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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.

With carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to L.M. Turpie, 16 Dec. 1957.

Press cuttings on announcement of appointment of Montagu Butler as Ltd-Governor of the Isle of Man, farewell activities of Butlers in Central Provinces, India, return to London, duties in the Isle of Man including Tynwald (see L117 below), Silver Jubilee of George V; family matters including Jock Butler's speeches at Cambridge Union Society debates, George Adam Smith's Honorary Degree of Cambridge University and retirement as Principal of Aberdeen University, marriage to Janet Adam Smith and Michael Roberts, few cuttings about RAB with galley proofs of his article on 'The new House of Commons' [1931] for Essex Farmers Journal; original letter of David Livingstone given to Ann, Lady Butler; photographs of Governor of Isle of Man at new harbour works, RAB with ?constituents

Drafts and calculations on `Is brain determinate?'
Both ends of book used.

Includes correspondence re dating of Chinese ceramics by electron diffraction, with a letter from A.L. Hetherington.

22 pp. typescript with ms. revisions.
Correspondence with J.R. Newman of Harpers

On Rennie Smith

With additional note to Mary, possibly from her sister Jean.