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Includes letters of congratulation on the birth of Lady Thomson's granddaughter, Lilian Clare Thomson.

Beginning 'The object of the meeting which we are inaugurating...'. Original manuscript by Thomson, inscription on back by Rayleigh?

Includes correspondence between Thomson and A. N. Chamberlain re Thomson's resignation as a member of the University Grants Committee, 27 October 1923.

2 pp. typescript note of German and Italian mathematicians, listed according to whether they left or remained in their posts before and during World War II, and their political bias. n.d.

The first category, 'German refugee mathematicians', including G. Szegö and H. Heilbronn, gives names, subject speciality, former posts and present whereabouts. Davenport states that all were anti-Nazis.

The second category, 'Mathematicians who stayed in Germany', gives name, pre-war post and extent to which individual was involved in Nazi regime. The third category is 'Collaborators'.

The fourth category, 'Italian mathematicians', from information given by B. Segre (Manchester), gives a list of mathematicians 'dismissed by the Fascists in 1938' and another of anti-fascist mathematicians.

Letters from Robert W Ditchburn and George A. Weekes are in 66; those from Maud Venables Vernon and Roland Venables Vernon are in 67.

The first volume is dated by King on the first page after the front free endpaper 'Trin. Coll. Feb. 11. 1871', although the first edition of this work in fact appeared in 1864. The next page is dated 23 Nov. 1887, the year in which the second edition appeared. A mock-up of the title and facing page of the second edition follows, with an illustration, seal impression and Latin quotation [from Lucretius] follow, then two versions of the preface to the new edition, one of 37 ff. and the next of 26 ff. [unnumbered], then the contents pages of the new edition, 6 ff. The following manuscript of the first edition is written predominantly on blue paper: 46 ff. introduction and 2 ff. with a contents page and epigraphs, then the main text (foliated 1-407 in red throughout, though there are several other numbering schemes at various points).

The second volume has a contents page and epigraphs, 2 ff., then two sections, each foliated through in red, of 260 and 300 ff. The third volume has two sections, each foliated through in red, of 219 and 208 ff, blank, then 20ff foliated in pencil headed 'Woodcuts in the Text', and another section of 97 ff. headed 'Descriptions of the Plates'.

For a share of erecting a stage at the Hoop Hotel for private performance [see also HOUG/AA/3/13]; the bill delivered a second time; repairing trio of tables and two [?] black chairs. Against this is set the price of goods sold at auction, leaving a total of 8 shillings and ninepence to be paid.

'To 12th share of materials & Erecting stage &c including Lamps at the Hoop Hotel for private performance. NB - The materials used for the above are the property of the Gentlemen engaged therein'.

Includes address books, visiting cards, invitations, menus etc.

Most invitations sent to Richard Monckton Milnes alone, but some to both him and his wife; there are also some addressed to him after his elevation to the peerage in 1863. Invitations to occasions such as dinners, at homes, breakfasts and garden parties. Includes a small number of tickets for admittance.

Includes note on back of 1960 Trinity Hall register of addresses. Some sets of calculations have later annotations by Adams.