162 High Street, Camden Town, N.W. - His poetry has been supported by Houghton and Lord Palmerston; Palmerston granted him £150 from Royal Bounty Fund, faces destitution since Palmerston’s death; asks if Houghton will intercede with Earl Russell.
Including bills & references to Richard Monckton Milnes’s personal collections of books and MSS (except erotica, for which see DF/2).
Mattersea. - Re Milnes' appointment as a magistrate.
Black Swan, York. - Recommends Mr Noble for Governorship of York Castle; own incarceration there; domestic news. Adds postscript: will send a work of his nephew [William?]’s; flood at Ferrybridge; cordial reception by R. P. Milnes.
Castle House, Pomfret. Mr Skipwith of the Leeds Post Office seeking civil service post; local testimonials; petition against Sir James Graham's Bill; opposition to Milnes; family and farming news.
Corrected draft: unidentified hand.
Sending requested information on Irish clergy.
Travellers Club. - Concerning alleged bridge of etiquette over a hat belonging to Lord George Loftus.
Front of book used for 'Serious' quotations (labelled as such on f. 3), beginning with a poem on the death of her mother (d. Nov. 181), an extract from a letter from her mother to her and her sister Eliza, and letters from the Rev. William Hawkesley and her 'dear Aunt Mathew' on her mother's death. Loose sheet inserted between pp. 1-2.
Back of book used for 'Miscellaneous' quotations (labelled as such on f. 1), beginning with 'Mad[am]e de Maintenon's advice to a married woman'. Loose sheets inserted between pp. 38-29 and pp. 44-45.
Henrietta Maria's birth and married names written at both front and back of book.
Includes an essay dated 11 Jan. 1935 on proof tests of the CQR anchor in response to a point raised by Claud Worth, a letter relating to the Dutch Patent Application, with a bill from Boult, Wade & Tennant in June 1935, and three letters from George McKerrow dated 7 October to 23 November 1947.
MS pages numbered 3-41, with a note by G.K. Batchelor, 'Found in G.I's garage in a water-stained folder, July 1976'.
Although the pagination begins p.3, the paper begins 'Some months ago Sir J.J. Thomson suggested to me to try and find some explanation of the action of crystal rectifiers, and the experiments described in this paper are the results of this suggestion'. It seems therefore that the missing pages 1 and 2 did not include the substance of the paper.
Also included is correspondence re the paper between G.K. Batchelor and A.B. Pippard, 1976.
Letter from N. K. Adam on electric effects at surfaces.
The Independent obituary dated 14 January 1989. The Times obituary dated 30 January 1989.
Includes untitled 12pp ms draft beginning 'Let be a principal ideal domain of coefficients'.
American Physical Society, M.I.T., April 1946.
The Physical Society, Conference on Fundamental Particles and Low-Temperature Physics, Cambridge, July 1946.
University of Ghent Colloquium, invitation and letter of thanks from A. Berthelot, 1946-47.
Collège de France, Rutherford memorial meeting, 1947.
University of Birmingham, Conference 'Problems of Nuclear Physics', September 1948.
Notices of meetings, agendas, minutes and reports, arranged in chronological order.
Papers on secondary operations.
Meeting held 10 July 1945; Synge spoke on `Les moyens chimiques d'approche de la structure des protéines'.
Notice; correspondence re arrangements.
Folder also includes miscellaneous notes on the literature.
Printed pages to p. 224.
Simply "with many thanks" on letterhead of Hotel Rembrandt, South Kensington, SW.
Photograph of thirteen men posed in front of a pavilion with names, colleges, and sport in caption below, taken by Stearn & Sons, Cambridge. Besides Thompson for the High Jump, the group includes Harold Abrahams, President of the Athletic Club in front, E. C. Kennedy of Queens College (100 Yards, 2nd 1/4 Mile), A. G. G. Marshall of Jesus College (1/4 and 1/2 Mile), R. S. Starr of Christ's College (2nd Half Mile), J. J. Sweeney of Jesus College (Weight), and P. Wyn-Harris of Gonville and Caius College (3 Miles).
Oval photograph on mount with Mayland blind stamp, and caption "E. Willmot Jan 7. 1859."
Possibly part of E/4/3