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46th St. Theater, New York - Is glad to hear that 'Five Finger Exercise' is still going well despite 'the invalid' and Juliet [Mills]'s absence; is glad he likes Peter Brook; is distressed to hear about Brian [?] showing him the letter about ['The Royal Hunt of the Sun']; he found the play discursive with too many characters and too slow in getting underway; opened ['The Ages of Man'] the night before, it has gotten rave reviews; had four days in Havana at Christmas; everyone talks of 'Five Finger Exercise', hopes to put it on there in September; sends his love.

Typescript, with emendations in Shaffer's hand.

. Most of the book has been left blank.

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.

Two mounted photographs, signed J Palmer Clarke at lower right. One depicts Great Court from the roof of the Chapel looking across to the fountain, and the southwest corner showing the diggings, preparation, large piles of dirt, paving, and pipes. The other shows approximately 125 workmen gathered on the steps outside the Hall, with the screens passage open and two windows on the southeast corner of the Essex building visible behind the group.

Hull Literary & Philosophical Society, Royal Institution, Albion Street, Hull. - Writes as desired by the Council of the Society to ask Houghton if he might deliver the Opening Address of the Session in November; invites Houghton to be his guest on this visit. Signs himself as President and Sheriff of Hull.

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.

(A cutting from a larger document.)

§ 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.)