Includes minutes of the Third Meeting of the Panel of Advisors for Broadcast National Lectures, which were held at Savoy Hill, London, 12 June 1930.
Includes a letter from D. C. Henry of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society inviting Thomson to deliver the Dalton Lecture, 28 May 1930.
Soft-backed diary, inscribed on front cover 'EPS'. Contains correspondence at front of diary including a letter from the British Association for the Advancement of Science inviting Thomson to accept the office of Vice-President of Section A, 5 December 1896. Diary and memo pad at the back of diary used for notes.
Includes 3pp manuscript of letter of support for appointing S. Ramanujan to a Research Fellowship, by J.E. Littlewood (c 1913?).
Includes a letter from A.N. Shaw of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, re his memorial lecture on Rutherford. A reprint of the lecture titled 'Rutherford at McGill' is attached.
Includes letter, 1 Mar. 1932, from Virginia Woolf to Thomson, saying she is honoured to be offered the opportunity to give the Clark Lectures for the year 1932/1933 but that she feels she must decline 'as an amateur without training in scholarship and without experience of lecturing'. It is a 'peculiar gratification... to have been offered a lectureship once held by [her] father'.
Includes correspondence from Leys School, Cambridge, re Thomson's visit to open their new Science Laboratories, October, November 1927
Includes brief correspondence re Thomson's Fison Memorial Lecture
Correspondence: analysis of samples of rumen contents. Shaw was based at the Evans Biological Institute, Runcorn, Cheshire.
"The statue of Lord Byron placed in the Library Oct 17th 1845
Master Wm Whwell DD
Senior Bursar Rev J Merton MA
Junior Bursar A Thacker Esq MA
Under Librarian Edward Cranwell"
Includes correspondence re the death of W.W. Rouse-Ball, a Tutor at Trinity College, April 1925.
(Headed ‘No. 10107.’)
C/54 includes correspondence from Newnham College Cambridge inviting Thomson to deliver the Sidgwick Memorial Lecture.