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Sender: Watson, James H.F.
Recipient: Oakley, Cyril Leslie, Professor
Letters: 15
Date(s): 6 Apr 1922 - 10 Oct 1924
Location: MS 666/93/1, 93/2, 93/3, 93/4, 93/5, 93/6, 93/7, 93/8, 93/9,
93/10, 93/11, 93/12, 93/13, 93/14, 93/15
Note: Juvenilia: some items in cipher. Mostly in pencil.
Sender: Gott, Beryl Katherine
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 6
Date(s): 14 Apr 1932 - 4 Feb 1941
Location: SC 622/37, 89, 93, 94, 102, 169
Note: 1) Encloses two guineas for his pains. Date added by FB in pencil. 2) Her future arrangements. 3) Has received the (catalogue?) cards. 4) Enclosing a cheque. 5) Thanks for a book containing her grandfather's signature; his visiting Wales. 6) References to W. Hall in the "Life of Dean Hook".
Sender: Bryant, Arthur Wynnee Morgan
Recipient: Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish
Letters: 9
Date(s): 2 Jan 1940 - 17 Apr 1977
Location: SC 709/86, 90, 92, 93, 100, 213, 222, 314, 611
Note: 1) Importance of HDW's work. MS. 2) Expenses incurred when working for Union and Reconstruction. 3) Enquiry about HDW's brother. MS. 4) Requests critical comment on some chapters of a book. MS. 5) Sends a second copy of "English Saga". MS. 6) Acknowledgement. 7) Acknowledgment. 8) Acknowledgment. 9) Asks HDW to provide introductions for Lorelei Robinson in India. MS.
Sender: Lewes, Vivian Byam
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 7
Date(s): 19 Jan 1895 - 20 Jan 1896; 1 n.d.
Location: SC MS 416/92, 93, 96, 102, 108, 112, 408
Note: 1) Price of carbide; his evaluation of its illumination value;
enrichment of acetylene. TS. 2 ff. 2) More about his evaluation of calcium carbide; commercial considerations. MS. 3) Proposed lecture in Leeds; an "old marine" his laboratory assistant. TS. 4) Offers AS some calcium carbide; smell of acetylene made from carbide. TS. 5) Returns draft paper to AS; disagreement over acetylene theory; attendance at Chemistry Society lecture and invites AS to stay with him. MS. 2 ff. 6) His controversy with AS. MS. 2 ff. 7) Last three lines of a letter, and signature. MS. Verso blank.