Photocopy of a story published in 1953.
Typescript with a label on the front page for Christopher Mann Ltd, 140 Park Lane, London.
Typescript draft with emendations in unidentified hands, of a Mr Verity mystery written with Anthony Shaffer.
Notes on Troutbeck case towards the front of the volume. [This case, in which Sir Frederick Pollock acted for the claimants, was heard in the 1830s, and so the book may have been begun then, and only later used for mathematical notes].
Dates given for Pollock's mathematical notes run from 17 Dec. 1857 to 1 Mar. 1858. They include proofs under the heading 'a remarkable property of the odd squares is that any two adjoining ones may be represented thus...', p. 202-
Also present are notes on French vocabulary (p 256), and verse (pp 404-411).
Sin títuloIn a letter from Peter to Johnson he explains that he wrote 'The Woman In the Wardrobe' under a pseudonym because he and Anthony [Shaffer] wanted to write two more together under that name; provides a riddle to guess the pseudonym they used. This is accompanied by fax transmission sheet. The reply from Johnson apologises for misattributing 'The Woman in the Wardrobe' to Anthony Shaffer, and for getting the type of work wrong: a detective novel and not a play, and notes that Shaffer has not revealed what happened at the end, prolonging his 'agony'; thanks him for kind remarks about his column.
Typescript draft with emendations in Shaffer's hand. Lacking the first few pages of Act I. The last page includes five lines of shorthand at the bottom.
A small group of typescript pages with emendations in Shaffer's hand.
With note signed by Shaffer on cover, "2nd Version, typed up & finished Jan 27th 1961." Typescript draft, with emendations in Shaffer's hand. The draft contains multiple versions of scenes, and does not appear to be a final draft.
Entries in index: 'on the connection of M W N & m n page 428'; 'on changing the sums of Square by altering the Root p 284'; '2nd Communication [to the Royal Society]', 298; 'Fermat's theorems. Paper for Royal Society p. 250'; 'on the gradation series, 338'; 'letter to Mr De Morgan proving that the two forms (a² + a + b² + c²)= (m² + m + n² + p² + p), 142'; 'Numbers - Forms of which make 4 sqr roots =1 etc tc, p 190'; 'Triangular nos p. 475'.
Other page headings not mentioned in the index include: 'on the division of odd nos into 4 square & other forms', p. 2; 'on Fermat's mysteries of numbers', p. 162. The title in full of the paper for the Royal Society which begins on p. 250 is 'On the first and second Theorems of Fermat relating to the polygonal numbers and on the forms not exceeding 4 into which odd numbers may be divided'.
Two large sheets dated 1867 and labelled 'Diagram no. 1' and 'Diagram no. 2'
Sin títuloDraft in Peter's hand of the last few lines of the play, slightly different from the version in the playscript 'Retreats' and the printed version in the 'Collected Works'. With notes by Peter on the verso.
Thanks him for the play, 'it has the touch of genius'.
Infanta Beatriz, Madrid - Congratulations on his success from the prompter and assistant.
Congratulates him on the Evening Standard award.
Thanks him for a wonderful evening in the theatre.
Is a stranger, but wants to thank him for having written something so worthwhile and which has given her courage.
Has seen the play twice, has found it wonderful once again.
Is terribly impressed by the play.
Thanks him for the party.
The religious adviser to Associated TeleVision proposes a discussion programme based on the play.
Lord Williams's Grammar School, Thame, Oxon. - Congratulates him on the play, queries Louise's response of "Why? Why? Why?" with its hint homosexuality given her age and middle class background.
Thanks him for the tickets.
Included are letters by:
Louis de Broglie, Ernest Rutherford, Sedley Taylor (B/53),
A.E Housman, J. E. B. Seely, F. Derwent Wood (B/54)
E. D. Adrian, C.G. Barkla, Dorothea, Lady Charnwood, Lilly Frazer, Kathleen, Lady Rayleigh (B/55).
C. A. Alington, H. L. Paget, H. F. Stewart, F. Theodore Woods, Eileen Younghusband (B/56),
Westwood, Oathall Road, Haywards Heath - Admires the play.
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), Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright (C/10).
Included are letters from Lady Betty Balfour (B/85), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/88), Anne Chamberlain (B/82), Walter de la Mare (B/83), Constance Elfrida de la Mare (B/83), Charles, 6th Baron Thurlow (B/84), Raymond Wilson Chambers (B/85), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay (B/84), A.E. Housman (B/86), Sir Cecil J. B. Hurst (B/84, B/85), Sir Louis Charles Jackson (B/82), Cosmo Gordon Lang (B/82), Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (B/84), John E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (B/87), Sir William Napier Shaw (B/85), Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (B/86), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/83), Owen Hugh Smith (B/87), Roland Venables Vernon (B/87), Lionel Robert Wilberforce (B/88), Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright (B/85, B/86).
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), Mary Georgina, Lady Rutherford (B/90), Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (B/89), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/89), Joan Pernel Strachey (B/91), Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright (B/90, B/91/B/92).
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), Constance Babington Smith (B/78), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/75, B/78), Sir George Adam Smith (B/79), Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor (B/79), John Grosvenor Barrington-Ward (B/75), John Macnaghten Whittaker (B/77), Alexander Wood (B/74), Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright (B/81).
Thanks him for his reply, has seen the play a second time, her husband is happy to hear Shaffer enjoyed his performance, makes arrangements to meet.