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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.