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Bristol. - Seeking information for her work on reformatory schools; sources already consulted; her own work locally; Mr Fletcher's report to the Education Council; inability of ragged schools to provide the moral teaching necessary for true reformation without proper state support; recommends provision of schools 'on the Aberdeen and Glasgow plan' and juvenile reformatories to keep children out of prisons.

'Broadstone of Honour' has been annotated in pencil at the foot.

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upon arriving at Cambridge Mr Digby finds that only the 1st volume of Kant's works had been sent to Will's Coffee House. He writes to request that Mr Bohte will forward the remaining three to him at Trin. Coll. Cambridge.

Jan. 13.
Trin. Coll.
Cambridge

Included are letters from: Sir W. L. and Lady Bragg (B/96), Lady Betty Balfour (B/95), E. A. Benians (B/95), Evelyn Bosacawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/94), Anne Chamberlain (B/97), Sir William Scott Farren (B/96), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/97), Sir David Randall Pye (B/95), P. B. Agate (B/97).

Included also at B/95 is a 4pp draft, in Lady Thomson's hand, of a speech on the history of Trinity College.

Included are letters from: Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour (B/91), Norman Hepburn Baynes (B/93), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/91), Dora Isolda Butler, Baroness Dunboyne (B/92), Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (B/90), John Traill Christie (B/90), Walter Durant Gibbs, 2nd Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (B/92), [Ester Elizabeth?] De Labillière (B/92), Paul F. D. De Labillière (B/90), Sir Joseph Larmor (B/89), Arthur Quiller-Couch (B/90), General (later Field Marshall) A .P. Wavell (B/93); Herbert du Parcq (B/90), Hans Leo Przibram (B/91).

Included are letters from Stanley Baldwin (C/13, C/16), Sir Richard Threlfall (C/13), Sir B.H. Liddell-Hart (C/14), Neville Chamberlain (C/14), Sir Anthony Eden (C/16), Edmund Charles Blunden (C/14), John Buchan (C/14), Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (C/14), Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (C/15), Thomas Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester (C/17), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (C/13), Karl Przibram (C/15) and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (C/16).

Included are letters from Sir B. H. Liddell Hart (B/74), A. E. Housman (B/76, B/81), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (B/77), 3rd Earl of Leicester (B/81), Ernest de Selincourt (B/81), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/79), John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (B/77), Hilda Margaret Pickard-Cambridge (B/81), Lionel E. L. Charlton (B/81), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), George Stuart Gordon (B/78), Winifred E. L. Hawke (B/80), George Cecil Jaffé (B/77), Kenneth Escott Kirk (B/79), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Sarah Hamilton Lusk (B/75), Theodore Lyman (B/70), Francis John Lys (B/74), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/76, B/78, B/80), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (B/78), Stephen Charles Neill (B/76); Sir Harold F. P. Percival (B/79), Ernest Murray Pollock, Baron (later Viscount) Hanworth (B/74, B.79)..

Included are letters from Stanley Baldwin (B/67), Lady Betty Balfour (B/70), Harley Granville Barker (B/69), Sir J. M. Barrie (B/68), Edmund Charles Blunden (B/71), Evelyn Boscawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/71), Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (B/67), Max Planck (B/67, B/70), Sir J. H. Jeans (B/71), Sir W. H. Bragg, (B/73), Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood (B/67), Prince Chula of Siam (B/72), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/71, B/73), Sir G. H. Duckworth (B/68), Frederich Homes Dudden (B/66), Lilly Frazer (B/72), Violet Grimston, Countess of Verulam (B/73), Graeme Haldane (B/72), Roy Harrod (B/72), A. E. Housman (B/73), David A. E. Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford (B/70), Sir Henry McCardie (B/63), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/68, B/70), Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (B/70), and A.O. Rankine (B/73), Katharine, Lady Parsons (B/66), Marga Planck (B/67).

Included are letters by F. A. Lindemann (B/58), A.J. Balfour (B/58, B/59), A.E. Housman (B/58, B/59), Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (B/58, B/61), Stanley Baldwin (B/59, B/60), Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers of Northiam (B/59), Charles John Darling, 1st Baron Darling (B/59), Henry Edward Duke, 1st Baron Merivale (B/60), Hermann Glauert (B/57), Helen Frances Hort, Lady Hort (B/61), Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram (B/58), Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (B/60, B/61), Princess Marie Louise (B/57), Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin (B/59); Francis William Pember (B/61).

