Reference number | NLB/55 |
Alternative reference number | NLB/55 |
Level | File |
Title | New Letter Book volume 55, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration |
Date | 5 November 1917-1 November 1918 |
Description | 5New Letter Book volume 55 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers and other annual routines. Volume 55 also covers the subject of the First World War.
Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison; Secretary, Arthur Schuster; Maud K. Jukes.
Primary recipients: Sir Dugald Clerk; William Henry Eccles; Harrison & Sons; William Abbott Herdman; James Hopewood Jeans; Sir Alfred Bray Kempe; Arthur Schuster; Sir Joseph John Thomson.
Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter. |
Extent | 516p containing 941 letters |
Format | Carbon |
Manuscript |
Physical description | Half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. Spine completely detached from binding. |
Dimensions | Height 44(cm), width 29(cm). |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA7825 | Clerk; Sir; Dugald (1854 - 1932); mechanical engineer | 1854 - 1932 |
NA1856 | Eccles; William Henry (1875 - 1966) | 1875 - 1966 |
NA6570 | Herdman; Sir; William Abbott (1858 - 1924) | 1858 - 1924 |
NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |
NA6638 | Kempe; Sir; Alfred Bray (1849 - 1922) | 1849 - 1922 |
NA6483 | Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist | 1851 - 1934 |
NA8288 | Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist | 1856 - 1940 |