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Add. MS a/80/102 · Item · [19th cent.]
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Notes on Chas. Scarborough, ironmonger, smiths, tinners & braziers in Cambridge; a riddle; notes on praise of Whewell as a divine.

Letter from Henry Taylor
Add. MS a/213/102 · Item · 6 Nov. 1854
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Thanks WW for sending him the Supplement [probably 'The Influence of the History of Science upon Intelectual Education', 1854]: 'I find myself deep in Ethics and Metaphysics I feel as if I had got back into my youth - for many years are gone since I read anything in that line'. He is pleased to hear that Cordelia Whewell's health is improving.

Letter from George Airy
Add. MS a/200/102 · Item · 28 Sept. 1852
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Royal Observatory Greenwich - GA formally communicated Ross's [James C. Ross] scheme to the Admiralty but received no answer: 'It does not consist of my notions of propriety to go to the Treasury for a matter which must be managed by the Admiralty, unless that Admiralty had given an answer in this shape "We are desirous of doing it, but have no funds"'. That was how he gained funds for the Trigonometrical survey via the Royal Society memorial to the Treasury. GA thinks 'it would be best still to operate privately upon the Duke of Northumberland. If any thing is to be done formally, I suppose that Sabine [Edward Sabine] is the right person'.

SHAF/B/11/1/102 · Item · 10 Jan. 1983
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Is a sculptor, and went to 'Amadeus' as another night out, but found it profoundly illuminated her own experience as an artist constantly tangled by the labyrinths of administrators, and the power games played, particularly towards her as a woman: 'Salieri, so skilfully highlighted upon that stage, underlined just why power games are so serious to the players'; she left the theatre with 'eight years of social ambiguity and frustration ... succinctly brought into focus'.

Central Africa Office
RAB/F/102 · File · 1964
Part of Papers of Lord Butler

Mrs Butler's file of correspondence and information re trip to Washington, Tokyo and Manila, including details of RAB's itinerary

PETH/1/102 · Item · 22 Apr. 1958
Part of Pethick-Lawrence Papers

British-Asian and Overseas Socialist Fellowship, Transport House, Smith Square, London, S.W.1.—Thanks him for addressing a meeting of the Fellowship at short notice. The meeting was a success, despite the absence of Jayaprakesh Narayan.

(Signed as Secretary.)

Letter from Edward Bromhead
Add. MS a/201/102 · Item · 29 Apr. 1833
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George Green and EB are grateful to WW for all his help with the printing and distribution of GG's memoir. Sends WW another memoir to WW by GG: 'the Cambridge Transactions ought to lead all others in mathematics. I am convinced that the want of them is deemed an affectation - You are right about practical analysis - the age of the Warings, the Quixotic Chivalry of science is gone for ever'. George Peacock's algebra - '(to use a comparison) he still begins the Differential Calculus from Velocities'. Richard Jones 'is certainly a very able man - his idea of the labouring Classes gradually coming under the domain of Capitalists, is striking and true'. The 'moral machinery' of industrialisation 'has not kept pace with the population'. WW's Bridgewater Treatise 'is very striking - It certainly places the whole affair on a new and solid foundation'. For EB 'the Belief of a Deity from a view of nature is a matter of impression - what brings direct conviction to my own mind would appear absurd to another, and I never could announce it without hesitating'.

Add. MS b/36/102 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
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Maura, Dean Park Road, Bournemouth. Dated 21 March, 1896 - Congratulates him on his engagement; assures him there has been no coldness this term or ever, he has been busy: his brother Arthur died in December and he has been caught up in matters of his estate, and that of his father-in-law [Francis Vansittart Thornton], who died nearly a year ago.