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.
Including industrial and reformatory schools.
33 College Road..., Aberdeen. - 'Your letter has reached me here...'
Early biographical material compiled by Gow for his nephew Sir Michael Gow.
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.
1 p. MS notes, and a printed leaflet, n.d.
Created while in Vienna.
Scrapbook recording the life of a Trinity College student from 1899 to 1902, with programmes, menus, dance cards, college notices, club and society notices and memorabilia and other printed ephemera, as well as letters and photographs. Many items carry captions, though some people are identified only by their initials and many items are pasted down so that only their front cover is visible.
There is material relating to the Boat Club, Granta, the Pitt Club, the Trinity Foot Beagles, and the A.D.C., the Cambridge Old Haileyburian Club, and one or two items from the Nihilists Club, the Trinity Lawn Tennis Club, The Trinity Historical Society, and the Trinity Association Football club. There is also material from his summer holidays, with cards and notices from Newmarket, the Micklegate Ward Conservative Association and Club Cricket Match in August 1901, the Grasmere & Lake District Annual Athletic Sports Letters include those from Chancellor A. W. Ward regarding the selection of a play for the A.D.C. ("The Dean's Dilemma" by C. Tennyson and R. H. Malden), and two letters from R. C. Lehmann, Barry Pain, and Owen Seaman relating to Jones' work on Granta, and R. St. John Parry about the gift of a letter from Sir W. Gilbert to Trinity College Library (now catalogued as Add. MS c. 1/147). Menus include those for formal events and dances, as well as private dinners in Cambridge and at Trinity, and other diners are often recorded, A. A. Milne appearing as a fellow diner twice. Names of those friends who appear often in the scrapbook are: J. S. Agnew, J. W. Cropper, K. V. Elphinstone, J. G. Gordon, V. P. Powell, G. B. Wainwright, E. Wyatt-Davies, and J. R. Wharton.
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.