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Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire.—Invites him to come to Alderley with the Prime Minister in December. She quite enjoyed her stay at Hopeman. Is going to London on Monday. ‘Are you still cuckooed out of your nest?’

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Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire
Saturday 1st November 1913

I wonder whether it would amuse you to come here when the P.M. comes on December 5, Thursday, he speaks in Oldham Saturday. Violet and Cys and Bluey are going to be there but otherwise no one.

I’ve just got back from Hopeman, where it was quite fun, only Mikky and Bongie the Prime and I and afterwards Violet.

I go to London Monday for the week.

Are you still cuckooed out of your nest? Perhaps I shall see you if you are in London?

Yrs
Venetia

Detailed reports of meetings, some of which RAB attended. Notes for speech on broadcasting

Has kept term at Lincoln's Inn, dined with Charles Tindal, visited Eton, catholic spirit arising in Trinity, Knox and Wells have been confirmed in the Catholic Church and one has lost his scholarship and the other has been sent down, both were greatly esteemed by the High Church party in the University,

With feather enclosed.

29 Eaton Place - The Royal Society has determined that all the committee reports should be made general, and not specifically suited only to Captain Ross's [John Ross] voyage. Thus tides can now occupy a much larger place. Apart from the Physics committee, the others - Geology, Zoology and Botany - have set to work on preparing instructions for scientific travellers: 'so that they may in remote countries know how to add information when it is most wanted and Procure opinions of objects imperfectly known'. JWL believes he has discovered the true relation between elasticity and temperature in elastic fluids. Since this furnishes the condition of the atmosphere, he is testing it with light and hopes to produce a table of refractions.

Talbot is afraid that his son [Charles Henry Talbot] will not do very well in the forthcoming college examinations: 'He is often unwell, but even when well he finds himself almost incapacitated from reading. It is a thing to be pitied for it does not arise from idleness...He says, I experience a complete want of mental energy', asks Whewell to mention this to his son's tutor Mathison. Will send him some new specimens of photoglyphic engraving, given the interest the Whewell's took in the subject, and which he has now much improved.

Alexandria; sent to the Guardian at 5 Burleigh Street, Strand, London. Date given at end as 15 Oct 1862; if this is in the Julian calendar the Gregorian equivalent is 27 Oct. Regarding the allegations of C. Simonides that the Codex Sinaiticus published by Tischendorf was in fact the work of Simonides himself.

Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee - Thanks him for the books [the last of the third edition of the GB?]; refers to a difficulty caused by Sam [Samuel McCall Frazer] selling Ninian's silver cup [Ninian Bannatyne Frazer].

Had been hoping to see her. Does not think that he shall be able to come until the end of term. Announces that he has written to William to say that he should be glad to stay with him at Oxford from 17 to 23 [December], when his mother is expected to be there. Intends to go to Rugby then for about a fortnight, from 23 December to 5 January. Asks if he may ask Graham Dakyns to stay with them then. Reports that he is pretty fully employed in Cambridge and is enjoying his work, but begins to 'feel the need of taking a little care of digestion etc.' Announces that he has discovered 'what to take for Lunch!', which he heralds as 'a great discovery'; a pot of Liebig's Entractum Carnis. Admits to be 'a little sad' at the way the elections there turned out. Encourages her to read Greater Britain by Dilke. Claims to read hardly any new books now. Reports that his new rooms are 'almost decent'. Asks her to tell Arthur that he consented 'in deference to people who ought to be wiser than [himself], not to bring forward [their] motions again this year: and therefore did not write for his signature'.

Observes that 'there does not appear to be any English book worth much as a systematic statement of any political theory.' In answer to a question asked by Sidgwick, he suggests the names and works of writers on politics, economy and philosophy, and comments on their writings. Refers to Locke's Treatises on Government; Liberty Lord Bolingbroke's Patriot King; Hume's political essays; any of Burke's works, including the speeches on American taxation and on economical reform, as well as 'the reflexions on [the] French Revolution', which 'preceded Godwin and are therefore not included [ ] by your limit of time...'; Tom Paine; Bentham's Fragment on Government, which, he believes is 'too much in the controversial way and dependent upon [a] Blackstone'; [Priestley]; [Tucker]. Admits that he has given too long a list, and states that his preference would be for Locke, Hume, Burke, Godwin and Bentham.

Reports that '[t]he medallion of Sir Henry Maine has now been placed in the Abbey', and that since 'the fee required of the Abbey [ ] has unexpectedly been lowered below the amount originally mentioned', they now have a balance in hand of about £80. Asks his opinion on 'the proper disposal of this surplus money', Sidgwick having taken 'an active part in collecting subscriptions at Cambridge for the Memorial'. Mentions the putting up of a tablet or some other commemorative monument at Cambridge, 'in Trinity Hall or elsewhere', and expresses his willingness to lay Sidgwick's suggestions before Lord Cross and the Committee. Suggests that he might like to consult others 'who may be interested in the matter', but emphasises that here he is not writing under his authority.

Palatino (Rome). Dated 25.iii (1913) - Thanks him for the first volume on 'The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead'; it has made him think of the fear of death of the indigenous Siculi or Liguri who lived in the foothills of the Palatine, hopes to show him the mysterious [word missing] a new one just discovered under the oldest republican house under Domitian's Lararium; a doctor friend says he's seen a difference in the ways those in the north face death compared to those from the south; next May wants to go to Eton to examine some sketches, and will be doing a lecture in London, hopes to see them then.

Mattishall - received notice of the birth of Blakesley's son from Mr Chambers

Greetings and cards from various relations, early notes to parents, sketches and drawings, c.1905-17.

(Bibliog. 106).

5pp. typescript draft.

Includes correspondence with A.C. Egerton.

Presented to Thomson by the University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences, USA, for his work on the Physics of the electron'

Visit to deliver the Royal Society – Australian National University, John Curtin School of Medical Research 1986 Florey Lecture, 'Vaccine Prevention of Virus-Induced Human Cancers', 3–21 August 1986, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra. Sir Anthony was appointment the Royal Society' Florey Lecturer for 1986 to deliver the lecture and undertake the lecture tour in Australia.

jacques chambrun, inc. 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City - Asks for essays or articles for the American market, and cites the other writers for whom he acts as agent.