| Description | Correspondence with Alfred Lodge (brother of Oliver Lodge), with note identifying correspondent and giving reference to Lodge's autobiography 'Past Years'.
/1 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Alfred Lodge, written from Rezzola, Pugliola, Spezia, Italy, dated 23 February 1926. Lodge describes the meaning of the word 'Entelechy'. He is glad that Alfred liked the magazine edited by Locker-Lampson. He has completed about a third of his book.
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Alfred Lodge, dated 29 April 1927. Lodge comments briefly on his trip to Belgium and family news. He sends information about the Leclanché battery, 'the best to use for such work as bell-ringing'.
/3 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Alfred Lodge, dated 17 March 1928. Lodges describes Whittaker's lecture on Schrodinger at the Royal Institution. He comments: 'I wish, as often, that I were more au fait with pure mathematics. And I also wished you had been there to hear him: it was a wonderful performance'. He believes that wave mechanics forms the beginning of a theory of the ether, 'though they do not admit that yet'.
/4 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Alfred Lodge, dated 19 March 1928. Lodge writes in detail about the Bohr theory of the atom, the quantum, radiation, and Schrodinger's wave theory. He writes about Whittaker's work, explaining that Whittaker regards the wave-front as speckled or having a speck in it, but no one knows what the speck is. He mentions George Thomson and Heaviside.
/5 Letter from Alfred Lodge to Oliver Lodge, written from 22 Marina, St Leonards on Sea, dated 14 September 1928. With envelope and enclosure. Alfred Lodge writes that there are always too many papers in Section A. He is not surprised by Searle's criticism of Lodge's use of a particular formula. Enclosing letter from Searle to Lodge, written from Wyncote, 170 Hills Road, Cambridge, dated 6 September 1928. Searle writes about visiting Trollhättan power station. He tells anecdotes to the effect that quantum theorists cannot prove what they say, and relativity appeals to people because it is declared highly intellectual. With page of notes on Lodge's 'Supplement 3'.
/6 Letter from Alfred Lodge to Oliver Lodge, written from 330 Banbury Road, Oxford, dated 28 January 1932. Congratulating Oliver Lodge on the Faraday Medal. |