File 163 - Correspondence with Mary, Lady O'Malley

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TAYL/A/163

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Correspondence with Mary, Lady O'Malley

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  • 1924-1974 (Creation)

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Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram (1886-1975), knight, physicist and engineer
(1886-1975)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Lady O'Malley published extensively under the name Ann Bridge. Her letters to Taylor are addressed My dear Skipper and signed Mary Anne.
The O'Malleys had been on the 1924 cruise in Frolic (see A.1) and Mrs. (later Lady) O'Malley remained a lifelong friend of Taylor. Sir Owen served at the British Legation, Peking, and letters of 1926 contain descriptions of life and travel in China.
Included also is a poem (1924) in praise of Taylor's Royal Society Yarrow Research Professorship; the last stanza runs:
There is also a letter, 1974, from Jane O'Malley about the death of her parents.

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