| Description | /1 Copy of typescript letter to Mr Richards from Oliver Lodge, 20 July 1925. Lodge writes that he is dissatisfied with present systems of dusting and sweeping [?in his home], and advises Richards that a new electrical vacuum cleaner (the best known being the Hoover) would make for much more efficient cleaning. He suggests Richards look into the matter of upgrading present cleaning methods.
/2 Manuscript letter to Oliver Lodge from H. [Harold] Fillingham Williams, written from Bellfield, Ringwood, Hampshire, 7 December 1926. Williams replies to Lodge, thanking him for his suggestion. Williams's enquiry appears to have been about the electrical consumption of different lighting types.
/3 Copy of typescript letter from Oliver Lodge to Mr Williams, 8 December 1926. Lodge repleis to Williams, writing that his Ringwood firm appears to have the competence to carry out an installation without external aid. It appears that Williams might have asked Lodge for money, or suggested that the firm will ask an acquaintance of Lodge's for money, to fund an installation of some sort. |