With carbon copy of reply from R. A. Butler,
9 Esplanade, Lowestoft - Sends detailed instructions to the use of a hanging desk to enable an invalid to read in bed, which he and Mrs Blakesley have devised for him.
Warwick Castle. - On the death of Robert Pemberton Milnes, who was 'always a kind friend' and 'almost the last' of Mexborough's old friends still alive.
Sidney Sussex. Process of appointment of the Harrow headmaster.
News of the Prince of Wales’s visit [to Bombay] will be found in Lloyd’s reports. Things are quiet there now, though bitterness between different sections of the population may cause further trouble. The Khilafat movement is still active across the country in bringing about hartals and intimidating the public, particularly in Delhi, where volunteers are picketing foreign cloth shops. Reading has sent for the Chief Commissioner, as strong steps must be taken. Council has decided to urge Local Governments to take all available means to prevent disorder. They are awaiting Gandhi’s next step. He has arranged to reply to a deputation of Mohammedans on Saturday.
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§ 79. The EF-frame.
§ 80. Chirality of a double frame.
§ 81. The interchange operator.
§ 82. Duals.
§ 83. The CD-frame.
§ 84. Double-wave vectors.
§ 85. The 136-dimensional phase space.
§ 86. Uranoid and aether.
§ 87. The Riemann-Christoffel tensor.
§ 88. The de Sitter universe.
§ 89. The tensor identities.
§ 90. The contracted Riemann-Christoffel tensor.
§ 91. States and interstates.
§ 92. The recalcitrant terms.
§ 12. Object-fields.
§ 13. The rigid field convention.
§ 14. Separation of particle and field energy.
§ 15. Application to scale-free systems.
§ 16. Standard carriers.
§ 17. Mass-ratio of the proton and electron.
§ 18. The fine-structure constant.
§ 19. Rigid coordinates.
§ 20. Unsteady states.
§ 21. The inversion of energy.
(Drafted Dec. 1942; revised Aug. 1943.)
Clarendon Press, Oxford.—The gap in the proofs is due to the fact that the sorts needed for this section are not yet ready.
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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
13 December 1926
Dear Sir,
You will notice in your proofs that there is a gap between slips 94A and 96B, this is due to the fact that the peculiar sorts needed for this section are not yet ready, and we did not want to delay proofs more than was necessary.
Yours faithfully,
E. A. Bowen
R. B. McKerrow Esq.
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Typed, except signature and a correction. At the head is the reference ‘3249/EAB’.
(This proof, which is marked at the head, ‘Proof | Nov. 26’, contains Chapter 1 and the first page of Chapter 2. Book VII of this work was published in 1874.)