| Description | Correspondence from R. A. Sampson with note on envelope identifying the correspondent (possibly written in Oliver Lodge's hand).
/1 Letter from R. A. Sampson to Oliver Lodge, written from the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, dated 17 December 1919. Sampson writes that relativitists may find it difficult to accept a positive result, which would 'identify a past position at a future time and therefore give us absolute direction, in other words a fixed aether'. He adds that he learnt mechanics as a boy from Lodge's book.
/2 Letter from R. A. Sampson to Oliver Lodge, written from the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, dated 15 June 1920. Sampson writes that his article will appear in the Philosophical Magazine and his Halley Lecture is to be published by the Clarendon Press. He gives his opinion on Einstein's work.
/3 Letter from R. A. Sampson to Oliver Lodge, written from the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, dated 28 December 1920. Sampson thanks Lodge for the copy of 'Ether of Space'. He writes about the difference between the true times and the observed times of eclipses. |