Record

RefNoRHB/1/9/2
Previous numbersA.180-A.194
LevelFile
TitleCorrespondence with H H Brown
Date15 March 1951 - 13 June 1967
DescriptionHanbury Brown's love letters to his future wife, Heather, and his letters home after they were married early in 1952. Includes his description of the 10th General Assembly of the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), Sydney, August 1952, when URSI met for the first time in the Southern hemisphere (see A.190), and of the 12th General Assembly of URSI in Boulder, Colorado, USA, in 1957 (see A.193). Among other locations, Hanbury Brown also wrote from the Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, France, in 1961.

A.180 contains an obituary of Heather Hanbury Brown, who died in June 2003.
Extent15 folders
AccessStatusOpen
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