Congratulates Shaffer on the superb film.
Embossed Reform Club notepaper.
Correspondence addressed to Margaret Taylor.
7 Camden St & T - Notes that Whewell is 'propagating an undulation through the College - a very elastic medium'. He hopes the matter will not lead to a gown (nominalist) and town (realist) dispute. He suspects Aristotle shares the fate of Euclid, namely, that 'everybody believed him to be so near perfection, as to be willing to give him the finishing touch'. Ptolemy - 'the real original -' has escaped this fate because he 'was comparatively little read'. He is sorry Whewell is against the Royal Commission since it 'would much tend to open the public eye to what the Univ. really do - So very little is known about them that something of the kind is much wanted'. In a postscript, he adds a humorous definition of metaphysics.
JDF encloses a letter he received from William Thomson [not present], in which he answers a question JDF put to him regarding 'Faraday's and Tyndall's views of the polarity of Bismuth. For myself I can attach no meaning to the magnetic of space per se' [John Tyndall. On the Existence of a Magnetic Medium in Space, 1855].
One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Utrecht Gr. 13. With a typescript note from A. S. F. Gow to Powell dated 9 June 1935, two typescript drafts of "A lost manuscript of Cicero", one of them corrected, and one sheet of notes laid in loose.
Powell, John Enoch (1912-1998), politician
Will be glad to help in the translation of German critiques of English philosophy, studying Mill and Coleridge: Wickersley, Rotherham
Esther Simpson was for many years Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, in which capacity Frisch first became acquainted with her. She also shared his love of music, often referred to in the letters.
Correspondence 1965-66 refers to the presentation fund on her retirement in 1966, correspondence 1978 refers to later presentation.
On a constituent's complaint against the Passport Office
10 Northwick House, St John's Wood Rd, NW 8. Encloses his book, which has been privately printed.
29 Welbeck Street, W. Two letters, one dated 23 Oct. 1866 in which he asks for instructions regarding the Macaulay statue, its delivery, the pedestal, and shares his thoughts on the three positions considered eligible: the Library, the Library staircase, and the Antechapel; also asks for instructions as to the bust of Kemble. The second letter dated 4 Nov. 1866 relates news that the presentation of the Macaulay statue needs to stand over until Parliament meets; he hassent off the Kemble bust, and Mr Donne promised he would write Thompson a formal letter on the subject.