| Description | /1 Letter from Silvanus Thompson [1851-1916, physicist and electrical engineer] to Oliver Lodge, written from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, dated 9 August 1915. Thompson writes at length about Lodge's book, 'The War and After'.
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Silvanus Thompson, written from Mariemont, Edgbaston, dated 12 August 1915. Lodge responds to Thompson's letter about his book 'The War and After'.
/3 Letter from John M. Le Sage, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph, to Oliver Lodge, dated 11 January 1916, requesting a statement on scientific training and industry. With typescript copy of statement, 'Science and Industry', by Oliver Lodge, University of Birmingham, 19 January 1916. With letter from Silvanus Thompson to Oliver Lodge, written from City & Guilds of London Insitute, Technical College, Finsbury, dated 21 January 1916, containing feedback on Lodge's statement and comments on patent law. With letter from John M. Le Sage, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph, to Oliver Lodge, dated 21 January 1916, acknowledging receipt of the statement. |