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8, Grosvenor Crescent, S.W. - The hard weather has 'carried off quite a group of [Sir George's] old London friends', leaving the same sort of gap as was left in his college circle by the deaths of Bowen, [Henry] Sidgwick and Edward Young. Goschen, Davey, Godfrey Lushington, and Allendale ([Wentworth] Beaumont) have all died within about a fortnight. Caroline and Booa [Mary Prestwich] much enjoyed their visit to the Shiffolds and meeting Paul. Was very lucky not to break his hip; is still lame. The Lords have 'a reform bill of their own House'; the "Times" seems not to think this is the business of the Commons, which is 'all very well if the same theory is adopted reciprocally' but they threw out the Plural Voting bill last year.

Lindsay Sap, Gallipoli. Units stay in the front line longer than in France as the shelling is less intense, life in the trenches monotonous but not intolerable, much sapping going on, little shooting with machine guns as it is important to conceal them.

Thanks him for his kindness on their visit to London; enjoyed 'Black Comedy'; had a wonderful evening at Caroline's [?].

Questionnaires. Questions of Policy notes prepared by Central Office for General Election campaign, drafts of some sent to RAB for comment

The Bungalow, Briar Hill, Purley, Surrey.—Suggests that a fragmentary plot printed in Greg’s edition of the Henslowe Papers may be a pre-Shakespearian form of All’s Well That Ends Well.

Sends Sidgwick 'a fuller version' of a paper sent to him on 8 March [not included: see 93/108], and asks him to give his opinion as to the soundness of the reasoning.

14 Woburn Pl., Russell Sq. - On a diagram expressing an equation which purports to square the circle.

WW cannot be so near without trying to see JCH: 'I should like to come and see you some day next week'.

40 Weymouth Street - report of a visit to Faversham

The third notebook of four into which G. N. Wilson copied chapters XII-XXI of Ramanujan's Notebook 2, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.105-107A. Envelope carries notes by B. M. Wilson.

Correspondence re Thomson's original electron diffraction camera which he lent to the Science Museum, along with some early photographs, for the Electron Jubilee Exhibition, 1948.

Held 26-29 June 1961. Synge spoke on `The use of molecular-sieve effects for separating large molecules'.

Correspondence re arrangements, 1960-1961; abstract; programme; manuscript notes.

Department of Philosophy, Yenching University, Peking, China - Sends Frazer the Chinese translation of 'The Golden Bough', and a pamphlet he has written popularising Frazer's theory; is about to publish his translation of Malinowski's 'Sex and Repression In Savage Society'.

The University, Glasgow, Department of Zoology - Is sorry to hear there has been trouble with the date of Frazer's lecture; thanks her for the Frazer lectures volume; his son has just taken his LL.B. degree and his Cambridge MA and has just found work, and his wife is about to have an operation.

Larchfield School, Helensburgh N.B. - Sends a subscription from 52 small boys; the school had gone down in numbers under his predecessor but they are now going up; has forwarded her letter to the Larchfield Club.