| Description | Correspondence with Helena Baillie [1865/6-1958, married Sir James Black Baillie in 1906].
/1 Letter from Helena Baillie to Oliver Lodge, written from Bardon Hill, Weetwood, Leeds, ?December 1931. Baillie thanks Lodge for sending a copy of his autobiographical book.
/2 Letter from Helena Baillie to Oliver Lodge, written from Bardon Hill, Weetwood, Leeds, dated 12 November 1925. Baillie thanks Lodge for gifts including a copy of 'The Making'.
/3 Letter from Helena Baillie to Oliver Lodge, written from Bardon Hill, Weetwood, Leeds, dated 30 September 1927, with envelope. The Baillies visited the conference at the Sorbonne in Paris but Lodge was not there. She thanks Lodge for sending a cutting from the Daily Mirror: 'Those two columns are packed with good things - just what we want to establish a balance'.
/4 Letter from Helena Baillie to Oliver Lodge, written from Bardon Hill, Weetwood, Leeds, dated 26 January 1931, with envelope. Baillie tells Lodge: 'You always come to us like an Angel & bring to us that "uplift" from the realm where Angels live'. She advises him not to exhaust himself with public speaking.
/5 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Helena Baillie, dated 1 September 1933. Lodge has declined an invitation to speak at Leeds. He explains why he does not currently believe in the hypothesis of four dimensions of space.
/6 Letter from Helena Baillie to Oliver Lodge, dated October [?1930]. Baillie thanks Lodge for sending a copy of The Strand. It seems the Lodges are having a 'little honey-moon' in their beautiful surroundings. |