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Case of the Dean of Westminster

Edinburgh - Is it true that Robert L. Ellis has died? Ever since JDF first met him some twenty years ago in Bath, 'I have felt a lively interest, amounting to a kind of fascination' in him. If he is dead 'I hope that some one who could do him justice will write a short memorial of him'. Has WW heard anything of a 'supposed discovery by Dr Tyndall [John Tyndall] in the theory of glaciers?' From what JDF has heard, it 'consists in showing the brittleness of ice and the facility of its reintegration. Now this I thought had been proved by me to be the cause of the 'veined structure' as resulting from the partial sliding of a infinity of bruised surfaces into which the ice is split when ever the differential velocity of the glacier is considerable'.

Includes a letter from J. Cates and discussion of letters of Isaac Newton

Largely pamphlets, memos and copies of Command Papers, including article by RAB on future of Technical Colleges, RAB's messages to first issue of The Essex Teacher and to The Rayoneer (as Chairman of Courtaulds Central Education Committee). Correspondence and papers re proposed block grant funding of local authorities

Seelig, C. 1955-56

Segré, E. 1933, 1979. Correspondence 1979 contains recollections of atomic energy research.

Serber, R. 1948

In French.

9 Grand Parade, St. Leonards, Sussex. - Her husband sends 'thanks and greetings'; very kind of Trevelyan to remember him. He has gone downhill a great deal since last Christmas: he is now 'almost entirely bedridden' [with arthritis], cannot use his right hand and is hardly able to use his right, and his joints are very painful; he is pleased to know he is 'not forgotten by friends'. Ursula Wood is 'wonderful & his friendship with her, by letter, is his greatest pleasure'.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Glad to get Elizabeth's card and find she was out again; she must take care of herself; glad the weather has improved. Herbert Paul, Theodore [Llewelyn Davies], and Mr [J. W.] Mackail are staying with them; Mrs Paul and Mrs Mackail are ill. They make an 'amusing trio, & the talk is very good'. Hopes the Booths will reach Ravello soon; Theodore has seen some of the family and thinks Charles plays to stay at Ravello with Meg for a while; he will be good company, but they 'must not let him convert [them] to Protection[ism]!'. Very pleased by the North Dorset [by-]election; thinks the country is 'heartily sick of the Tories' but that they will keep hold of office for 'some time longer'. Sir George does not know Mr [Thomas Stewart] Omond, but he seems to have written many things as well as his book on [poetic] metres. She and Booa [Mary Prestwich] are pleased the shoes fit Elizabeth. Planning to go to London on 16 February.

37 Alfred Place W., S. Kensington, S.W. - Is very sorry not to be able to visit Trevelyan; has been 'suddenly attacked by the illness' to which he is subject, of 'a harassing nature', and will have to be 'careful' for some time. Hopes that before Trevelyan leaves England they might see each other. Asks in a postscript if Trevelyan could send him his book ["The Bride of Dionysus"?].

Wixenford, Eversley. - Glad that Bobby's report [originally enclosed] is again 'a satisfactory one': he has done 'well all round' and would have done very well with a 'little more briskness'. Feels his 'continued rapid growth' may be slowing progress, so has suggested to the Matron [Elizabeth Bartlett?] she should ask Mrs Trevelyan if he can take the tonic he took last year for a few weeks. His conduct has been excellent, and 'with the approval of all the masters' he has been given the senior boys' 'little privileges of walking alone etc'; thinks he has 'just the kind of character that grows with increasing responsibilities'. Thinks Bobbie intends to work hard and be higher in class by the end of term; he 'did decidedly best' in the Greek exercises they are just beginning.

St. Giles, Chesterton Lane, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer, hopes both are well after their 'missionary time in Edinburgh'.

Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum - Thanks him for his letter replying to his about Tonga trilithons [FRAZ/1/92], is convinced that Frazer's explanation is correct and that there is only one, was misled by Brenchley's account which derived from his officer Foljambe's report and drawing; a recent edition of 'Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands' reports only one; it is possible the other collapsed or became overgrown, perhaps W. C. McKern could settle the question; there is an interesting account by Hambruch of the Ponape ruins in the Carolines in "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anthropologie", XLII, 1911: he has spoken to Hambruch and knows he has a great deal of material. Accompanied by an envelope.

20 Marmion Rd, Liverpool. - Gives the dates for his forthcoming lecture tour of the Netherlands: Hilversum; Nijmegen: Haarlem: Arnhem; and The Hague, from 10-14 October. Does not know yet where he will be staying. It is very kind of Bessie to write to people there.