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Typed letter from Peter Shaffer to Jerry Weinstein
SHAF/A/2/102 · Item · 20 Aug. 1961
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

18, Earls Terrace, London, W.8. - Was photographed by John Paignton, as were Vic and Graham; late night with Vic telling stories; has finished a TV play, "The Musical Offering"; Tennents are looking for a director for "Sirens"; Hollywood calls often asking him to write the script of the "Voyage of the Beagle" but doesn't have time.
Letter from George Airy
Letter from George Airy
Add. MS a/200/102 · Item · 28 Sept. 1852
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Royal Observatory Greenwich - He 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. He 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'.
Letter from Ian S. Campbell to Lord Pethick-Lawrence
Letter from Ian S. Campbell to Lord Pethick-Lawrence
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.)
Rabel, G. and others
FRSH/F/102 · File · 1948–1966
Part of Papers of Otto Frisch

Dr. Gabriele Rabel was an Austrian scientist, contemporary with Lise Meitner, who attended Einstein's lectures in Berlin. Folder includes offprint of her article 'Die Geschichte des "Cavendish"' 1946, miscellaneous correspondence re her house near Cambridge bought with the help of Frisch and other friends, and its disposal after her death in 1963.
Copy of Srinivasa Ramanujan's notebook 2: chapters X [continued]-XVIII [in part]
Add. MS b/102 · Item · [20th cent.]
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

The second notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter X is continued from Add.Ms.b.101, and Chapter XVIII is continued in Add.Ms.b.103. Includes two letters from G. N. Watson to B. M Wilson, 28 June 1929 and 1 October 1930 (between ff. 32 and 33).

 Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920), mathematician
Miscellaneous notes
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.
Scrapbook 'Volume V. 1940-1943'
RAB/L/102 · File · 1939–1943
Part of Papers of Lord Butler

Press cuttings about RAB as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and general progress of the war, appointment as President of the Board of Education July 1941 and speculation re same Feb 1941, education speeches etc., post-war problems committees; texts of addresses to Annual General Meeting of Association of International Understanding, broadcasts on diplomacy and foreign affairs, meeting of Central Council of National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, meeting of Free Church Federal Council; personal impressions of Scottish schools; letters of congratulations on broadcast and letter predicting that RAB would be Prime Minister in 1949; photographs of RAB at League of Nations in 1939, visit with Earnest Brown, Minister of Health, to Manchester nursery school, addressing Ling Physical Education Conference; Tatler article containing portrait and other photographs
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