| Description | Correspondence with Elizabeth 'Betty' Balfour [1867-1942, countess of Balfour, social hostess and biographer, married Gerald William Balfour in 1887]. These letters have been re-ordered chronologically and re-numbered.
/1 Letter from Betty Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Fisher's Hill, Woking, dated 2 October 1923. Balfour suggests a date for Lodge's eagerly awaited visit.
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Lady Betty, dated 3 October 1923. Lodge discusses the date of his visit to see the Balfours.
/3 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Lady Betty, dated 29 October 1923. Lodge comments on Bernard Shaw's 'Heartbreak House'. He thanks Balfour for her hospitality.
/4 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Lady Betty, dated 9 August 1927. Lodge discusses his son's book ['What Art Is' by Oliver William Foster Lodge], the two-thousand year cycle thesis supported by Flinders Petrie, and the evolution of ideas.
/5 Letter from Betty Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Fisher's Hill, Woking, dated 3 November 1929. The Balfours are impressed with Lodge's book and hope he will visit.
/6 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Lady Betty, dated 5 November 1929. Lodge is kept busy with speaking engagements. He asks whether the Balfours heard his talk on the wireless in which he criticised Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and J. B. S. Haldane.
/7 Letter from Betty Balfour to Oliver Lodge, written from Fisher's Hill, Woking, dated 14 November 1933. The Balfours look forward to the visit of Lodge and his daughter.
/8 Letter from [Lord Gerald] Balfour to Oliver Lodge, dated 29 February 1936, with envelope. Balfour thanks Lodge for his letter of sympathy [on the death of his sister Eleanor Sidgwick, 1845-1936, college head]. |