Itchenstoke - RCT wishes to offer himself as a candidate for the vacant Theological Professorship at Cambridge - 'that is, supposing that Archdeacon Hare [Julius Hare] should not be a candidate. Should he determine to offer himself for the post, in that case every motive of respect & affection to him, & of interest in the theological well being of my university, would hinder me from putting myself forward as competitor, (which would be absurd) with him. Perhaps I might have a line from you to say what steps I ought to take for the purpose of officially declaring myself a Candidate, & whether I ought to announce my intention to each one of the electors'. RCT took great pleasure in WW's (anonymous) review of his Sacred Latin Poetry - 'both for the articles sake itself, & for the sake of it, as coming from you'. He also thanks WW for his volume on Induction: 'The subject lies only too far out of the line of my studies; but I can still perceive how much is at issue, how much more than at first sight might seem, in your differences with Mill [John S. Mill]. My sympathies, (I dare not in my ignorance of the subject use a stronger word) are altogether with you'.
Thanks for the return of a case.
Death of Mrs Chater, Church MIssionary Society have made no provision for her children, urges Charlotte and Robert Mayor not to sacrifice all their property for Church MIssionary Society but to make provision for their children, Henry suffering from "rheumatic gout", news of family and friends, death of Lord Curzon, trial of Queen Caroline, Mr Batty building a school at the end of his garden for poor girls: Everton
"Thorncote", Speldhurst, Kent - Describes her husband [Charles Pulley] and her life, will look for his letter to the 'Morning Post' in support of Frazer's.
Worcester College, Oxford.—Gives details of 16th and 17th-century plays in the College Library.
(Atholl Hydropathic, Pitlochry?)—After climbing Ben y Vrackie he and his companions had tea at Moulin. He found her parcel waiting for him at the hydro.
(Letter-head of 87 Clements Inn, W.C., but evidently written in Scotland.)
Written from Caius College.
Rasmussen, E. 1939
Rosenfeld, Y.V. 1940
1960 correspondence is in response to a request from Thomson for information re radio astronomy in connection with a proposed lecture tour in USA. Folder includes letters from A.C.B. Lovell and H. Bondi, and some ms. notes and calculations by Thomson.
Reports that he has just finished reading Arthur Sidgwick's biography of Henry Sidgwick, which, he claims, 'had a purifying and ennobling influence' on his heart. Explains that he is a Methodist preacher, and does not have the same attitude to Christianity as Henry Sidgwick had, but asserts that the latter 'found his abiding place on earth in it. Compares the effect of the book on him to that which he experience on reading, as a young man, the biography of Charles Kingsley. Adds that he lived in Oxford not long before, and claims to have known Arthur Sidgwick's face on the street, and so read the book for his sake.
He should not be disappointed at his second place and should enter for the lyrics prize
Includes note on back of 1960 Trinity Hall register of addresses. Some sets of calculations have later annotations by Adams.