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RefNoJFN/10/6
LevelFile
TitlePapers relating to an unfinished book on the physics of glacier flow by John Nye
Date1964-1974
DescriptionPapers relating to a book which Nye began writing in 1964. Some manuscript notes on possible chapters and contents for the book are present. The file includes correspondence with Clarenden Press, who agreed to publish the book, and includes the signed agreement between Clarenden and Nye. The file includes correspondence from 1967 with William Stanley Bryce Paterson who was writing a similar book, as well as ongoing correspondence with Clarenden Press about Nye's progress. The agreement to publish the book was cancelled in 1974.
Extent1 file
FormatCarbon
Manuscript
Typescript
NotesA note dated 16 April 2015 has been inserted into the file by Nye, explaining that in the course of writing the book he became distracted by some unsolved problems related to glaciers which delayed his own book. Nye also felt that Paterson's book covered the topics he was intending to write about already.
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