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Includes obituaries and tributes, biographical notes by Jeffreys himself and transcriptions of interviews conducted by colleagues (see also Section H). There is career, honours and awards material spanning his whole life from birth certificate to his death including letters of condolence received by Lady Jeffreys. There is significant early material, for example, correspondence with St John's College tutors, 1909-1910, Jeffreys's notes of lectures by H.F. Baker, Ebenezer Cunningham and A.S. Eddington, 1911-1914, 'Letters from Johnians 1917', including M.H.A. Newman, records of Jeffreys's period with the Meteorological Office, 1917-1922, including copy of a reference from its director Sir Napier Shaw, and Jeffreys's memorandum on the constitution of the Senate at Cambridge, 1921, addressed to the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His appointment as Plumian Professor in 1946 and later honours, including 70th and 90th birthday celebrations, are documented. There is a little material relating to Jeffreys's father, 1886-1947, and a sequence of family and personal correspondence, 1917-1992, which reflects his continuing interest and connexions with the North East of England where he was born. Miscellaneous biographical items include a sketch book, possibly dating from Jeffreys's school days, a few letters relating to Jeffreys's early interests in photography and botany, including a letter from William Bateson, 1915, a collection of old railway tickets, Jeffreys's passports and a significant accumulation of travel literature.

Includes newspaper cuttings, correspondence, printed works, and manuscript notes.

Biographical material relating to T.R. Glover, including a scrapbook containing numerous obituary notices from various newspapers.

CV and Royal Society biographical record, personal memoirs of JAG, published biographical material from articles and websites, details of funeral, and obituaries.

This section documents Jeffreys's life from her childhood in the 1900s up to her nineties. The material includes records of school and undergraduate studies, and her continuing links with Northampton School for Girls. There is documentation of early testimonials, showing the high regard in which she was held, and her later honours and awards. There is a sequence of diaries 1975-1996, and a number of household, commonplace and address books. Jeffreys retained close ties with her native county of Northamptonshire and her keen interest in family and local history is recorded. It is unfortunate that there is not more evidence of her well-known musical pursuits. Photographs show Jeffreys from childhood to shortly before her death. However, the largest single component of this section is biographical material relating to her husband Sir Harold Jeffreys (1891-1989). Jeffreys devoted much of her time after his death to writing about his life and work, assisting others with biographical accounts and helping in other ways to preserve and honour his memory.

Speeches given to the School, menu card from a commemoration dinner.

Includes school and university certificates, university medals, material relating to election or appointment to offices, memberships, and fellowships, printed accounts relating to awards.

Five letters describing Fallow's personal circumstances, the state of the Colony, its political and economic situation, and early work on astronomical observations.