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Typed copy. Intermediate Base, M E F. Is to travel to Egypt, charms of active service, Lemnos, examples of red-tape, army should have paid officers more to attract better men, Archie Don.

Thanks for [recipient's] book, 'which seems to contain much that is excellent in thought & pleasing in versification'.

Edinburgh - Thanks WW for the tidal papers. JDF thinks of the mechanical theory of heat 'pretty much as you do. I intended to speak of it with great caution, and it seems to me that I have done so. I believe that there is a basis of fact for it or for part of it'. JDF expects that 'Thomson [William Thomson] and his friends' will be annoyed that he did not give Joule [James Prescott Joule] a section to himself: 'Thomson (admirer as he is of Faraday) would certainly not allow to see [Faraday] superior to Joule, about whom he is, to my conception, scarcely rational'. Has WW sent his suggestions to the Parliamentary Committee of the BAAS about promotion of science by the state?: 'I have recommended (selfishly no doubt) the endowing of existing professorships of science; but (not selfishly) that they should begin with those of Cambridge and Oxford'.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Notebook with just 2 pp. of notes, a collation of Parisinus grec 1637.

TPT sends WW another attempt at solving the difficulty about the Theory of Parallels [see TPT to WW, 26 June 1837]: 'What I seem to have arrived at, after more than forty years chase, to that the solution of the difficulty, though not in what is called (properly or improperly) the lower Geometry, is in the higher. And not in so very high either' [see his 'Geometry without Axioms. Or the First Books of Euclid's Elements', 1830]..

40 Weymouth Street - V[alentia] and Donne dined with the Archbishop who is not looking well, benefits of having whooping cough and measles when young, meanness and stupidity of radicals over Princess Louise's dowry, Civil list

Encloses a note from his nephew [no longer present] with a quotation from Spengler; Sraffa's understanding excellent and sound, but narrowly based.

Postcard. Blank on one side. With a note in HS's hand: 'Is this symbolical of your frame of mind, the Ultimate Fact of the Universe or What?'

Sent to Childers by Durrant's Press Cuttings agency.

Refers to her writing and regrets the 'imperfection of [her] experience, and of [her] knowledge generally'. Asks Sidgwick of his own experiences in writing. Had planned to leave leave town on 4 [June], but a problem with the house prevents them. Reports that she has been 'so much of an invalid lately' and that she is looking forward to the peace of the country.' A compensation for staying in town an extra week, she says, would be the pleasure of seeing friends.

1 p. typescript with MS corrections and calculations by Frisch.

With carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to A. Landi, 24 Jan. 1957

3 St. Edmund’s Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W. Apologises for sending her book without inscribing it to him; enjoyed Faithful Servants, and mentions a friend's work about a Sudanese servant of hers; expresses sympathy for his loss.

Letter declining invitation to the 1905 Apostles' dinner.