Letter from [Ernest Fox] Nichols, Columbia University, Department of Physics, Phoenix Laboratory, New York City, to [Joseph] Larmor He thanks Larmor for acting promptly in their affairs. He asks if [Thomas Henry] Havelock was in Larmor's lectures in 1904-1905. [Richard Cockburn] Maclaurin's successor will have to teach mechanics to undergraduate engineers. The Engineering Faculty worry that the terms will not tempt a young man to take the job and acquire a knowledge of mechanics. They will be inclined to attack unless they get a facile teacher. He asks what kind of men Havelock has taught and notes that it is because of the engineers that they have hesitated to invite [Alfred Heinrich] Bucherer. They have not invited [Max] Abraham, although he has visited recently and would gladly come. 6 December 1908