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Highgate. - Encloses a correction slip [no longer present] for p 214 of his book of translations from Italian.

Letter, 15 Oct. 1883, from J. W. L. Glaisher to the mother of a young man who may wish to become a student at Trinity, explaining what needs to be done to seek admission, the unlikelihood of his getting a college room in his first year, and the difficulty of estimating an undergraduate's expenditure. Enclosing a printed sheet with information on the entrance examinations to be held in Jan. 1884; a certificate at the bottom is to be to be filled in and returned to the College Tutor. There is also a printed folded sheet with information relating to non-collegiate students at Cambridge.

The prospective student is most likely William Hastings Bagshaw, son of William Edward Bradshaw of Pitt Place, Epsom, given the provenance of the documents; he was admitted as a student at Cambridge in October 1884, but at Pembroke rather than Trinity. His mother was Maria Roberts Bagshawe.

Steps to be taken to increase the endowment of St Catherine's in Gloucester

Smallpox at Milton, invites James Henry Monk to stay, agricultural labourers starving

(Partly printed in Goulburn, i. 1–2, 82–90.)

§ 93. The metastable states of hydrogen.
§ 94. Neutrium and deuterium.
§ 95. Mass of the neutron.
§ 96. Double intracules.
§ 97. Comparison with field theory.
§ 98. Mass of the deuterium atom.
§ 99. Mass of the helium atom.
§ 100. The separation constant of isobaric doublets.
§ 101. Isotopic spin.
§ 102. Radii of nuclei.
§ 103. The nuclear planoid.
§ 104. Mass of the mesotron.

One with illegible note addressed to A. S. F. Gow on reverse.

WW has just written a letter to JCH concerning the importance of his experiment to measure the density of the earth and therefore his inability to return for the forthcoming elections at Cambridge [see WW to JCH, 4 June 1826]. If JCH is not going to Cambridge he should get somebody else to open the letter he addressed to him and deal with the contents. WW and George Airy 'are working hard and getting on as well as the nature of our trade allows which is to carry 7 chronometers up and down 1200 feet of vertical ladders every day, and to watch the dangling of a brass bar with a brass bob at the end of it'.

Field surveys, ground plan and elevation of a dam on the floodplain of the Wadi el-Me, accompanied by a photocopy. Bradfield notes "In order of descent, 5."

Read at a meeting of the Brynmelyn Literary Society on 31 Jan. 1898.

Claremont, Leeds. - Last year asked if Houghton might be able to deliver the Opening Address at the beginning of the new session of the Philosophical & Literary Society; Houghton looked favourably on the request, but in the end was not able to fulfil it. Heaton has been re-elected President of the Society, and asks if Houghton would be able to deliver the address this year, which 'would gratify a large number of members of the Society which has on its roll six hundred of the most educated and influential inhabitants of Leeds'.

Leigham - Will be pleased if the parents to whom Blakesley has recommended him send their children to his school as he now has only 5 pupils, has become curate of Egg Buckland, unsuccessful attempt to gain a valuable hereditary living in Gloucestershire, has visited North Wales

Headed notepaper, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 16, New Burlington St, S. W.

Addresses by the Orator given at the installation of the Chancellor, and at Congregation for the award of honorary degrees to Cyril Forster Garbett, Winston Churchill, Geoffrey Hare Clayton, Norman Alexander Robertson, Leif Egeland, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps; Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington; Charles Seymour; John Forbes Cameron; Sir Hugh Lett; Sir William Wilson Jameson; Sir Richard Winn Livingstone; Sir Robert Robinson, Sir Paul Gordon Fildes, and Arnold Joseph Toynbee.

Drumore, Blairgowrie, N.B. Dated October 1, 1909 - Thanks him for ['Passages of the Bible'], thinks the Authorised Version of the Bible is the channel through which the Classics have exercised their best influence.

Pontefract. - Is greatly pained not to be able to settle Milnes' account with him; has 'made every effort' and is prepared to transfer 'security for double its account' and to secure Ag[ricultura]l [?] Pont[efract] stock and to increase the interest due; can offer £150 worth of stock tomorrow at Doncaster. Adds a postscript: if Milnes wishes it he will 'find a part to [?] assistance in discharging your acct. I will not lose your kind offices'.