Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Silver pocket watch and chain. Butler bequeathed these to Alfred Cathie, who presented them to St John's College in 1920. [See note in Henry Festing Jones's catalogue, p.58.]
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Watercolour on paper. Mounted and framed. [No. 75 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.]
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Watercolour on paper. Mounted and framed. Inscribed: 'Wassen. Sep. 1901. S.B.' (bottom right). [No. 74 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.]
Washington History Society plaque
Items relating to the unveiling of a plaque in Fatfield commemorating the birth of Harold Jeffreys there.
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
Handwritten manuscript with accompanying note in another hand stating that this appears to be a version of a chapter in FH's biography.
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Includes MS calculations showing the possibility of receiving radar echoes from the Moon, 1942; paper on 'Passive reflectors', 17 Nov. 1943; 'Note on scattering power of aircraft', 1942; letter to Sir Edward Appleton, 16 May 1945. With mounted photograph of the Lys Helig, a launch used for radar experiments at Llandudno, n.d.
Part of Papers of Bertha Jeffreys
Personal correspondence. Mary Walmsley entered Girton College in 1960. She excelled as an undergraduate and went on to research at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford, under C.A. Coulson before moving to the University of Leicester. See also C80, C81.
Part of Papers of Bertha Jeffreys
Part of Papers of Louis Joel Mordell
Letters from Arnold Walfisz to LJM.
Walfisz, Arnold (1892-1962) mathematician
Waldemar Hansen. Typescript letters to Beaton.
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Hansen, Waldemar (fl 1952-1973) playwright, poet, short story writer, translator and lecturer