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Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.84, 1.87-90, 1.97-113, 120,

122, 124-132, 136-138, 140-143

Note: 1) Invitation to dine. 1 p. 2) Enclosing letters from J.W. Thompson. 1 p. 3) About shrimps, etc., at the sea-side. 4 pp. 4) On sea-side fish. 4 pp. 5) On crabs and razor-fish. 4 pp. 6) About singing and dancing letters in Boulogne. 3 pp. 7) About his book "Just Intonation" and Signor Carulli, the Boulogne singing-master, etc. 2 pp. 8) About Boulogne. 4 pp. 9) About singing. 4 pp. 10) On a book about to be published, and Swift's "Directions to servants". 4 pp. 11) On grass-hoppers, snails, and places on the Isle of Wright. 4 pp. 12) Family news. 4 pp. 13) About singing lessons and his book. 4 pp. 14) About a remark of hers on American affairs. 1 p. With it is a note in ET's hand explaining allusions. 15) About singing lessons, his organ, and frogs. 4 pp. With it is a note in ET's hand explaining allusions. 16) About astronomy. 5 pp. 17) About Roman Catholics, a crocodile, and family news. 4 pp. 18) About his book "Just Intonation", the
Boulogne museum, and earthquakes. 4 pp. 19) About a passage in the "Edinburgh Review". 1 p. 20) About the singing class at Jewin Street. 4 pp. 21) On a monument to two Danish soldiers at Beverley, etc. 5 pp. 22) About Miss Northcote at Jewin Street. 2 pp. 23) About singing lessons with Signor Lablanche. 2 pp. 24) About songs, and Vergil's "Aeneid". 3 pp. 25) On Sydney Smith, "Just Intonation", and a magistrate at Bow Street. 6 pp. 26) On Sydney Smith, etc. 5pp. 27) About a hunt ball, geese, and ships. 4 pp. 28) On a ball-dress, and birds. 4 pp. 29) On ancient stones at Cottingham, fox-hunting, and woodcuts. 4 pp. 30) On stamps, geese, and a fire at the Zoological Gardens. 3 pp. 31) On a translation by Lord Derby, fox-hunting, and meteors. 6 pp. 32) On meteors, pepper, and Jewin Street. 3 pp. 33) On scorpions, Glastonbury, the atmosphere. 4 pp. 34) About plants. 3 pp. 35) Enclosing Hannah Adams' remarks on the five points distinguishing
Calvinists from Arminians. 2 pp. 36) On the Fenians. 4 pp. 37) On the Fenian troubles, capital punishment, and an anecdote about two Yorkshiremen. 6 pp. 38) About Bridlington in the Civil War, wasps and hornets. 4 pp. 39) About the Methodists at Cottingham, John Bright, and Jewin Street. 2 pp. 40) On the Methodist Chapel in George Yard, George Hall. 1 pp. Sender is grand-father of reipient, by his daughter Ellen.

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Location: SC 709/63, 94, 95, 99, 101, 103-111, 113, 116, 121, 122, 124,

127, 131, 135, 138, 139, 141-154, 156, 161, 164, 190, 192

Note: 1) Matters arising from memorandum on agriculture. 2 ff. 2)

Anxiety about Federal Union. 3) Arrangements about bases. 4)

Possible publication of memoranda. 5) Suggestion that Arthur

Bryant rewrite HDW's material for publication. 6) Suggestion

that Sir Frank Fox edit HDW's work. 7) American drive against

imperial preference. 8) Lease Lend Agreement. 9) Hindu-Moslem deadlock. 10) Acknowledgment of memorandum to be passed on to Fox for editing. 11) Suggestion that HDW's book be published in the UK as well as Canada. 12) Death of HDW's father; publication of book underway. 13) Publication of "The Foundation of the Future". 14) Encloses review of "The Foundation of the Future". 15) Utley appointed to edit HDW's papers. 16) Revision of HDW's memoranda. 17) General election results. 18) Cassation of land-lease. 19) Utley's abridgment of HDW's 1944-1945 reports. 20) Renewal of covenant with Bendor (i.e. Duke of Westminster). 21) Address of Scribner's agent. 22) Sends copy of "In the Rain and the Sun". 23) Typescript copies of 4 letters, May 1947. 24)

Imperial preference. 25) Meeting in Geneva. 26) Memorandum

on "Non-discrimination, customs union and preference. 27)

Beaverbrook's attitude to imperial preference. 28) Suitability

of pamphlet for American circulation. 29) Printing costs. 30) International trade. 31) "The Declaration of Independence". 32) Possible review of "The Declaration of Independence"; requests for help for Michelle Thomas, former fiancee of John Amery. 2 ff. 33) Grateful for money sent to Michelle Thomas. 34) "The Delaration of Independence" received by King Paul of Greece. 35) Activities of the Empire Industries Association. 36) Promises to send copy of his speech made to the English Speaking Union. 37) Anxious to meet HDW for discussion. 38) Problem of national nomenclature and the Crown. 39) Contact with Winston Churchill. 40) Tory conference at Blackpool. 41) International political

situation. 42) Use of economic terms for English readers. 43) Correspondence with Professor Taylor.

