38 Clarges St. - Sets down enquiry which Milnes agreed to place before Mignet or Guizot; found reference in the second edition of the Handbook of Spain, which does not favour Mignet; will write separately if appropriate. Appends enquiry about obtaining access to Gonzalez' abstract of letters written by companions of Charles V to Secretary Vasquez, said to be in Mignet's possession, for a life of Don Juan of Austria.
38 French Gate, Doncaster. - Solicits Houghton’s vote to obtain school place for his son Francis; political support in spite of the fact that 'you sometimes went so far that if it had not been for personal esteem for yourself us Tories would have gone Dead against you'; service with Volunteers and other local activities; family background.
Woodside Lodge.
(An engraved form, filled up by hand, including an engraving of the Museum by E. H. New, 1910.)
Re letter from Stanley Bell of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Lancs, Cheshire and Westmorland Area [R. A. Butler/B/18/10]
Including congratulations from Alan Kerr (Tutor, Trinity College).
Some identified on verso.
Acknowledges donation of £100, wishes to establish a fund for a memorial to J H Monk
Bill due to William Whewell, and sent 'With Mr Whewell's compliments'.
On similar subject to 'The particles of physics: what kind of pattern?' 13 pp. typescript, n.d. early 1950s.
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'.
Transcript of broadcast in BBC Third Programme, 10 December 1965, with contributions by Thomson and many colleagues.
Broadcast on BBC General Overseas Programme
13 pp. typescript with 2 Appendices
Includes correspondence with:
Jessie I. Beck, 1969
John S. Bunt (Taylor's bequest of his portrait to Glenn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea), 1969
Margaret Deacon (taped interviews with Taylor), 1969
Tudor Griffiths (his profile of Taylor, see A.4), 1972
Jack Hanson (history of Royal Aeronautical Establishment, etc.), 1968
Roy MacLeod (Taylor's papers), 1972
Marie Slocombe (BBC Sound Archives), 1970