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Inscribed to Whewell by the author.

23 Suffolk St., Pall Mall - JDF's days in Cambridge 'were some of the happiest of my life'. He regrets that he did not have the opportunity to have had 'a systematic education within the walls of Trinity'. JDF is devoted to the pursuit of the physical sciences: 'in the present state of Science a liberal basis of mathematical knowledge is indispensable to its successful prosecution'. JDF has never had a lesson in mathematics and has taught himself from book one of Euclid to the integral calculus. 'It is one of the current mistakes of the present popularizing system to imagine that difficulties in the pursuit of knowledge are confined to the lower classes'. Could WW point out to him a course of study to assist his work in the theory of heat and the science of meteorology.

Penshuret (on embossed notepaper, 77 Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, W.) - Recommends J. H. Woodward for Secretaryship of Newspaper Press scrubs: he was a Bristol clergyman but has been out of work since converting to Roman Catholicism fifteen years ago.

Copy in unidentified hand. Letters dated 14 Jan. 1726, 11 Feb. 1726, and 26 May 1727. On court affairs, including Jacobite concerns.

The Pickeridge, Slough. - Delepierre has put the first part if his Hackness Ghost Story to type but has left out 'the part of/on Hamlet' [?] for reasons of space; encloses Delepierre's reply to Perry's questioning of this [no longer present], which entrusts decision to Houghton. George Fortescue's discovery of further Van den Bempde papers at Dropmore, perhaps undisturbed since 1725, which include State correspondence of the time of James I; theories about history of the papers.

This file contains letters to Eddington’s mother from John W. Graham, Principal of Dalton Hall, the Quaker hall of residence where Eddington lived while he was at Owen’s College, Manchester.

These papers are all in Eddington’s own hand. None is explicitly dated.

Re Thomson's membership of the Instruments Committee.

On embossed notepaper, 30 Prince's Gate, W. - Volume of Ballads now ready, but Whittingham has not sent Houghton the leaves of ownership to sign; perhaps he could call there.

'Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society', 23, 1977, pp.529-556 (by P.B. Moon).
'Contemporary Physics', 17, no.1, 1976.
'The Times', 12 September 1975.
2 pp. account of Thomson's life and work, by O.R. Frisch, n.d. [1975].
Photocopy of a printed collection of messages and photographs assembled by Thomson's younger daughter, Rose Bell, in honour of his 80th birthday, contributors include many of Thomson's friends as well as members of his own family.