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Everingham, nr York. - Invitation for next week; wishes Cardinal Wiseman were in England to meet them; Lord John Russell hopes to annihilate him but persecution merely adds glory to the Church; hopes Milnes will get Everingham if confiscated 'and finish off Barnes's 34'. Marcia begs Milnes to come and be converted.

Will try to reserve ticket for Palgrave's wife if she cannot obtain one elsewhere; would like another copy of the large photograph; is not affronted by Reeve; pleased to see the relation of [? and Christ?] adhered to; Locker's book [Lyra Elegantiarum] scuppered by Forster's churlishness in claiming Landor copyright.

Re Mrs Woodruffe, née Cooper, of Pontefract.

184 Avenue Victor Hugo - Thanks him for his nice letter, her friends are very sympathetic; Canon Mugnier is sorry that he was not been able to thank Frazer for his book last Wednesday; is sorry Lady Frazer has been ill.

128 Avenue Emile Zola - Subscribes to the bibliography.

K.C.C. [King's College Cambridge], 'as from 9 Arlington Park Mansions, Chiswick, W.4.'. - Thanks Bessie for her telegram and letter. 'That suits beautifully [see TRER/ADD/65 for meeting being arranged here'; will arrive at Dorking North on the 11.56 train on Thursday [9 Sept].

Just returned from a visit to Madame G[ermanova]'s son Andrew in Switzerland; a wire has come from [Georges] Pitoëff saying that [Tolstoy's] "Cadavre Vivant" is not to be performed so Germanova is not going to England. She greatly regrets that she will not be able to visit the Shiffolds and make Mrs Trevelyan's acquaintance. They drove 1660 kilometres in Suhrawardy's new car; Dr Kidwall came with them to Bâle, from where he went to Lausanne, and joined them on the way back. Would love to come over to England for a few days, but it does not seem possible at the moment. Asks when Trevelyan will be going to Italy.

With feather enclosed.

Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee - Thanks him for the books [the last of the third edition of the GB?]; refers to a difficulty caused by Sam [Samuel McCall Frazer] selling Ninian's silver cup [Ninian Bannatyne Frazer].

Mattishall - received notice of the birth of Blakesley's son from Mr Chambers

Visit to deliver the Royal Society – Australian National University, John Curtin School of Medical Research 1986 Florey Lecture, 'Vaccine Prevention of Virus-Induced Human Cancers', 3–21 August 1986, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra. Sir Anthony was appointment the Royal Society' Florey Lecturer for 1986 to deliver the lecture and undertake the lecture tour in Australia.

29 Eaton Place - The Royal Society has determined that all the committee reports should be made general, and not specifically suited only to Captain Ross's [John Ross] voyage. Thus tides can now occupy a much larger place. Apart from the Physics committee, the others - Geology, Zoology and Botany - have set to work on preparing instructions for scientific travellers: 'so that they may in remote countries know how to add information when it is most wanted and Procure opinions of objects imperfectly known'. JWL believes he has discovered the true relation between elasticity and temperature in elastic fluids. Since this furnishes the condition of the atmosphere, he is testing it with light and hopes to produce a table of refractions.

Had been hoping to see her. Does not think that he shall be able to come until the end of term. Announces that he has written to William to say that he should be glad to stay with him at Oxford from 17 to 23 [December], when his mother is expected to be there. Intends to go to Rugby then for about a fortnight, from 23 December to 5 January. Asks if he may ask Graham Dakyns to stay with them then. Reports that he is pretty fully employed in Cambridge and is enjoying his work, but begins to 'feel the need of taking a little care of digestion etc.' Announces that he has discovered 'what to take for Lunch!', which he heralds as 'a great discovery'; a pot of Liebig's Entractum Carnis. Admits to be 'a little sad' at the way the elections there turned out. Encourages her to read Greater Britain by Dilke. Claims to read hardly any new books now. Reports that his new rooms are 'almost decent'. Asks her to tell Arthur that he consented 'in deference to people who ought to be wiser than [himself], not to bring forward [their] motions again this year: and therefore did not write for his signature'.

Illness of Robert Mayor

Talbot is afraid that his son [Charles Henry Talbot] will not do very well in the forthcoming college examinations: 'He is often unwell, but even when well he finds himself almost incapacitated from reading. It is a thing to be pitied for it does not arise from idleness...He says, I experience a complete want of mental energy', asks Whewell to mention this to his son's tutor Mathison. Will send him some new specimens of photoglyphic engraving, given the interest the Whewell's took in the subject, and which he has now much improved.

Has kept term at Lincoln's Inn, dined with Charles Tindal, visited Eton, catholic spirit arising in Trinity, Knox and Wells have been confirmed in the Catholic Church and one has lost his scholarship and the other has been sent down, both were greatly esteemed by the High Church party in the University,

Palatino (Rome). Dated 25.iii (1913) - Thanks him for the first volume on 'The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead'; it has made him think of the fear of death of the indigenous Siculi or Liguri who lived in the foothills of the Palatine, hopes to show him the mysterious [word missing] a new one just discovered under the oldest republican house under Domitian's Lararium; a doctor friend says he's seen a difference in the ways those in the north face death compared to those from the south; next May wants to go to Eton to examine some sketches, and will be doing a lecture in London, hopes to see them then.

Journey to Acton, John Bickersteth's duties: Acton

Presented to Thomson by the University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences, USA, for his work on the Physics of the electron'

Includes correspondence with A.C. Egerton.