Included are letters from and R. B. Haldane (C/7, C/10), Sir T. E. Thorpe (C/7), A. J. Balfour (C/8, C/10), Stanley Baldwin (C/8), Sir Henry Newbolt, (C/8) S.A. Arrhenius (C/9), Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham (C/11), Louis de Broglie (C/11), George, 1st Viscount Cave (C/10), Sir Stephen Gaselee (C/12), Gustav VI Adolf, King of Sweden (C/12), Elizabeth Haldane (C/11), Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (C/10), Charles James Longman (C/9), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (C11), Ernest Bowman Ludlam (C/9), Hugh Macnaghten (C/9), Albert Mansbridge (C/8), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (C/8, C/12); Alfred Chilton Pearson (C/9).

Including letters from Henry Luke Paget, (B/44); Elma Katie Paget, (B/44); George Edmund Paget, (B/42); Charles E. Paget (B/42); Mary Maud Paget (B/44); A. J. Meyrick Paget (B/42 and 44); Owen Frank Paget (B/42-43); Stella Paget (B/43).

Included are letters from: Lady Betty Balfour (B/64) Louis de Broglie (B/63), Dorothea, Lady Charnwood (B/62), Lawrence Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay (B/63), George Stuart Gordon (B/64), Graeme Haldane (B/65), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (B/64), Gareth R. V. Jones (B/64), Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (B/62), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (B/65), Victor A. G. R. Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (B/63), Desmond MacCarthy (B/64), Paul E. Paget (B/62).

Included at B/50 are letters of condolence on the death of Lady Thomson's daughter-in-law, Kathleen. Also letters from Ethel P. Paget, B/49, B/52; Frida Paget, B/49; Harold E. G. Paget, B/50; Mary M. Paget, B/49 and B/52; Meyrick Y. Paget, B/52; Owen F. Paget, B/51; Paul E. Paget, B/49.

Included at B/47 is a letter to Thomson from Henry L. Paget, Bishop of Chester. Also included are letters from Arthur R. Paget (B/45); Christabel M. Paget (B/45-B/47); A. J. Meyrick Paget (B/45); Meyrick Y. Paget (B/48); Owen F. Paget (B/47-B/48); Paul E. Paget (B/45).

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Typescript with a label on the front page for Christopher Mann Ltd, 140 Park Lane, London.

The papers consist of correspondence, school notebooks, research notes and drafts, diaries, photographs, and publications documenting most aspects of Davenport's life and work. His contributions to his subject as student, teacher, writer and researcher, are well documented and the collection as a whole is of pedagogical interest. Less fully represented are his extensive travels for visits and conferences (which can sometimes only be deduced from a jotted heading on a lecture script) and his work for the London Mathematical Society.

The 60 boxes of material are organised into seven series: Biographical and personal papers, School and university notebooks and lecture notes, Lectures and addresses, Publications, Research notes and drafts, Faculty of Mathematics, Cambridge and Correspondence.

Series A, Biographical and personal papers, includes Davenport's unpublished reminiscences and reflections on his life's work, written shortly before his death with the assistance of his wife and his colleague D. J. Lewis (A.8-10). Other documentation on his career includes, unusually, his examination scripts and marks awarded at Manchester University in 1927 preserved by his principal tutor, L. J. Mordell (A.30-31).

Series B, School and university notebooks and lecture notes, is a record of mathematical teaching at Manchester 1924-1927 (B.23-54) and Cambridge 1927-1932 (B.55-92), by means of Davenport's notes, carefully taken and preserved, of lecture courses, class work and exercises.

Series C, Lectures and addresses, is a substantial section representing Davenport's own contribution to the teaching of mathematics from the 1930s as a Research Fellow in Cambridge through his various university appointments and lectures abroad, including the lectures at Michigan, later published in book form (C.115-124). Several of these contain sets of problems and solutions, and some examination material. On a less technical note is the address given in 1947 at Accrington Grammar School, Davenport's old school (C.131). A new generation in the filiation of mathematics is represented by the notes on Davenport's lectures at London in 1946 made by C. A. Rogers, his research student, collaborator and eventual successor as Astor Professor (C.167).

