| RefNo | MS/603/4/121 |
| Previous numbers | 709 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Henry Higgs, 3 Lexham Gardens, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Higgs; Henry (1864-1940); British civil servant and economist |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 4 May 1910 |
| Description | With regret, he must release Larmor from his promise of £100 towards a Chair for [Herbert Somerton] Foxwell. The heart has been taken out of the movement by bankers - [Felix Otto] Schuster, [Robert Harry Inglis] Palgrave and [Frederick] Huth Jackson - not contributing. If they had, others would have followed 'like a flock of sheep' and the result is 'disgusting and disheartening'. He has just returned from the United States where there was a Chair of Banking and several others in the Faculties of Economics in each serious university. It is a national disgrace that there is only one such Chair in Oxford and Cambridge. |
| Extent | 3p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |