| Description | Letters with note identifying correspondent as H. Mackay.
/1 Letter from H. Mackay to Oliver Lodge, written from Lansdowne House, Devizes, Wiltshire, dated 20 October 1933. Mackay asks whether the Rector of Devizes is right to claim that Lodge is indifferent to the theory of evolution 'and quite prepared to give it up'.
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to H. Mackay, dated 21 October 1933. Lodge refutes the claim that he is willing to 'give up' the theory of evolution.
/3 Letter from A. H. T. Clarke (Rector of Devizes) to Oliver Lodge, written from The Rectory, Devizes, dated 26 October 1933. Clarke justifies his claim that Lodge is not committed to the theory of evolution, with reference to Lodge's publications and previous correspondence.
/4 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to A. H. T. Clarke, dated 28 October 1933. Some text is missing due to a tear in the page. Lodge writes that Darwin's work may contain some mistakes but this, in his view, does not undermine the theory of evolution. |