Series D, Publications, includes drafts, sometimes accompanied by correspondence with collaborators (see especially D.110-120) or publishers, for Davenport's many papers. These have been linked wherever possible to the numbered list in the Bibliography appended to the Royal Society Memoir by C. A. Rogers and others (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 17, 1971). In addition, there is considerable material relating to work not listed in the official bibliography: this includes Davenport's books, The higher arithmetic (D.89-92) and Multiplicative number theory (D.170-182), book reviews (D.208), unpublished work (D.201-203) and a posthumous publication (D.207).

Series E, Research notes and drafts, contains a variety of material: paginated narrative sequences perhaps intended for lectures or papers, notes and calculations often on problems arising from work by others, and miscellaneous shorter unidentified notes. There is in consequence some potential overlap with other series, notably C and D. Of interest is the collaborative work with Helmut Hasse arising from Davenport's period in Marburg (E.1-15). Davenport's notes of lectures and talks by others (E.103-126) include mathematicians of an older generation (K. Mahler, L. J. Mordell, C. L. Siegel), friends and contemporaries (P. Erdös, H. A. Heilbronn), and pupils and successors (B. J. Birch, J. W. S. Cassels, C. A. Rogers, K. F. Roth). Another link in the pedagogic chain is J. E. Littlewood's extended list of 'Research Problems' and Davenport's 'Comments' (E.131)

Series F, Faculty of Mathematics, Cambridge, is small but includes a little material on research, examinations and the newly-created Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

In Series G, Correspondence, Davenport's links as student, teacher and collaborator with several generations can be traced. Early correspondence with E. A. Milne (G.206) and L. J. Mordell (G.208) feature their recognition and fostering of Davenport's talent, and that with E. Bombieri (G.28-39), D. J. Lewis (G.175-184) and C. A. Rogers (G.268-278), among many others, indicate his continuing contributions. Special mention must be made of Davenport's close connection with German mathematicians, several of whom he met during his early visits to Marburg and elsewhere and whom he helped and encouraged when they were forced to emigrate: see his correspondence with H. A. Heilbronn (G.123-142), H. Kober (G.165), K. Mahler (G.194-201), and R. Rado (G.257). There is also correspondence with H. Hasse (G.116-122), who remained in Germany. Davenport's command of the language is evident both in the correspondence and in the drafts for lectures and papers elsewhere in the collection.

Eliza has been too ill to write a reply to Elsie's letter. Update on the state of her health and description of the doctor's orders to stay in bed and take 'milk and invalid slops'. She felt well enough to give an address for 80 mothers. Percy, Charlotte, and Edith Shelley are coming to visit for a dinner event. She enclosed the book making a few additions at the end for Alice's benefit [Elsie's daughter]. Sends her love to Elsie, Alice and Rowland [Elsie's husband]. Signs name as 'Aunt Lizzie'.

Material assembled by I. M. James during the preparation of his Royal Society memoir of Adams, with letters from Tony Bahri (includes photograph of Adams on top of a sculpture in 1983), Geoffrey Best, Peter Bousfield, and A. B. Clegg.

On embossed paper for the Savile Club, 15 Savile Row, W. - Sends article from The Nineteenth Century on the child criminal [no longer present]; the writer is well-informed and seeks to re-establish a reformatory system that has been allowed to lapse; ignorant politicians are to blame; invites Houghton to contribute an article on the work at Redhill to Our Times; earnest support of the late Prince Consort did much to raise public interest.

W[est] R[iding] Prison, Wakefield. - Number of strokes not to exceed twelve when whipping juvenile offenders; thanks for Return. Extract from law pertaining to whipping of juvenile and other offenders appended; in different hand.

Extract from unidentified periodical; originally reported in the Gloucester Reporter.

Hanover Square, Leeds. - Invitation to preside at annual meeting of Leeds Ragged & Industrial School; proposed girls' school.

Red House Lodge. - Mr [Robert] Lowe's changes in the revised code [on education]; suggests amendments regarding certification of teachers for ragged schools; has informed Mr Lowe and Sir Stafford Northcote.

Red House Lodge. - Encloses papers [no longer present] outlining local objections to Hardwicke Resoliutions; has ben attacked by the Bristol Guardians on account of evidence given to the Poor Law Committee.

Darnall Hall, Sheffield. - Funding of juvenile reformatories; charity status is preferable to state support; sending pamphlets [not present].

Both relating to the Warwickshire and Birmingham Reformatory Institution; containing speech by Milnes.