Letter from H M [Hector Munro] Macdonald, 52 College Bounds, Old Aberdeen, to [Joseph] Larmor Larmor promised to dine with Macdonald at Clare [College] on Sunday, and he supposes that Larmor forgot or was prevented from coming. He understands that there is an opening for a professorship in the Transvaal and Larmor may be consulted in the matter. His assistant Goodwillie is an applicant, and Macdonald thinks it time he had something better than his present job. Macdonald notes that [William Davidson] Niven has accepted [Presidency of the London Mathematical Society], thanks to Larmor's diplomatic message. He knows from Burnside that Niven could not attend the last meeting, but is now well again; his address 'will take about fifteen minutes so we won't be bored by it even if we don't understand it'. 28 October 1908