| Description | Correspondence from (Sara) Margery Fry [1874-1958, penal reformer and college head]. With note giving brief information about Margery Fry (possibly in Lodge's hand).
/1 Letter from S. Margery Fry to Oliver Lodge, written from University House, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, dated 7 February 1910. Fry thanks Lodge for writing to the Post about the student play. She expresses her gratitude for his support: 'Whenever I hear, as I often do, of the difficulties which women have to meet with in other universities I realise that their absence here is very largely due to your own attitude of unfailing kindness'.
/2 Letter from S. Margery Fry to Oliver Lodge, written from 7 Dalmeny Avenue, London, dated 11 July 1923. Fry promises to write to John Stephens if she hears of a suitable position. She adds that she does not have much contact with Woodbrooke.
/3 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Margery Fry, dated 13 July 1923. Lodge writes about his home-life in Salisbury and invites Fry to visit.
/4 Letter from S. Margery Fry to Oliver Lodge, written from the Howard League for Penal Reform, 18 Savoy Street, Strand, dated 6 July 1925. Fry asks Lodge to speak at the launch of a campaign for the abolition of capital punishment.
/5 Letter from S. Margery Fry to Oliver Lodge, written from the Howard League for Penal Reform, 18 Savoy Street, Strand, dated 7 July 1925. Fry invites Lodge to a party being held for the International Prison Congress and asks him to Chair a short meeting at the Reception.
/6 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Margery Fry, dated 9 July 1925. Lodge writes that he is unable to attend the party and does not feel he is the right person to speak on the subject of the abolition of capital punishment as his mind is not settled on the matter. |