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Location: SC 709/316, 360, 371, 399, 400, 443, 451, 474, 481, 482, 485,

487, 490, 502, 510, 511, 517, 519, 522, 524, 531, 534, 535, 538,

541, 550, 553, 558, 562, 563,564, 569, 574, 584, 586, 587, 589,

590, 591, 594, 599, 601, 604, 606

Note: 1) Proposed autumn campaign. 2) Acknowledgment. 3) Debate on Commonwealth trade. MS. 4) Commonwealth trade. 5) General agreement on tariffs and trade. 6) Acknowledgment. 7) Acknowledgment. 8) Requests financial support for the Common Market Safeguards Campaign. 9) Appreciation of HDW's help in setting up the Common Market Safeguards Campaign. 10) Acknowledgment of donation. 11) Examples of literature being

sent to all election candidates. 12) Acknowledgment. 13)

Campaign progress report. 14) No advantage in linking the

Commonwealth Policy Safeguards Campaign to the Commonwealth Policy Group Ltd. 15) Acknowledgment of donation. 16) Confirms receipt of cheques. 17) Distribution of "Sovereignty and Fiscal Freedom". 18) TUC vote against entry. 19) Acknowledgment of donation. 20) In agreement with HDW's memorandum. 21) Campaign strategy following signature of the Treaty of Accession. 2 ff. 22) Requests payment of third annual donation. 2 ff. 23) Acknowledgment. 24) Acknowledgment of donation; second reading of the EEC Bill passed by only eight votes. 25) Acknowledgment; demand for referendum. 26) Acknowledgment; passage of the EEC Bill. 2 ff. 27) Campaign to continue until the next General Election; financial appeal from Ron Leighton on reverse. Printed

circular. 28) Acknowledgment; request for donation. 29)

Appreciation of promised donation. 30) Labour Party conference. 31) Commonwealth Policy Group Ltd. 2 ff. 32) Current campaign strategy. 2 ff. Photocopy. 33) Problems of establishing Commonwealth Policy Group Ltd. as a charity for tax purposes. 2 ff. 34) Progress with the Commonwealth Policy Group Ltd. 35) Commonwealth Policy Group Ltd. and the Common Market Safeguards Campaign. 3 ff. 36) Memorandum to be sent to Peter Shore. 37) Acknowledgment. MS. 38) Documents to be passed to Peter Shore. MS. 39) Discussion with Peter Shore; request for donation. 40) Referendum result. 41) Political situation after the referendum. 2 ff. 42) Acknowledgment. 43) Process of setting up new organisation. 44) Aims of the campaign.

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Location: SC MS 416/124, 125, 130, 158, 174, 180, 187, 189, 190, 192, 212, 309, 340, 423, 424

Note: 1) His flame experiments; spark discharges in various gases; views of G.G. Stokes. MS. 2 ff. 2) His experiments at Cambridge. MS. Apparently the missing portion of MS 391/37. 3) Application for Clerk Maxwell Scholarship; experimental method to examine spectrum of CCl4. MS. 2 ff. Diagrams. 4) Discussion at Cambridge on AS's paper and Swan spectrum; Prof. J. J. Thomson and J.S.E. Townsend. MS. 2 ff. 5) Dissolving the Victoria University; death of G.G. Stokes; J.J. Thomson; his own experimental work; new equipment at Cavendish Laboratory; need for work on radio-active elements. MS. 4 ff. 6) W. Hampson's book on radium; theory of mass. MS. 4 ff. 7) Opinion of Hampson's book; salt vapours in flames; his position at King's College. MS. 2 ff. 8) His election to a chair at King's College; gratitude for his training under AS. MS. 2 ff. 9) Thanks AS for support in his election as FRS; work of P.E. Lenard and salt vapours. MS. 2 ff. 10) Ions in flames. MS.,
diagram. 2 ff. 11) Encloses ticket for his lecture at Royal Institution; his experiments on conductivity and luminosity. MS. 12) His joint paper with A.A. Noyes; doubts on N. Bohr's theory; life in Texas; his own work; family news. MS. 2 ff. 13) Support for H.B. Dixon'c candidature for election as FRS; his reasons for leaving Glasgow for Houston; his life at Houston; Gouy's law on emission of light from salted flames; research on cracking oil and paraffins; Swan spectrum; quantum theory. MS. 14) A water pump; a carbon reaction; H2 and other flames with P; various other reactions. MS., diagrams. 4 ff.; first folio missing. c. 1897 (same watermark as MSS 391/35 and 391/36). 15) Observations on various flames. MS., diagrams. 2 ff. c. 1900-1901.

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