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Apologises for giving a bad impression of the Broughtons, Rhoda Broughton a great admirer of Tennyson, reading matter of Broughton girls, parish work: [The Priory, Kenilworth]

The archive contains diaries 1850-1896, school and university notebooks, later notebooks on religious matters, official papers 1853-1873, correspondence, copy correspondence [1899] and various other miscellaneous items.

Uncorrected partial typescript

Corrected typescript.

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

Fragment,visit to Swinderby, talked with Mr Clarke about "the lawsuit", visit to Maria [ ]'s school where Joseph was forced to examine the children

Table of contents (3ff.), also in Russell's hand, at front of work.

41 Palace Court, (London).—Explains how his ideas on entropy differ from those of other physicists.

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41 Palace Court
15/2/3

Dear Mr. Henderson,—Many thanks for proof {1}. My only fear in suggesting any alterations is that I may be unfair to Lodge or Perry.

The difference between Lodge & me is very much more fundamental than your article says. Lodge seems to think increase of total entropy is never caused except by transfer of heat between bodies of different temperature. Perry, as far as I can gather his views from his letters thinks the same, & they both think that when gas is expanded into a vacuum the increase of entropy is due to subsequent equalisation of temperature. I have had a good deal of correspondence with Lodge privately. I find there is also ambiguity about what Η & Θ refer to. I have put my notions in last weeks Electrician. Bryan in a letter says he doesn’t know what the books mean by Η & Θ, & doesn’t believe the authors know either.

I think thermodynamics wants complete overhauling. The smaller men merely copy the au-thorities blindly, & the big people never explain what they mean. Bryan is about as good a “thermodynamician” as there is, & if he privately admits that his ideas are not clear there is something wrong. I think there is far too much ‘blind mathematics’ in our days.

I have not criticised books on thermodynamics, only on steam engines & Φ {2} diagrams & math. Physics. But we have no decent books on thermodynamics. Preston {3} I have only seen, but I don’t think he is at all clear. Though he may discuss irreversible processes I think his only idea of increase of entropy was by transfer of heat. A pupil of his who is v. good at T. Dynamics tells me Preston never really understood entropy; & I have a 2nd hand book which belonged to Preston with pencil notes, showing the same thing!

Ofcourse† all this is not for publication.

Yours faithfully
J Swinburne

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{1} Not identified.

{2} ‘& Φ’ is the apparent reading, but the meaning is unclear.

{3} The Theory of Heat, by Thomas Preston (1894).

† Sic.

Visit of Mr Leslie, hunt for lilies in Honiley Wood, Mr Leslie's compositions, his Emmanuel to be performed in Cambridge: The Priory

Thinks Grote's reply to Shilleto is excellent, Ellis uncomfortable due to a change in the prescribed opium, subscribes 2 guineas for Grote's school

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 (B/56)

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), Lilian Adam Smith (B/96), Denys Arthur Winstanley (B/94), Alexander Wood (B/94), 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 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).

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), Katharine, Lady Parsons (B/66), Marga Planck (B/67), A.O. Rankine (B/73), John, 1st Viscount Sankey (B/72), Lady Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (B/71), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/66, B/69), Lucy Babington Smith (B/69), Susan Babington Smith (B/69), John Bulloch Souter (B/73), Angela Thirkell (B/72), Mari M. Thompson (B/73), Sir Henry Francis Wilson (B/68).

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Trinity College, Cambridge
28 July 1952.

With the Senior Bursar’s compliments and thanks

Guns—formerly at Chilton Lodge, Wiltshire.

Sir William Pearce died in 1907. His only connection with Trinity was that he rowed in the College boat. {1} He left, subject to his wife’s life interest, his residential estate, Chilton Lodge, Wiltshire, to Trinity College. His wife, a much younger person, died within a year, childless. The College decided to sell the estate which was valued at £80,000 approximately.

The guns stood on the lawn in front of Chilton Lodge. They were brought to Cambridge, put out of action, and placed in the Fellows Garden. In November, 1909 it was decided to remove them to the Bowling Green.

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1 single sheet. The text in italics is printed; the rest is typed. The Senior Bursar at this date was Tressilian Nicholas.

{1} This is curiously dismissive. Pearce spent a full three years at the College, graduating BA and LLB.

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).

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), John H. G. Randolph (B/63), Lady Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (B/62, B/63 and B/65), Sir Annesley Ashworth Somerville (B/65), Alexandra, Lady Studd (B/64), Thomas Rolls Warrington, 1st Baron Warrington of Clyffe (B/64), George Arthur Weekes (B/64).

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), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (C/16), Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson (C/15), John, 1st Viscount Sankey (C/13 and C/14), Sir William Napier Shaw (C/13), Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (C/16), George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon (C/15).

Shelford.—Discusses arrangements for a forthcoming dinner of the Royal Society.

(Dated Monday.)

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Shelford. Monday. Ev.

My dear President,

Telegram to hand—This is very annoying; it was such a real good toast list.

I think now it will be best to ask Lord Salisbury to propose the toast instead of replying to it—& to “couple” your “name” with it. Your response as being that of an official of the Society can be quite brief & without sitting down you can go on to propose the Medalists†—this will save us a speech and we have a quite long enough list {1}

But Harcourt’s failing puts us in another corner—With the Lord Chancellor & Harcourt both speaking the way was clear to ask Ld Ashbourne—this from your telegram you have done. But it will look onesided to have Salisbury & Ashbourne as against Chancellor.

If he falls out we certainly ought to ask Shaw Fevre {2}—in fact we ought even if he accepts, & Rhodes fails—perhaps even if Rhodes does not fail. Let me know what you think.

I go up to Burlington House on Wednesday to finally arrange table—shall be there from mid-day onwards—Please write to me there your opinion of the above & if you have to wire on Wednes. wire me there—Perhaps you will authorize me to write in your name if necessary. On Wednesday we shall know more definitely who is coming, & what answers you have had—& we must then do our best & I will write to whom we may decide on, if there is need. If may be desirable for me to wire you on Wednes. aft, & get an immediate reply—perhaps you will arrange for this

Ever yours
M. Foster

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Letter-head of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W. Kelvin was President of the Society from 1890 to 1895, and Foster was Secretary from 1881 to 1903. The letter concerns arrangements for the Society’s annual anniversary dinner on Friday, 30 Nov. 1894, at which the Lord Chancellor (Lord Herschell), the Marquess of Salisbury, and Lord Ashbourne, all mentioned in the letter, were present. See The Times, 1 Dec. 1894, p. 10.

{1} Foster’s suggestions were adopted. See the Times article cited above.

{2} G. J. Shaw-Lefevre, who had attended the dinner in 1892. See The Times, 1 Dec. 1892, p. 6.

† Sic.

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; Edith Gittings Reid, B/51; George Macaulay Trevelyan, B/50; Janet Trevelyan, B/50.