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The first 15 letters are by A. P. Rollett; the rest are by his son J. M. Rollet, who continued the correspondence after his father's death in July 1968. A few of the letters by J. M. Rollett bear annotations by G. K. Batchelor.

14 Great College Street, Westminster.

Carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to Sir David Gammans, 29 Jul. 1953

With carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to Col. J.P. Kellett, 18 Jan. 1957

Trinity College, Cambridge. - Has given Fulcher King's instructions; discussion of patterns for new paper for King's front sitting room. Has also asked Hitzman to remove King's clocks to prevent their being 'damaged by dust and by being handled unintelligently'.

'Prior has bought a horse in the existence of which I did not for a long time believe. I suggested that it must be a rocking horse... but at last Hughes has been out for a ride with him and seen that the animal is really in being, In going through Haslingfield all the children turned out to see him'.

Wotton Lodge Nursing Home, Gloucester. - The tumour in Catherine's breast (see 1/114) proved to be cancer, and she has undergone an extensive operation. She will have to have X-ray treatment for some time.

13a Hanover Terrace W11. - Would very much like to come next Saturday; asks whether he can be a paying guest. Wants to stay away from town until 2 July, when he will go to Cambridge. This week will stay with Forster.

The Master's Lodge, Downing College, Cambridge - Accepts an invitation to dine at Trinity on 17 November to meet Paul Painlevé, with whom he had some correspondence when he was Vice-Chancellor.

Aldeburgh - Has been reading ['The Belief in Immortality'?] and comments on the pathetic procession of humanity to the grave in vain hopes of immortality. Thanks them for their visit and hopes to see them in 1925.

Eleanor [House], West Wittering, Chichester, Sussex. - Has just got Bob's letter; unfortunately will not be back at Tidmarsh before 8 September; hopes Bob will be able to visit some other time. Is going to Charleston after this for 'a short breathing space before another bout of "Queen Victoria"'.

Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Headed 'Private'. Encloses a letter from Aunt Annie [Philips: 13/229]. Suggests that if Bob does decide to write to their father as she suggests, he should begin by saying that he does not know whether their mother is 'really likely to leave us quite soon', but understands from Aunt Annie that this is a possibility, and that he is anxious that in that event their father should not hurry to leave Welcombe. Also thinks that Bob should say he and Bessie have 'no thought of moving into Welcombe' themselves.

110 Banbury Road, Oxford.—Asks whether the vocabulary-sheets arrived safely and responds to his comments on the translation. ‘As for the Ciceronians, I feel like translating Jovius’ whole folio for a change from Colonna.’ Gives the address of the editor of English, because when Smith is ready to publish on Wordsworth, say, it may be useful to have access to a journal that pays in cash rather than in offprints like the Modern Language Review.

Postmarked Weybridge. - Very glad about H.A. [?] and the baby, as is his mother. Has received the large new Jane Austen [the first Clarendon Press edition] as a gift; an exhortation to throw [Aldous Huxley's "Antic Hay"] 'into the lake'.

With additional note to Mary from her sister Jean.

NATO Advanced Studies Institute Immunological Adjuvants and Vaccines, 24 June–5 July 1988, Cape Sounion Beach

Trinity College - Will RJ look over WW's 'Physical Theology' ['Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology', 1833]...and say how far you think the selection of arguments and the mode of presenting them will answer the purpose'. WW hears that RJ is to be reviewed in the Edinburgh Review by McCulloch [J.R. McCulloch] - 'so prepare for a flogging'.

29 Keppel Street - Thanks WW for his cheque for £100. Colonel Sabine wants some registering apparatus to send to the Toronto observatory by the end of this month. Asks if it is acceptable to give him one of WW's time-pieces and a mirror which he can replace in a month or so. To help CB get remuneration George Airy promises to report to the Government the success of his apparatus. John Herschel, Henry De La Beche and Colonel Sykes think the observatory at Kew ought to be under the auspices of Government and made a depot for meteorological science. If such a plan took place CB would like a permanent situation.

Encloses letter from John Ryle [no longer present]; describes Ryle as 'very well informed'.