Lund. - Thanks Duff for his letter of 2 Apr.; is grateful for the interest shown in his lecture. Discussion of the definition of the word 'fact', and of the 'concept of "performative utterances"'. The days he spent in Cambridge a year ago 'remain as one of the most pleasant memories of my life'. Sends Duff his 'little book on "The Problem of the Monetary Unit"'.
Explains that she heard from [James] Bryce that Nora would like to have part of Henry Sidgwick's correspondence with her father [Arthur John Patterson]. Reports that she has spoken to her mother, who will be happy for Nora to have the letter as soon as they get back to town, which will be in the early part of September.
Patterson, Charlotte Frances (b 1872) daughter of Arthur John PattersonNotebook entitled 'EM (Electron Micrograph) Specimen Preparation', including a page of notes from 18 February 1964 on the first discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus via a micrograph.
She and her husband Julian Glover are actors and are often disappointed when they go see certain plays lauded by the critics and loved by audiences; just went to see 'The Battle of Shrivings' and found it so exciting that they stayed up late talking of it, thinks it an important play; thinks some may liken it to Albee's 'Tiny Alice' but she thinks that pretentious and boring in comparison, though she likes Albee; is going to see Shrivings again.
Typescript pages heavily revised by Shaffer in a folder labelled "Shrivings. Act II."
Contains both original newsprint cuttings and photomechanical copies, and an entire issue of Time magazine dated 11 Nov. 1974, and typescripts of television and radio reviews.
Screenplay adapted from the play by Anthony Shaffer for Castle Rock Films accompanied by a letter from Judy Daish Associates Ltd to Patricia Macnaughton dated 21 Feb. 2007.
To AS's great sorrow he was unable to attend EA's party last night. His cold has got worse.
Embarked for India: off Portsmouth
Ocupations on board ship, Sanskrit language and Hindu beliefs
Death of Georgina Allix Mayor, dislike of George Herbert
Encouragement during tripos, football more humane than hunting: Acton
Poor unable to work in the fields due to frost, Robert Mayor organising a collection, death of man collecting coal, Margaret Lowe sent to boarding school, Robert B Mayor at school, poor in distress at Burslem
This sub-series contains Sir Anthony's professional and formal correspondence from his career as a researcher and academic.
New College, Oxford - Welcomes him as a new Fellow of New College following his election to the Savilian Chair of Geometry.
(Place of writing not indicated.)—Has been working with Lockyer on molecules and talking metaphysics with Huxley. Refers to his (own) talk on ‘the right and wrong of admitting the results of the scientific method in certain ground which it has already occupied’.
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Transcript
Dear Fred—Very sorry I can’t come to be wound up on Wednesday but we are going to the play. I am so tired, having spent the day at work with Lockyer at a paper on molecules, and the evening in talking metaphysics with Huxley. I think we have got out satisfactorily that the force between 2 molecules cannot be entirely in the line joining their centres as everybody has hitherto supposed, and this suits admirably my guess that they are small magnets.
As to my sermon, {1} I suppose it may be called so because the tag {2} dealt with the right and wrong of admitting the results of the scientific method in certain ground which it has already occupied. Now this point, that it is right to use the scientific method even on this ground, and that it is wrong to resist the evidence because the results are unpleasing, is to me a point of infinitely more importance to get people to feel, than without that to make them gently believe any amount of unorthodox doctrine. A question of right and wrong knows neither time, place, nor expediency. I think we have made a mistake in our laissez faire. It is not an intellectual revolution that has to be accomplished. The opinion of cultivated people goes of itself at an enormous rate; but the control of the feelings of the masses is falling more and more into the hands of the medicine-man, and he is awake to his true vocation and preaches social sedition. I am afraid for my civilization if we do not make an effort to discredit him, and to get people to recognize what they have hitherto acted on, that the right is an affair of plain open dealing and not of ghosts and conjuring tricks. They can be talked out of that here and now as they have been before in other places; and the clergy of all denominations are doing their worst with no small success.
Thine ever
Willi.
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{1} Possibly 'Right and Wrong’ or ‘The Ethics of Belief’.
A duplicated set of playscripts for the two plays with a note from Jay Adler of the Roundabout Theatre Company to Peter Shaffer, 25 Sept. 1993 bound in at front.
Contains both original newsprint cuttings and a typescript copy of an article.
Contains both original newsprint cuttings and photomechanical copies.
Thanks for dinner.
Oscar Lewenstein Ltd., 10 Dover Street, London, W.1. - Congratulates him on ['Five Finger Exercise']; admires the success with which he presented his characters, doesn't think anyone has done this as well post-war; assumes Tennants will be doing the plays in the future, but ''wanted to express the real admiration of this other Management'.
Typescript revised in Shaffer's hand with one MS page in Shaffer's hand, with scenes from a play about a woman visiting a probation office to meet a man who had attacked her on a London bus.