Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies
Cards re committees to consider formation of an International Union in Radio-Telegraphy, and an International Union in Mathematics.
Deschamps
Folder also includes miscellaneous notes on the literature.
University of Aberdeen Examination Book containing descriptions and diagrams of apparatus, notes of experimental results
Includes correspondence re electron diffraction. 1935, 1945
Most of the letters are from people noted in the fields of literary studies and bibliography.
All these items relate personally to R. B. McKerrow, except those described as printed. Most of the rest are printed forms filled up by hand.
The items described under this head are, with one exception, autograph manuscripts of short stories written by McKerrow in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. The exception, B1/4, is a series of numbered press-copy sheets, containing a copy of the story ‘The Inevitable Morning’ (B1/3), together with copies of five poems, the originals of which are in B2/13 and B2/15.
The earliest story, ‘Our Trip up “The River”’ (B1/1), was, according to McKerrow’s later annotation, ‘a contribution to a magazine that I tried to start at Wedderlie’. It is in three parts, the first two of which conclude with the words ‘To be continued in our next’. It is unclear whether Wedderlie refers to what Bartholomew’s Gazetteer (1914) calls a ‘shooting-lodge and stream, 1¼ m. NE. of Westruther, Berwickshire’, or some other place; it may be noted, however, that the events related in McKerrow’s story ‘A Strange Adventure’ are said to have occurred while the narrator was spending the autumn at ‘a small house on one of the Scotch moors’. From the style, subject-matter, and handwriting, it must have been written in the 1880s. ‘A Strange Adventure’ (B1/2), which was submitted unsuccessfully to Chambers’s Journal in 1892, was presumably written the same year. ‘The Inevitable Morning’ (B1/3)—the title of which may derive from Emerson’s poem ‘The World-Soul’—is subscribed with the pseudonym ‘Kenneth Niel’ and was written about the same time as a group of poems (B2/13) submitted under the same pseudonym to the Yellow Book about January 1895 (Henry Harland’s letter of rejection is dated the 14th). The next five stories (B1/5–9) are explicitly dated. The dates of the last three items (B1/8–10) are uncertain, but they were probably written at some time in the latter half of the eighteen-nineties.
'MT 111 Algebra, Michaelmas Term 1966' lecture notes.
This material documents Larkin's academic career, his participation in Trinity athletics, accompanied by a memorabilia from other Trinity College events, including dinner invitations, menus, and a programme for the 1967 May Ball.
Includes Halstead meeting when RAB prospective parliamentary candidate, maiden speech, agricultural matters and Essex meetings, Geoffrey Lloyd as prospective parliamentary candidate
Draft of the preface and notes dated Dec. 1871; corrected proofs dated Feb.-Mar. 1872, incomplete, with some sections represented by multiple copies with the same corrections and one corrected proof. Accompanied by an uncut page proof of the 1876 edition.
Miscellaneous bank and personal accounts, insurance etc,
Including references to portraits of Houghton; anecdotes and reminiscences by others; notes for biographies etc: some after Houghton's death.