Letter from G H [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, Trinity College, Cambridge, to [Joseph] Larmor [Sydney] Chapman was exempted at the last tribunal on the grounds of national interest, but has been appealed against by the military representative. His case should be more carefully prepared this time, and Hardy asks Larmor if he would give a strong statement of Chapman's value as an applied mathematician. They will also have to get a statement from someone as to his sincerity, although 'his attitude throughout has been notorious in Trinity from the beginning'. The local tribunal was too obviously anxious to let him off, Hardy thinks, but 'what is the sense of getting a man like him to dig or scrub floors...?' Chapman was reluctant, but Hardy proposed asking Larmor himself. The statement should be sent directly to Chapman. Hardy will return if an appeal is held, and he gives his contact address. 28 March 1916