Description | Correspondence from Lionel Lodge, son of Oliver Lodge. With note identifying the correspondent and giving a reference to Oliver Lodge's autobiography 'Past Years'.
/1 Letter from Lionel Lodge to Oliver Lodge, written from The Wick, Barnt Green, near Birmingham, dated 8 December 1921. Lionel declines an offer of money. He believes the message from the last sitting relates to his company's fume plants.
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Lionel Lodge, dated 16 August 1926. Annotated: 'Lodge-Cottrell process'. Oliver Lodge sends detailed suggestions regarding design of manufacturing equipment. He tells Lionel to write to his uncle Alfred to get the problem properly worked out. With unrelated postage stamp attached.
/3 Letter from Lionel Lodge to Oliver Lodge, written from The Wick, Barnt Green, near Birmingham, dated 29 January 1932. With envelope. Lionel Lodge writes about Arthur Smithell's positive review of 'Past Years'. He congratulates Lodge on being awarded the Faraday Medal. He writes: 'The family lives happily in your shadow - I suppose we shall never realise how much your name is helping all of us'. |