| Description | Correspondence from Richard Haldane [1856-1928, Viscount Haldane, politician, educationist, and lord chancellor].
/1 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from Coton House, Rugby, dated 18 December 1904. Haldane discusses Lodge's 'Mind and Matter'. He agrees with Lodge's criticism of Hachel. He discusses a philosophical idea he hopes Lodge will examine. He writes that Birmingham will benefit from the preliminary report of the University College Committee. With pencil annotation by OJL, in which he writes that Haldane's meaning is not entirely clear to him but he supposes he is refering to 'Hegelianism'.
/2 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from the War Office, Whitehall, dated 14 July 1911. Haldane thanks Lodge for his suggestion and asks where he could get more information about the Italian ?Hail Tube [handwriting unclear].
/3 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from Brooks's, St James's Street, dated 2 September ?1902. Haldane asks Lodge to join him and other 'progressive Liberals' by writing a short paper in favour of the Education Bill.
/4 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from 28 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, dated 24 June 1913. Haldane writes that the Board of Education does not have a vacancy suitable for Dr ?Gay.
/5 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from 28 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, dated 7 July 1913. Haldane declines to give the Huxley lecture due to other commitments.
/6 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from 28 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, dated 23 June 1918. Haldane comments on Lodge's papers on 'the Astronomical Consequences of the Electrical Theory of Matter'.
/7 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire, dated 7 September 1920. Haldane explains why he doubts the existence of the ether, with reference to Whitehead's 'Concept of Nature'.
/8 Letter from Richard Haldane to Oliver Lodge, written from 28 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, dated 23 February 1921. Haldane responds to the discussion in Nature: 'My doubt is whether you do not regard reality unduly as lost or degraded. I think that its meaning is changed - that is all'. |