A volume edited by Signe Toksvig devoted to the work of Stella Coombe-Tennant as a medium, including a typescript of the introduction with corrigenda, notes and synopses of the cross-correspondence included, correspondence with Henry and Alexander Coombe-Tennant, Signe Toksvig, Mollie Goldney and Routledge and Kegan Paul.
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, subject files, writings, other Whewell papers, family papers, and later papers of others. The family papers include those originally gathered by Whewell's first wife Cordelia (née Marshall) and his second wife Lady Affleck (née Ellis). The papers of Lady Affleck's brother and Whewell's friend Robert Leslie Ellis now form a subset of this collection. The collection is further described in the System of arrangement field below, and materials received by gift and by purchase are described in the Related units of description field below.
Zonder titel'Sarony & Co. Scarborough' printed on mount below image. 'F. W. H. Myers' written in Eveleen Myers' hand below this.
'Sarony & Co. Registered. Copyright' printed on mount below image. 'Sarony & Co., Sarony Square, Scarborough' printed on back of mount.
'Dickinson Bros Photos. 107 Kings Road, Brighton, 14 New Bond St London' printed on mount below image.
'Dickinson Bros Photos. 107 Kings Road, Brighton, 14 New Bond St London' printed on mount below image. 'F. W. H. Myers' written in Eveleen Myers' hand below this. 'Sent to Eveleen with poem 1880?' written in pencil on back.
Letters, drafts, and copy-letters, largely relating to Huia Onslow's role as Secretary of the Soldiers and Sailor's Families Association, London North West District, particularly the numerous donations to the Anaesthetics Emergency Fund from New Zealand. Correspondents include: Elizabeth A. Sharp, the other Secretary of the Fund: G. F. Copus of the New Zealand High Commission: William Edward Collins, doctor, on board the New Zealand Hospital Ship 'Maheno' (one letter encloses a printed diet table for a hospital ship or carrier); Duncan Flockhart & Co., Manufacturing Chemists.
'Humphreys, Artist & Photographer, Royal Old Wells, Cheltenham' printed on back of mount.
Labelled 'F. W. H. Myers' by hand on mount under the image. 'Humphreys, Artist & Photographer, Royal Old Wells, Cheltenham' printed on back of mount.
Montreux Palace Hotel, Montreux, Switzerland. Addressed to 'R. G. C. McVittic [sic], Esq., Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge, Angleterre'. - 'Your kind note has been forwarded to me with some delay. I am enclosing an unpublished two-mover for the Trinity Review'.
Headed 'Vladimir Nabokov (USA)'. With pencil diagram showing set up of chess board. White to mate in two moves.
Initialled 'V. N'.
Montreux-Palace Hotel, Montreux, Switzerland. Addressed to 'Richard McVittie, Esq., Trinity College, Cambridge, England'. - 'I have not yet received your magazine with the chess problem I gave you. Did it come out? Did you send me a copy? Might it have got lost in a snowstorm?'.
'Dover Street Studios, 48 Dover St, Mayfair, London, W.'. Labelled by hand 'H. H. Myers. Lieutenant on the Dido. 1915'.
Label on back of frame in Eveleen Myers' hand: 'F. W. H. Myers. 1859, aged 16. My Husband. Evie Myers'.
Watercolour sketch of duck by Harold Myers, labelled '...[first part missing] from HAL'.
Taken by Eveleen Myers.
'1875' written below image. Numbered '223' on verso.
Numbered '223' on verso.
'Projected' written below the image.
'L. Magny. 11 Boulevard des Italiens' printed on mount below image. Eveleen Myers has written below the image, on both the photograph and mount: 'Taken for me in Paris before our marriage. 37 age'.
'L. Magny. 11 Boulevard des Italiens' printed on mount below image. Eveleen Myers has written below the image ''F. W. H. Myers. Paris - 1880 after my engagement to him'.
'E. H. Cox. 6, Park Crescent, Torquay' printed on mount below image.
'E. H. Cox. 6, Park Crescent, Torquay' printed on mount below image. Eveleen Myers has written below 'F. W. H. Myers. Before I knew him'.
'Maull & Fox. London' printed on mount below image.
Contains letters from various figures associated with the society regarding Onslow's work for them: predominantly writing précis of articles in scientific journals such as Nature deemed relevant [see ONSL/3/11], but also providing translations and lists of books which should be reviewed, and writing articles for the Society's journal. Some typed copies of letters from Onslow to the Society also present.
Letters from: Sybil Gotto, Hon. Secretary; A. M. Carr Saunders, who has 'taken over the bibliography scheme'; R. A. Fisher; Nora Alexander, Assistant Secretary; Leonard Darwin, chairman; Constance M. Brown, Secretary; Miss M. E. Robinson, Literary Assistant'.
Onslow gives a brief sketch of his life, his accident, and his intention to 'devote [his] life to scientific research work'. Outlines the problems he has in being confined to his rooms and unable to use apparatus in laboratories, and his financial difficulties. Gives an indication of the research he has been engaged in so far and possible lines he wishes to prefer. Suggests that his former tutor W. C. D. Whetham and Professor F. G. Hopkins would give references for him.
Onslow gives a brief sketch of his life, his accident, and his intention to 'devote [his] life to scientific research work'. Outlines the problems he has in being confined to his rooms and unable to use apparatus in laboratories, and his financial difficulties. Gives an indication of the research he has been engaged in so far and possible lines he wishes to prefer. Suggests that his former tutor W. C. D. Whetham and Professor F. G. Hopkins would give references for him.
62-67 Norfolk House, Norfolk Street Strand, London — MacElwee asks for particulars of Onslow's research.