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Sender: Smithells, Arthur
Recipient: Thomson, William, Lord Kelvin
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Aug 1892
Location: SC MS 391/69
Note: Origin of the earth; solar spectrum. TS with MS amendments. 3 ff.; top copy of draft (?).
Sender: Wroot, Herbert Edward
Recipient: Kendall, Percy Fry, Professor
Letters: 3
Date(s): 18 Jan 1932 -
Location: SC MS 570/100, 105, 110
Note: 1) A paper by Professor Briggs; speculation on effect upon strata of the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation. 2) A geological meeting at Huddersfield; lecture by Henry Cherry Versey and ensuing controversy with Albert Gilligan and others. 3) Booksellers at Harrogate and elsewhere; A. Gilligan.
Sender: Delza, Lisa (Elizabeth Delza School of the Dance)
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): No date
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Conveys heavy grief and sympathy on the death of A R Orage and adds "Our loss is, and will be, irreplaceable.Not often does God give to earth a man of such grandeur of being. But we have been blessed in knowing him, and having had contact with the living force within him".
Sender: Stewart, Muriel
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Nov 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Offers sympathy and kind thoughts from the members of the Rotherham Social Credit Society on the death of A R Orage. Writes "Mr Orage has continually inspired us in our work for the greatest cause on earth, and we know that he cannot be replaced: we can only work the harder now to bring into being the day that was his constant vision".
Sender: Strutt, Robert John, Lord Rayleigh
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 9
Date(s): 12 Nov 1922 - 19 Jul 1932; 6 n.d. [c. 1900 - 1918
Location: SC MS 416/306, 315, 366, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418
Note: 1) Returns a volume (? "From a Modern University" (1921)]; education a thankless task; his own research. MS. 2) Bibliographical reference to drying by sulphuric acid. MS. 3)
Acknowledges a letter from AS about his visit to Caen. MS. 4)
The earth's core; oxygen in the sun; solar and stellar spectra.
MS. 4 ff. c. 1900-1906, whilst Strutt was a fellow of Trinity. 5) Requests copy of AS's paper on spectrum of carbon ("Phil. Mag.", vol. 51, 1901). MS. 2 ff. Probably c. 1909-1914. 6) Glow of phosphorus and natural luminosity. MS. 2 ff. Refers to AS's address to British Association in 1907. 7) Further about luminosity of natural organic bodies. MS. 2 ff. 8) Yellow flame of some nitrogen compounds. MS. 2 ff. c. 1909-1914. 9) Criticism of his work by E.A.T. Tiede; will delay publishing a book until after the war. MS. 2 ff. c. 1914-1918.