Knottingley Parsonage. - His attempts to secure Knottingley curacy; Rev. C. G. Smith now thought unlikely to resign.
Typescript of Suffolk Sea Phrases by Fitzgerald, ed. Ganz); typescript 'Foreword' [to Ganz's Gleanings from Edward FitzGerald], dated 31 Mar (1939 added by hand then crossed through and corrected to 1944 with list of dated quotations, and letter [?] headed 'An Edward Fitzgerald Scrap-Book', signed by Ganz (dated Bexhill March 3 1947).
Many of the following items have labels and notes by Ganz on the back: 88 sheets of photostats and other copies of Fitzgerald letters, dating 1857-1883; reproductions of portraits of Fitzgerald (10 items); reproductions of Fitzgerald family portraits (17 items); photographs (some originals) of Fitzgerald's friend Joseph Fletcher, "Posh (8 items); photographs of boats, several bearing name of George Crabbe (7 items); portraits and photographs (copies and originals) of associates of Fitzgerald, birthday card (19 items); photographs and postcards of buildings and places with Fitzgerald associations (25 items); MS copies of 8 letters by Fitzgerald by Edith Hawes Craven with accompanying letter to Ganz (1933).
Letters (4) by Fitzgerald; letter to Fitzgerald by Thomas Carlyle; letter from Joseph Fletcher to James Blyth.
Also xerox copies of letters relating to the copyright of Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, by Fitzgerald, Bernard Quaritch, and others, with accompanying letter sent to [C. R.] Dodwell by A[lfred] McKinley Terhune (1964).
Five letters from Buckingham Palace re arrangements for visit of Prince Albert [the future George VI] to Cambridge. Some letters addressed to Lady Thomson.
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.
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.
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'.
Lord Crewe offering the Aldine Thucydides, 1502 (now N.5.94 in the library collections).
Includes correspondence from E. Everett re his retirement as Thomson's personal assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory, 6 December 1930, 5 October 1931. Also includes an obituary of Everett from Nature written by Thomson, 18 November 1933.
Includes correspondence from T.E. Lawrence re the Lees Knowles Lectureship.
Includes a draft of a letter by Thomson to Ernest Rutherford dated 23 Mar. 1919 about his plans for the Cavendish Laboratory, written on the verso of a letter from a student, G. A. Newgass.
Includes two letters written to Henry Montagu Butler, master of Trinity just before Thomson, and another letter written by Butler in 1917.
Includes correspondence from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, re Thomson's Hodgkins Medal, February and September 1903.
Included are letters from: Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester; Charles John Darling, 1st Baron Darling; William Edmund Ironside, first Baron Ironside; George Mallory; Sir Arthur Schuster.
1-2: Letter from Hélène Nessi, 8 Aug. 1839 (in French), enclosing promissory note to her from A. Schaffgotsche re a loan (in Italian).
Involving Thomas Holme and Edward Valentine.
Miscellaneous bank and personal accounts, insurance etc,
Other ephemera and material from Gerald Symons, including tickets for evensong and the dedication of a memorial window to A. E. Housman at Westminster Abbey, Sept. 1996, and invitations to a Housman Society event following this; family trees; programme for Housman Society Weekend at Housman Hall, Bromsgrove, Oct. 2007; lists of Housman family memorabilia and works by A. E. Housman and Laurence Housman; menu for luncheon held by the Housman Memorial Trust on the occasion of the unveiling of the Housman statue at Bromsgrove in Mar. 1985; typed notes on the Housman Family Memorial, Smallcombe Cemetery, Bathwick, Bath; programme for concert to commemorate the opening of Housman Hall [Bromsgrove School], Mar. 2006; estate.agents' particulars of Housmans, Fockbury, to be sold at auction in Oct. 1978; notes on the Housman family, some evidently prepared as talks.