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Letters from William Wyon
Add. MS c/91/109-112 · Item · 1849-1850
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Letters relating to the Wrangham medal, making reference to the design (5 Feb. 1849) and production of the medals (21 Jan., 6 Feb. and 8 Oct. 1850).

Gordon, A. H.
SYNG/J/109-114 · File · 1940-1977
Part of Papers of Richard Synge

Correspondence. Gordon was Synge's colleague at the Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds from 1941. He spent periods in Denmark, Czechoslovakia and Sweden, 1948-1950 before starting at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London in June 1950.

J/109: c 1940-1945
J/110: 1946-1947
J/111: 1948-1950
J/112: 1950-1957
J/113: 1961-1965, 1977. Correspondence 1977 from includes typescript draft (with manuscript revision) by Gordon 'How paper chromatography was discovered'.
J/114: Principally undated letters from Leeds.

Hardy, G. H.
DAVT/G/109-114 · Item · 1938-47, nd 
Part of Papers of Harold Davenport

Hardy's communications are letters and cards in his distinctive spiky handwriting, often with parentheses and balloons of afterthoughts, some in pencil and few dated other than by postmark.
G.109: 1938, 1939
G.110: 1940. Appeal on behalf of H. Heilbronn.
G.111: 1941, nd. Undated letter (perhaps 1942) refers to 'an undergraduate here called Dyson who is very promising' [F. J. Dyson].
G.112: 1944, May-Dec. and nd. Mainly on revisions of `Hardy-Wright' but including a little general mathematical information.
G.113: 1944. Davenport's letter and revision of Chapter 24, October, and miscellaneous comments on other parts of book.
G.114: 1945, 1946, 1947.

Add. MS c/1/109-132 · Item · 1813-1829
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Fifteen letters from William Whewell, five letters from H. P. Hamilton, one each from Charles Heathcote and Christopher Wordsworth, and two from James C. Franks.

Whittaker, John William (1791-1854) Church of England clergyman
MCKW/D/7/10a · Item · 27 July 1928
Part of Papers of R. B. McKerrow

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Sends some photographs of Amy ‘to gratify the boys’ interest in what their mother looked like long ago’. Thanks Mr McKerrow for the loan of ‘Babbitt’.

(The illustration is from a photograph captioned ‘Gathering Mists: The Scawfell Range from Bow Fell’.)

MONT II/A/3/10/10a · Item · 25 Oct. 1921
Part of Papers of Edwin Montagu, Part II

1 Carlton House Terrace, S.W.—Reading’s long telegram [A3/10/6] gives no clear impression of definite purpose or moral strength, and he seems to be constrained from acting by fears that his advice about the Prince of Wales’s visit will not be justified by the consequences. Agrees to intervene in the debate, if possible.

SHAF/B/10/2/10a · Item · 1974
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Bard Books edition paperback with Shaffer's emendations at the end of Acts I and II. There is an inscription to Ruth from Eddie at the front, which does not appear immediately related to Shaffer, and it is not clear what date the emendations were made.

MAYR/I/206/10a · Part · 22 Apr. 1879
Part of Mayor Papers

Photograph by [Albert Eugene] Fradelle, 246 Regent St, London. 'Dr Murchison | Photographed April 22 1879' is written below; the date has been carefully recorded since Murchison died next day.

MAYR/K/1/10a · Part · [19th cent.]
Part of Mayor Papers

Ink and watercolour sketches of scenes in Kenilworth are painted directly onto the page above and below this photograph and those of two of Mayor's sisters next to it: the scenes are labeled 'The Priory', 'Kenilworth' [showing the castle], 'Inch Brook' and 'Abbey Gateway, Kenilworth'.