Letter from Rudolph Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The intermediate state of superconductors. I. Magnetization of superconducting cylinders in transverse magnetic fields' by M Désirant and David Shoenberg Finds it hard to decide whether the paper should be published in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. Proceedings would be preferable, as printing it in Philosophical Transactions would mean a longer delay in publication which would be undersirable for the important results contained in the paper. [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1948]. Endorsed on recto as received 17 January 1948. 16 January 1948