Witte Huis. - The mild weather has turned to an 'old fashioned winter' so Arend [her son] has gone skating at Vinkeveen. Jan [her husband] has not yet been skating, but will do so when it turns less cold. He has been for a short stay in Mürren and Lauterbrunnen [Switzerland] as chef d'équipe of the Dutch students skiing group. Julie Graffman [her daughter] is staying here at the moment with her youngest child Sture; Holger [Julie's husband] is coming in about four days and they will all then travel to America. Six architects have also been staying, one of them Lucia [another daughter]'s husband [Van Ginkel]. Two of the architects are English - John Voelcker, and Peter Smithson, who knows Julian and 'thinks highly of him' - they are leaving tomorrow. All the architects love the Paddestoel [Lucia Hubrecht's house] and also think the Witte Huis 'very charming': how her aunt Bramine and Alphonse Grandmont 'knew how to live!', though she herself would like to be in Sicily [where Bramine Hubrecht and Alphonse Hubrecht also had a house] now for the winter. Sends her own love and that of Jan, who is sitting by the fire downstairs reading to Julie, Lucia, and the wife of a friend of Arend who works at the United Nations in America. Tante Liesje [?] is 'the same & well looked after'.
Turf Club, Cairo. Dennis [Robertson] visited DAW, deep-seated animosity between G H Hardy and G T Lapsley, Lapsley will make a good tutor.
87 Clement’s Inn, W.C.—Sends his love.
10 Downing Street, Whitehall.—The Prime Minister (Eden) is about to re-appoint the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, and wishes to know whether Pethick-Lawrence is prepared to continue to serve as a member.
Press cuttings about money-lending in India, India Bill, Ministers and election prospects, letters to and about RAB (4 docs), Sefardi Jews and the India Bill including letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, appreciations of India Bill from Asiatic Review, seating plan and menu for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Name Day Feast 1935, Quetta earthquake, two letters of congratulation on RAB's talks at Imperial Defence College, Prime Minister's visit to Stanstead Hall including photographs (3 docs), article by RAB: 'After eight years - India Act on statute book', Essex politics, General Election including photographs (3 docs), other parties' election propaganda, article by RAB 'A victory of peace', 'Candidate's suggested meetings for General Election 1935' etc. with annotations by RAB, Naval Conference, award of V.C. to Captain Meynell, death of H.M. |King George V, Locarno Treaty, Cambridge Union debate in support of socialism opposed by RAB, three letters of congratulation on Bridgwater meeting, Indian reform including photographs (2 docs), Declaration of abdication of Edward VIII, birth and christening of Samuel James Butler, coronation of H.M. King George VI, coronation letter from Richard Clive Butler to his grandmother, RAB's accident with letter from RAB to parents, letters re RAB's move to Ministry of Labour, International Labour Conference at Geneva, new Government, 40-hour week, RAB's account of proceedings at Geneva with photograph, instructional centres, Mastership of Pembroke College, Cambridge, article by RAB on 'Great Britain and the 40-hour week', opening of rope-works at Leith with letter from Aunt Isabel Ross
The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691 - Offers PS an honorary Doctor of Letters.
Edinburgh - Could WW send Professor Jameson 'a complete and authentic copy of the lecture delivered by you at the Society of Arts for publication in his journal now in the press' ['The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition of the Progress of Art and Science', 1850]. JDF took a second trip to London 'to make a more careful study of parts of the exhibition and to endeavour to procure some modest instruments for my collection in connection with my lectures'. This proved very difficult as 'the better class of exhibitors' did not want to part with them. However, Mr Biddell (a cousin of Mr Airy's), was in charge of the machinery department and in the end he was able to procure 'more than I could have hoped for the college nearly £200 worth of apparatus, chiefly models of machinery and engineering matter'. The Norwegian glaciers are very similar to the ones in Switzerland. 'We have got a favourable part of a committee of the H. of Commons on the urgency of the trigonometrical survey of Scotland. we are now opening a battery to press for the geological survey'.
Thurlby Hall, Newark - EB returns George Green's memoir - 'altered and freely cut down, as yourself and Mr Murphy were so obliging as to suggest'. EB considers WW 'our sole calm examiner' on Political Economy, but 'was disheartened by 'Definitions come last', yet this is merely to say, that analysis precedes synthesis'. Under the title of 'Heresies' EB gives two kinds of Rent - 1. Of consumption and 2. Rent from capital invested: 'The equation has two roots, like the two spheroids of equilibrium, one the active speculating Rent of high let land, and the other the passive slovenly Rent of land underlet - the conditions of the Labouring Class depends on the number of farms sufficiently large to employ labourers. Parishes split into pieces are always at war with the poor, as each man is sufficient to labour his own land, and does not employ a labourer without compulsion'. EB claims that the word capital should be replaced with 'Productive Power, land, labour, machinery, money etc, all having distinct 'Laws' - It is incorrect to think labour alone productive'.
HT presents his compliments to WW for the 'Verse Translations from the German'.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey - Now has the bark from Mr Honey which looks like Erythrophloeum, but is still waiting on the specimens from the others; re: Mondjo, they have failed to trace this name and speculates that it is 'Datura fastuosa' collected by the Swiss missionary [Henri] Junod for [Hans] Schinz.
War Department, Washington. Dated June 12, 1889 - Several of his letters to Frazer have been misaddressed and are being sent again; is revising his new books and asks for any references he may wish to send.
Concerns Of the Plurality of Worlds.
Asks Sidgwick to put his name down [as one who supports the setting up of a Syndicate to inquire into the issue of allowing of alternatives for one of the classical languages in the Previous Examination], and as agreeing with the letter signed by Sidgwick and others [see 101/99;102].
Sin títuloApologises for what he feels to be 'an apparent intrusion into matters too private and personal.' Explains that he has read Henry Sidgwick's works, such as The Methods of Ethics, Outlines of the History of Ethics for English Readers and Philosophy, Its Scope and Relations as a student of philosophy at Queen's College in Belfast. States that the first result of studying The Methods of Ethics was to fill him 'with a reverence towards the moral and intellectual nature of its author', and claims that there is no man to whose opinion on any question which he investigated he would attach so much importance and authority. Claims that the works also inspired another feeling in him 'one of a purely emotional nature, something, perhaps, akin to love, if that were possible towards one whom one has never met.' States that as the feeling has grown stronger he has wished to know more about Henry's life and character, but has only been able to secure two short biographical sketches - 'one in Bryce's Contemporary Studies, and a short obituary notice in Frederic Myers Fragments of Prose and Poetry'. Wonders whether a memoir might have been printed for private circulation and if so suggests that she might send it to him.
2 ms. drafts for lecture, 8pp. and 5pp. Created while at Stanford University, California, 1947-48, 1950.
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.
Correspondence and papers dating from 1949, 1961, 1962.
Includes invitations to Royal Evening Party, Buckingham Palace, 23 April, and the marriage of the Duke of York to the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Westminster Abbey, 26 April.
Based on a lecture presented at EBD@50, the international meeting in Oxford to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first publication on the Epstein-Barr virus by Sir Anthony, Bert Achong, and Yvonne Barr.
51 South Street, W.1. - Encloses a postal order for a subscription to the bibliography.
Frazer & Green Ltd., Manufacturing Chemists, Aerated Water Manufacturers, 127 Buchan Street, Glasgow, C.1. - Asks if he would sell any shares to the company so that a Manager of the Belmont Place branch may buy them.
Accompanied by the envelope, redirected from Trinity College to The Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras N.W.1.