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Obituaries, press cuttings, verse etc.

Material for Gaskell's book published in Oxford by the Clarendon Press, 1978, organised by Gaskell into folders mirroring the chapters in the book: introduction and theory, Harington, Milton, Richardson, Swift, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Hardy, Joyce, Stoppard, and photographs.

All items are manuscript.

This Section documents aspects of Thomson's education at the Perse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and his early research conducted at the Cavendish Laboratory under the direction of his father immediately before and after the First World War.

The material is presented as follows:
B.1 - B.10 School notebooks 1905-10
The earliest of these dates from Thomson's first year at the Perse School, Cambridge, and the subjects covered include English literature and the classics as well as science and mathematics. During his last year at school he attended A. Wood's lectures at Cambridge University, and his notes on these appear at B.5 - B.7.

B.11 - B.31 Cambridge University. Undergraduate notebooks and early research 1910-14
The majority of these contain notes on lectures attended by Thomson during this period, including some by his father (B.26, B.27, B.30).
Item B.31 documents Thomson's first research at the Cavendish Laboratory, where he began work on positive rays under his father's direction in the summer of 1913, to be interrupted a year later by the outbreak of war.

B.32 - B.39 Research in Cambridge 1919-22
After the First World War Thomson returned to the Cavendish to resume the work on positive rays, turning later to anode rays with which he discovered, simultaneously with F.W. Aston, that lithium comprises two isotopes of masses 6 and 7.
The notebooks continue to May 1922, after which Thomson accepted an appointment as Professor of Natural Philosophy at Aberdeen University.

Many of Thomson's notebooks were re-used at different periods of his life; sometimes the old pages were torn out, sometimes he restarted from the back of the book. Occasionally a single notebook contains very diverse material, such as B.2 (school exercises at one end and personal accounts for 1924-26 at the other) and E.60 (school exercises followed by notes on thermonuclear research).

This series consists of notebooks and lecture notes kept at three different institutions: Accrington Grammar School (B.1-22), The Victoria University of Manchester (B.23-54), and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.55-92).

With one exception, the notebooks from Accrington Grammar School (B.1-22) contain Davenport's notes and diagrams on physics, chemistry and mathematics, presumably work for the School Certificate (B.1-2) and the Higher School Certificate (B.3-17), although several are undated. Only B.22 shows Davenport's non-mathematical interests, containing extracts from various writers and drafts of two speeches, possibly delivered to a school debating society.

The notebooks and lecture notes from the Victoria University of Manchester (B.23-54) date from 1924-1927. B.23-30 are hardback notebooks arranged by the covering titles with which Davenport labelled them. Only two, B.24 and B.29, can be dated (1924-1925 and 1925-1926 respectively). None are indexed and only two are paginated (B.29-30). B.31-54 are loose ms. pages of notes on the literature, notes on lecture courses and class work and exercises by Davenport. Many bear an indication of the course number, or of the person giving the lectures and/or supervising the work. The material was kept in bulky wallet folders labelled by Davenport; the contents have been removed and where appropriate preserved in more than one folder for ease of reference. The original folders are at B.54. See B.85-87 for notes originally made at Manchester and subsequently used at Cambridge.

The notebooks and lecture notes from Trinity College, Cambridge (B.55-92) date from 1927-32. B.55-B.64 are hardback notebooks, and excepting B.63-64, all contain lecture notes. Davenport usually labelled the fly-leaves with the name of the lecturer, the subject of the course, and the date. These labels are used as titles here, and his descriptions are preserved in the entries. B.63 and B.64 are exceptions as they are without identification, but it is probable that they come from this period in Davenport's career. B.65-92 are loose ms. pages of notes, chiefly of lectures attended by Davenport. Usually they bear the name of the lecturer and the title of the course, and some are dated. The material was kept in wallet folders labelled by Davenport; the contents have been removed and, where appropriate, preserved in more than one folder for ease of reference. The original folders are at B.89.

Views of Trinity College and Cambridge consists primarily of prints and photographs. Albums that are a combination of portraits and views may be found in Add. V.M. C.

There were two clubs known as the Second Trinity Boat Club: one, from 1831 to 1838, often referred to as 'Reading Trinity;' and from 1840 to 1876, a second club with no connection to the original club of that name.

