to me. It was very kind of you to remember me. I knew from Fredson Bowers that you had a book on the stocks, though I had not grasped that it was on so heroic a scale. I am greatly enjoying your balanced account of how matters stand.

As you say, the march of events is now beyond the ability of print to keep up with, but I judge that it will be a long time before anyone can give a coherent account of the printing of the Folio, as I don’t think the pattern is self-contained. Neither Schroeder’s conclusions nor Hinman’s forthcoming article (of which he sent me a copy) make sense in relation to compositors’ stints and the pattern must include, I think, some book or books being printed concurrently.

I hope all is well with you. We have had a gruelling winter as we were snow-bound or ice-bound for weeks, but at any rate no germs survive the rigours of this coast. We are looking forward very much to having Miss Willcock in Bude permanently after the summer, when she retires, and I hope she won’t be too much absorbed by her house and garden (especially the latter) to have no time for Shakespeare. I get on with my old spelling texts, but there seems no hurry called for until Hinman has finished his work.

It seems a pity in some ways that the project for a new facsimile was abandoned, but I suppose what is really wanted is a composite volume or volumes based on Hinman’s collation. But if the facsimile projected provided an incentive, this is to everyone’s good and I look forward to the companionship and help of your book in my own more trifling endeavours.

With my warmest congratulations,

Yours, most gratefully,
Alice Walker.

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Typed, except the signature and a comma.

Predominantly notes on Abgar, and on engravings by Thomas Higham (these include some typed lists, with MS annotations); some other topics, such as Shakespeare, Donne, Bentley.

(The 45 sheets were numbered in the top left-hand corner on 23 January 2026 in the order in which they then stood. The sheets relating to Thomas Higham are Nos. 16, 19–24, and 26–36.)

Greek, Latin, French

Concerns electron diffraction experiments. Includes correspondence with several others including O.W. Richardson, Lord Rutherford, L. Szilard and F. Simon.

7 Camden St. and Town - Thanks him for his paper on mental philosophy. 'At first glance, I see an approximation between my ideas & yours in finding that you can admit the phrase "laws of mental activity" in place of "fundamental ideas". If your meaning of the latter phrase is interchangeable with any sense in which I can use the former, I have read much of your writing at cross-purpose'. He has no doubt on the 'absolute substantive reality of all the primary truths of maths. I have never had any doubt: but I have an idea that different people hold them by different hooks'.