| Description | Correspondence with Arthur James Balfour [1848-1930, first earl of Balfour, prime minister and philosopher].
/1 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Whittingehame, dated 9 October 1899. Balfour would like to attend Lodge's dinner but may not be available on the 17th.
/2 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 21 November 1899. Balfour enjoyed Lodge's Physical Society Dinner and is glad he was not called upon to speak: 'I might have said something that I should afterwards have regretted on the relations between Government and Science'. He regrets that he cannot attend on the 30th due to the death of his aunt.
/3 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 9 March 1900. Balfour asks for information about Larmor's circumstances.
/4 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 17 May 1900. Balfour sends a copy of a letter he has written to FitzGerald on the subject of Mrs Preston. He can find £50 for Whittle's research but the source of the funding must be kept secret.
/5 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 4 March 1901, with envelope. Balfour sends a copy of a letter he has written to Mahaffy about providing a pension for Professor Fitzgerald's widow (letter included).
/6 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 18 February 1901. Balfour thanks Lodge for his letter; he is reassured that his ideas are not as utopian as some of his friends say.
/7 Letter from Arthur Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 18 November 1902. Balfour tells Lodge that it is not necessary to include the word 'sanitary' in an unspecified agreement.
/8 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 24 January 1903. Balfour read Lodge's articles in the Hibbert Jounal with interest but has decided not to write anything on philosophy.
/9 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 6 May 1903. Balfour corrects an error made in his recent speech: the idea of using national credit to aid purchase had been admitted before 1883.
/10 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 24 June 1903. Balfour read Lodge's Romanes Lecture with great interest.
/11 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 11 July 1903, with envelope. Balfour was amused by Kelvin last night, who propounded his views on Radium in opposition to Lodge's theories.
/12 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 26 April 1904. Balfour has ordered a copy of J. J. [Thomson]'s Yale lectures. He thanks Lodge 'for all the delightful talks we had at Clouds'.
/13 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, dated 13 May 1904. Balfour thanks Lodge for suggested reading material on J.J. [Thomson]'s book and Kelvin's lectures. He is worried about preparing an adequate address for Cambridge by 17 August.
/14 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 19 July 1904. Balfour will try to speak to Graham Murray about the possibility of nominating Professor Macneile Dixon for an unspecified post. He sends the first part of his address. He looks forward to 'Radiation'.
/15 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 9 August 1904. Balfour looks forward to discussing the letters of Larmor and Poynting. He asks Lodge to read over his address and advise on terminology.
/16 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Whittingehame, dated 25 September 1904. Balfour sends thanks for Lodge's 'Mechanics' and compliments the textbook.
/17 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 11 November 1904, with envelope. Balfour writes that he shares Lodge's concerns about the possibility of Gore becoming Bishop of Birmingham.
/18 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 7 March 1905. Balfour discusses the resignation of George Wyndham.
/19 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, dated 16 October 1905. Balfour approves of Lodge's chapter on 'Energy and Guidance' and attempts to summarise its central argument.
/20 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 6 December 1905, with envelope. Balfour has received a 'conclusive' letter from J. J. Thomson. He hopes to take a larger part in the synthetic work in future.
/21 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, dated 11 May 1906. Balfour regrets that he is unable to attend Poynting's lecture. He comments on J. J. [Thomson]'s research on electrons.
/22 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, dated 2 May 1907. Balfour is afraid that Lodge is under a popular misapprehension about his philosophy and sends a copy of his book 'Foundations'.
/23 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, dated 16 October 1917. Having read Lodge's Science Quarterly article Balfour refers Lodge to his Gifford lectures in which he raised the question of the connection between mass and gravitation.
/24 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Whitehall, dated 9 December 1919. Balfour assures Lodge that the Radio Research Board review will not endanger the continuance of valuable work such as that being carried out at the Woolwich Wireless Works.
/25 Letter from Arthur Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, dated 3 July 1920. Balfour thanks Lodge for sending a copy of his British Association Address.
/26 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, dated 10 August 1920. Balfour congratulates Lodge on the arbitration and thanks him for the copy of 'Continuity'. He is unsure about Bernard Russell's mathematic-philosophical speculations and asks for Lodge's opinion.
/27 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, Scotland, dated 20 September 1923. Balfour thanks Lodge for sending his paper.
/28 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Arthur James Balfour, dated 9 April 1924. Lodge sends a copy of his article on Balfour's 'Theism and Thought'. He recommends Bernard Shaw's play 'Saint Joan'.
/29 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, dated 6 June 1924. Balfour thanks Lodge for his sympathetic review of 'Theism and Thought'. He believes the book is unlikely to gain approval from many quarters. He admires Lodge's 'Making of Man'.
/30 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, dated 25 June 1924. Balfour sends a pamphlet on the doctrine of Relativity written by Professor Montague of Columbia University. He believes the subject of relativity falls between the work of philosophers and mathematicians.
/31 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Arthur James Balfour, dated 3 July 1924. Lodge discusses work on relativity by Professor Montague and Professor Benedicks, and comments on theories of light.
/32 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Carlton Gardens, Pall Mall, dated 11 March 1926. Balfour thanks Lodge for sending a copy of his lecture.
/33 Letter from Arthur James Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, Scotland, dated 7 September 1926. Balfour is sorry he had to leave the British Association meetings early. He thanks Lodge for sending a copy of his article which will not appear in the Transactions. |