Reference number | NLB/56 |
Alternative reference number | NLB/56 |
Level | File |
Title | New Letter Book volume 56, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration |
Date | 1 November 1918-27 June 1919 |
Description | New Letter Book volume 56 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers, soirees and other annual routines. Volume 56 also covers the subject of the First World War.
Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison.
Primary recipients: Sir David Bruce; Andrew Russell Forsyth; Harrison & Sons; William Abbott Herdman; Frederick Gowland Hopkins; James Hopwood Jeans; Sir David Prain; William Jackson Pope; Sir Joseph John Thomson.
Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter. |
Extent | 516p comprising 916 letters |
Format | Carbon |
Manuscript |
Physical description | Half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. The binding is sound, but the spine is slightly affected by red rot. |
Dimensions | Height 44(cm), width 29(cm). |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8153 | Bruce; Sir; David (1855 - 1931); bacteriologist and parasitologist | 1855 - 1931 |
NA6837 | Forsyth; Andrew Russell (1858 - 1942); mathematician | 1858 - 1942 |
NA6570 | Herdman; Sir; William Abbott (1858 - 1924) | 1858 - 1924 |
NA6168 | Hopkins; Sir; Frederick Gowland (1861 - 1947); biochemist | 1861 - 1947 |
NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |
NA8273 | Prain; Sir; David (1857 - 1944); botanist | 1857 - 1944 |
NA8272 | Pope; Sir; William Jackson (1870 - 1939); chemist | 1870 - 1939 |
NA8288 | Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist | 1856 - 1940 |
NA6638 | Kempe; Sir; Alfred Bray (1849 - 1922) | 1849 - 1922 |
NA8209 | Dyson; Sir; Frank Watson (1868 - 1939); astronomer | 1868 - 1939 |
NA1735 | Chree; Charles (1860 - 1928); physicist | 1860 - 1928 |
NA773 | Cushny; Arthur Robertson (1866 - 1926) | 1866 - 1926 |
NA6247 | Strahan; Sir; Aubrey (1852 - 1928) | 1852 - 1928 |
NA7825 | Clerk; Sir; Dugald (1854 - 1932); mechanical engineer | 1854 - 1932 |
NA1231 | Harker; John Allen (1870 - 1923); physicist and engineer | 1870 - 1923 |
NA8140 | Bragg; Sir; William Henry (1862 - 1942); physicist | 1862 - 1942 |
NA1375 | Hill; Micaiah John Muller (1856 - 1929); mathematician | 1856 - 1929 |