| Description | 'Thank you very much for you lines of June 15th which I read with great interest. i should be very pleased to see you when you come to London. Perhaps you would be good enough to drop me a line that wwe can arrange an appointment.
May I approach you in another matter: Dr. Hermann von Socher, an Austrian weho studied at Berlin and became in 1927 Director of the Student's Observatory at Berlin University, is still interned in the isle of Man. in the autumn of 1940 it was his own wish that no application should be made for his release unless he could get an immediate employment through the Central Register. Von Socher is now applying for help to get an emplyment in order that he can be released from internment. I wrote to Professor Finley-Freundlich on his behalf but Professor Freundlich does not know of any emmployment for him. Von Socher is well recommended by the Society of Friends (he is a so-called Aryan), he is a political refugee, he would take up any employment - even temporary - in the field of scientific instruments (except electrical) of high precision, scientific photography, meteorological observing. If you should know of any possibility for von Socher I should be most grateful.
Thanks as well for kkindly informing me about Mrs. Cooke's address.' |