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Letter from George Airy
Add. MS a/200/101 · Stuk · 18 May 1852
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Royal Observatory Greenwich - GA has just returned from Madeira where his wife and daughter are staying [see GA to WW, 20 November 1851]. GA doubts whether his daughter's health, Elizabeth, is any better. He saw 'the Pole Star lower than I practically thought possible (the Earth is assuredly not flat)'.

Add. MS c/101/101 · Stuk · 27 Oct 1891
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Asks for his name to be added [as one who supports the setting up of a Syndicate to inquire into the issue of allowing of alternatives for one of the classical languages in the Previous Examination] to Sidgwick's list.

Zonder titel
MONT II/A/1/101 · Stuk · 5 Feb. 1914
Part of Papers of Edwin Montagu, Part II

Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire.—Invites him to dine in London on Sunday. Is going to Tilstone Lodge tomorrow to hunt. Hopes he had fun in Spain. Sends birthday greetings.

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Transcript

Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire
Feb 5th 1914

Will you dine on Sunday evening {1} if you are in London. If you get this before Saturday 3 P.M. send me a line or telegram to Tilstone Lodge, Tarporley, Cheshire, where I go tomorrow to hunt, till Saturday night.
I hope you can come. I hope you had fun in Spain.

Yrs
Venetia

Very many happy returns of tomorrow. Every wish for your ? year.

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{1} 8th.

Pugwash Conferences
FRSH/F/101 · Bestanddeel · 1954–1967
Part of Papers of Otto Frisch

Miscellaneous material re meetings, conferences, policy statements, etc., some annotated by Frisch; includes a little MS material, notes taken at conferences, brief correspondence.

HOUG/36/101 · Stuk · [1840 or later?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Admiralty. - On Spencer Perceval's dilemma over appointment to Chancellor of the Exchequer: Palmerston's own future prospects of office; 'Milnes would probably not take it unless his ambition got the better of his partiality for Canning & his aversion to Perceval, and, though a man of very brilliant talents, I should much doubt his steadiness'.

Copy in unidentified hand.