The paucity of material in this Section is regretted. It derives in part from Taylor's idiosyncratic working methods which led him to make random jottings on any piece of paper that came to hand; the folder in B.3 is characteristic, and many of the letters, committee papers and other documents in the collection bear notes, drawings and calculations of this kind. Even so, it is probable that many other notebooks have not survived.

University of Cambridge material has been arranged as follows:
1-72: Laboratory Funding
73-141: Laboratory Equipment
142-305: Laboratory Staff
306-314: Laboratory 'Research animals'
315-320: 'Laboratory'
321-342: Laboratory: Miscellaneous files
343-349: Trinity College
350-378: Teaching: Papers and correspondence relating to lecture courses in the Department of Physiology. Included are details of course content and organisation, lecture notes (some in Hodgkin's hand), timetables, memoranda to staff, agenda for staff meetings, lecture hand-outs etc.
379-394: School of Biological Sciences
395-435: Miscellaneous Papers: Includes material relating to the Oliver Gatty Fund, H. E. Durham Fund, Ernest Oppenheimer Fund, E. J. Bles Fund, material on the election of professors, and other administrative material.

Writings are listed in order of first production, or date of writing if not produced, with all associated correspondence, writings, and printed material gathered under the title. Many of the playscripts feature multiple revisions Shaffer made over the years as the plays were restaged.

There are playscripts for one play performed on television: 'The Salt Land', two plays for the radio: 'The Prodigal Father' and 'Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing?', and 14 plays for the theatre; four of these plays were adapted to screenplays by Shaffer: 'The Public Eye,' 'Equus,' 'Amadeus,' and 'Lettice and Lovage'.

Shaffer also kept full playscripts for two unproduced plays: ‘Our Lady of the Volcano’ and ‘The Syllabub Saloon’ and an unproduced screenplay, ‘Sir Lucas and the Two Sams.’ At least six more plays are represented by unfinished playscripts: ‘The Comedy of the Gourd’, ‘The Italian Play’, ‘Peter Shaffer, a Monologue with Interruptions’, ‘Cowl’, ‘The Danger Doll of the Dum Dum Desert’, his last unfinished play about Tchaikovsky’s last days, ‘Bezique’, an unfinished screenplay, ‘Richard IV,’ as well as a number of fragments of unfinished plays or screenplays.

Writings also include complete drafts of the published novel How Doth the Little Crocodile? and the unpublished ‘The King of Gongi.’ Unfinished stories include ‘The Bus Drove On’ and another about a Bevin Boy, as well as several others represented only by fragments.

After graduating in pure and applied mathematics from Melbourne University, Batchelor planned to study for a PhD at Cambridge, but the outbreak of WWII forced him to remain in Australia, where he undertook research on aeronautics. With encouragement from G I Taylor Batchelor sailed for England in January 1945 and was admitted a Research Student at Trinity College later that year. This section includes material from his time at Melbourne as well as early attempts to find funding for his researches.

The material in this section is arranged as follows:

B/1-B/679: Correspondence and papers, 1836-1952. Family and personal correspondence of Sir J. J. Thomson is at B/1-B/44. At B/45-B/639, the bulk of this section, is the correspondence and papers of Thomson's wife Rose Elizabeth, Lady Thomson (née Paget): most of this is incoming correspondence from family members and friends; there are also notebooks and diaries at B/570-B/594, correspondence from and material relating to societies, organisations, and appeals at B/595-B/635, and miscellaneous material at B/636-B/639.

There is also family and personal correspondence of other family members including their son George Paget Thomson, B/640-656, and daughter Joan Paget Thomson, B/657-B/658. The correspondence between family members is arranged by recipient, thus letters from J. J. Thomson to his wife are to be found in the incoming correspondence of Rose Thomson at B/45-B/53 rather than in the family correspondence of Thomson himself (B/1-B/6).

B/680-B/688: Photographs, 1917-1925

B/689-B/719: Accounts, 1888-1951. This material consists chiefly of Thomson household accounts, which were kept by Lady Thomson, and have been arranged, in chronological order.

B/720-B/731: Miscellaneous, 1918-1944

Drafts for a book of essays which had the earlier proposed title, "Essays on Hamlet problems." Some of these drafts are lecture scripts carrying revisions and with footnotes added. The sequence of the essays changed over time and consequently there are varying chapter numbers at the top of drafts of the same essay. Some essays are represented by one or two drafts, while others are represented by five or six drafts. One or two pages are written on verso of letters received in 1991 and 1992.