Sraffa drew on notes from as early as 1926 when preparing this work. Annotations dating from the 1950s made on the files in which these notes were kept indicate the items that Sraffa felt were most important, and which were often removed to other files as he was preparing for publication, they also show his dissatisfaction with areas of his earlier work. Notes and formulae by Abram Besicovitch and others are evident in a number of these files
Sends some enclosures [not included]. Discusses his difficulties with the following term, during which he is to be in London a lot. Asks for advice as to how he may manage his time.
With a later note at top indicating that it accompanied a copy of Carrière's De psalterio Salominis disquisitionem historitico-criticam, 1870.
Sem títuloNotes by Sir Manubhai Mehta on railway jurisdiction in States territories and extradition, circulated to Consultative Committee of Round Table Conference
Picture postcard of Emperor Matsuhito of Japan; signed by T. Kawamura, Z. Tanaka and K Matsuki, Japaneses delegates at the Rome Postal Conference.
96 Bryn Road Swansea. - Thanks for detective magazines; would like to stay in Wales all September; might publish by Christmas.
Typed on back of printed examination papers, 1907-1915, for entrance; scholarships and exhibitions etc.
Francis Cornford playing the piano a lot, he afraid of playing piano in college except on Sunday afternoons as it puts Aldis Wright in a passion
93 Grosvenor Road, London SW - Wedding of the Duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck, shooting:
Two letters from H. L. Greenfield to Dr Parry, and one letter from Dorothea Pertz to Dr Parry about an oil sketch by Miss Margaret Bernardine Hall, with a description of the circumstances of its creation.
18 Mansfield Street, London.—Bad weather and a lack of moral courage have brought him back to London for tomorrow [i.e. for the Coronation].
Embossed notepaper, Ilsington Villa, Albion Road, South Hampstead.