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Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire.—Hopes he will come to Alderley for Christmas or New Year. Is going to Switzerland with Oliver afterwards. Has had to cope with their guests alone as her mother has been away looking after Blanche and Sylvia.

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Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire
22nd Dec 1913

Thank you for your letter. I didnt expect you to answer mine {1}, tho’ I’m very glad you have, and also glad that you should think that you will come here. Mikky told me you were thinking of spending Xmas in London which seemed to be a dismal plan, so if you havent already arranged something else you’ll come here, or after, its as you like but, for new Year’s day. Or, what we’d like best for both. I’m tired of having people for 3 days, (tho’ I’d rather have them for that than not at all) they get so much nicer, and so does one after 4 or 5 days.

You must come before the 2nd (because that’s the day Oliver and I go to Switzerland) and when you do I’ll try, and I hope succeed in exchanging a little of my “goodness of soul” (which you allow me) for some intelligence and understanding. But anyway I think I do quite understand.

I’m glad Margot is nice about me. We’ve just had a large party here which I’ve had to cope with single handed as mother was away looking after Blanche, whose appendix has been removed and Sylvia whose 3rd daughter {2} has just come! They are all better now. Longing to see you.

V.

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{1} These two letters do not appear to have survived.

{2} Sylvia’s third daughter, Elizabeth, was born on the 18th and died on the 31st.

Correspondence re RAB's attendance at meetings, report of meeting on Cyprus and East Africa

Includes ‘Fluid mechanics in Cambridge since 1945’, ‘Geoffrey Ingram Taylor’, ‘The dynamics of hydrosol and aerosol particles’, ‘Forty years with fluid mechanics’, ‘A personal history of post-war turbulence’, ‘A participant’s view of post-war fluid mechanics’, ‘Thirty years with fluid mechanics’ and ‘The scientific heritage of G I Taylor’

The Master’s Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge.—Praises Greg’s Editorial Problem in Shakespeare and refers to his friendship with McKerrow.

[Sent from Clifton]:- Announces that he has just arrived in Bristol, having left the Pauls the previous day. Reports that Mrs Paul asked after his mother. States that he enjoyed his visit there and in London. Remarks that Paul has got very nice children. Reports that Mrs Symonds has just had a little girl [Madge], but that he has been assured that he is not in the way. Refers to his mother's last letter in which she had discussed views on religious subjects. Believes that 'English religious society is going through a great crisis...and it will probably become impossible soon to conceal from any body the extent to which rationalistic views are held, and the extent of their deviation from traditional opinion.' Refers to the fact that the Ritualists 'are determined to burn altar lights after all.' Would like the Church 'to include the ritualists'. Reports that Noel has brought out a volume of poems, which he undertakes to send to her. Asks her to tell Arthur that he has 'nearly evolved both the major and the minor premiss [sic] of [their] practical syllogism', and that 13 February is the 'Ad Eundem day', and that he is to write to Reynolds.

Edinburgh - A letter of introduction for James Clerk Maxwell who is about to migrate from Peterhouse to Trinity College [see JDF to WW, 30 Sept. 1850].

'It is as you say quite a scandal that no ascent has been made for scientific purposes since that of Gay Lussac. Though I hope when you see my paper on Refraction you will admit that this problem is nearly put at rest, for I make observations of steam, vapour of Alcohol and confirm my law of the connexion between pressure and temperature, which is quite different from what has been supposed'. JWL has had a long discussion with the aeronaut Mr Green: 'It would not do to set about the thing with less than £1,500 [to make a balloon to investigate the atmosphere?]. JWL is annoyed at John Herschel for leaving out all notice of his work on lunar theory in his address to the Astronomical Society.

WW entirely agrees with JCH's reply to Milner on the subject of the application for a commission to inquire into the University: 'such an interference might do much harm but would not be likely to produce any good. As to Lyell [Charles Lyell], who is I believe one of the main movers in the business, I look upon him as the most bigoted of men in what relates to the Universities. You may judge of this from knowing that he holds the Universities to be entirely wrong in their arrangements, because the same persons lecture both in classics and in mathematics. This he has published in his Travels in America (by way of an appropriate channel) as the great evil of Cambridge and Oxford: and though I tried to set him right in my last book about our studies, he will not believe that the fad is otherwise'. WW has seen the first issue of 'Politics for the People' but does not yet 'catch the object or hopes of the conductors'.

Thompson's fellowship, Donne has turnpike bonds which he is prepared to sell to Thompson, has hardly recovered from seeing Charles Kean's Macbeth, has begun his printer's copy of his Tacitus, "Bibliotheca" promised to adopt a new approach to classical texts

The Athenaeum Club - WW met Charles Babbage on the road to Cambridge: 'He is resolved to give his lectures sixth week, in as much as they are finished and just about to be published in the Encyc. Met. [Encyclopaedia Metropoliatana]. They will contain I conceive the views which you want from him of the economical laws of the division of labour &c. He will not make any great approximation to a conformity with established rules by thus delivering his lectures in what is practically vacation and without any notice.

RJ has just got a letter from John Herschel 'begging me to come to him at once and I am hurtling to change all arrangements and to be off in 1/2 an hour. I guess it is about South [James South] whom he allows to agitate him and I hope to calm him'. RJ gives some type errors he has spotted in the work WW has sent him ['The Elements of Morality, Including Polity'?] . RJ agrees 'with almost all your poor law practical views - You know I do not agree with you in thinking the state a moral agent unless very careful distinctions are drawn between our sense of moral obligations as members of a state and as individuals and it would be useless to embark in that controversy'. RJ can 'see nothing to find fault with except perhaps that you speak too confidently about the feudal element derived from the manners of the tribes - much of the feudal coloring has been thrown back I suspect by later writers'.

Headed notepaper for 29 Portman Square, W. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Includes correspondence re changes proposed by Bohr to paper by Frisch and Lise Meitner

A letter from Mrs. Bohr is also included here.

8 pp. typescript and ms.

Concerning diamonds lent to Thomson for electron diffraction experiments. Includes correspondence with R. Beeching.

The Strathcona Club was a residential Hall and Club built in 1933 to provide accommodation and a social centre for research workers at the Rowett Research Institute. It was named after Lord Strathcona, the principal benefactor.