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/1 Memorandum from Oliver Lodge to L. B. & Co, written from Mariemont, Edgbaston, dated 3 May 1911. Lodge encloses letters and arranges a meeting. With four enclosures: copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Henry Muirhead, dated 3 May 1911, arranging to meet 'before our interview with Walter'; letter from [Silvanus P. Thompson] to Lodge, dated 2 May 1911, advising Lodge about patents; letter from Farrer Porter & Co, Solicitors, to Oliver Lodge, dated 2 May 1911, about mistake in Birmingham Post report on legal proceedings; and copy (very faded) of letter from H. J. Muirhead to Oliver Lodge, dated 1 May 1911.
/2 Account of visit to Liverpool, May 1911. Lodge describes meetings with shipping companies about their use of wireless technology and the Marconi Company's monopoly.
/3 Memorandum from Oliver Lodge to L. B. & Co, written from the University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, dated 15 May 1911, about the next meeting of the Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate.
/4 Typescript copies of letters from Henry Muirhead to Oliver Lodge, dated 3 May 1911 to 8 May 1911. Muirhead discusses wireless business, patents and the Marconi Company.
/5 Agenda for meeting [of Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate] about wireless business, dated 10 May 1911.
/6 Typescript copy of letter from Henry J. Muirhead to Oliver Lodge, written from Fairfield, Hythe, Kent, dated 15 May 1911. Muirhead discusses how to proceed with wireless business.
/7 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to the Lodge-Muirhead Wireless Telegraphy Syndicate, dated 16 May 1911. Lodge sends information about his meeting with Mr Brookes of British Insulated about terms, licenses, and potential merger. He adds: 'It appears that the Helsby Wireless was started rather out of pique with Marconi [...]'.
/8 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Henry Muirhead, dated 17 May 1911. Lodge writes about his correspondence with Sir Martin Conway and discusses wireless patents and companies. With typescript summary of the position of the Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate in relation to wireless business; copy of letter from Henry Muirhead to Oliver Lodge, dated 16 May 1911, about the value of Marconi Company shares, the government's employment of Marconi Company, and possible mergers; and copy of letter from Martin Conway to Oliver Lodge, dated 16 May 1911, about a solicitor's proposal for assisting Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate.
/9 Copy of letter from P. C. C. Francis (of Francis and Johnson Solicitors) to Oliver Lodge, written from 19 Great Winchester Street, London, dated 29 May 1911. Francis advises Lodge about financing litigation.
/10 Letter from H. J. Muirhead to Messrs Brodie and Alick Lodge, written from Hillhurst, Caterham, Surrey, dated 26 May 1911. Muirhead writes that he is keen to further any scheme which would relieve his brother, Dr Muirhead, of business matters. With rough draft of letter from L. B. & Co to Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate.
/11 Supplement to the Illustrated Official Journal (Patents), Volume XXVIII, Report on the matter of Lodge's patent, 1911.
/12 Copy of Agreement between Lodge-Muirhead Wireless and General Telegraphy Syndicate, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated 1920.
/13 Printed pamphlet, 'Notes on Sir Oliver Lodge's Patent for Wireless Telegraphy' by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1911.
/14 Letter from H. J. Muirhead to Oliver Lodge, written from Hillhurst, Caterham, Surrey, dated 1 May 1911. Muirhead discusses the future of the Lodge-Muirhead Wireless Syndicate, writing that it may be necessary to fight for patent rights. |