Description of a collision on the Metropolitan Railway
Collingwood - If JH's newly married daughter [Maria] and husband are now with WW could he give Maria the annexed. The wedding 'went off very prettily'. A Mr Prescott, a man of high scientific learning, very cultivated and an agreeable person, is going to take up residence in Cambridge. Prescott is an old Trinitarian and would like to be introduced to WW.
Urania (1964)
World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics (1957, 1963)
Requests to write articles (declined).
Dolder Grand Hotel, CH-8032 Zurich - Thanks him for his and Robert [Leonard]'s hospitality in New York; is glad he is writing again, mentions a BBC programme about Dan J[acobson?] that he missed; shares news of the 'Amadeus' premiere, EMI say that 10% of the house will have to go to the Cinematograph Benevolent Society, Nadine [?] has beaten them down to 5% which he thinks still too high; in a postscript, he says Ginnie Airlie [Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie] says 'there is no housekeeper, maid, chatelaine, or whatever at Balmoral called Brenda........'
'Kinawanua' Gordon N.S.W. Dated November 13th 1912 - Will talk to Prof. [Baldwin] Spencer about the Arunta people; encloses a note [not transcribed] about the belief of sympathetic magic, and something further he took from a woman named Mrs Atkinson about and unidentified practice; would like the Frazers to come when the British Association for the Advancement of Science comes to Australia in 1914.
Congratulations on engagement.
[At top: Harold Prince] - 'I said it all last night: thank you.'
Feather, N. 1940 (Frisch's carbon only), 1942
Freundlich, H.J. 1941-42. Letter of 12 November 1941 has 'A Postscript by Kowarski'.
(Carbon copy of a typed original.)
Enclosing lock of hair from a god-daughter of Mary Babington - perhaps Lydia's daughter Mary?
Rose, Lydia (1789-1880), née Babington, wife of Joseph RoseCL gives some brief comments made by Lockhart [John Gibson Lockhart - editor of the Quarterly Review] concerning WW's article [Review of 'Lyell's 'Principles of Geology', volume 2', Quarterly Review, 1832].