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Correspondence from Sir Ambrose Fleming to Edward Appleton, 1942, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.40

Scope and Contents

Correspondence from J.A. Fleming (Sir Ambrose Fleming) to Edward Appleton. The material includes an autograph letter from Fleming (then aged 92), 1942, with reminiscences of Clerk Maxwell, etc., press obituaries of Fleming, dated 1945, manuscript notes by Appleton for an obituary he was asked to prepare for St. John' s College, Cambridge, and correspondence arising, and a 36 page typescript document, 'Recollections of Sir John Ambrose Fleming' by Arthur Blok, 22 May 1945, apparently not published elsewhere.

Dates

  • Creation: 1942, 1945

Creator

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Full Extent

From the Fonds: 100 boxes

Full Extent

From the Fonds: 14 linear metres

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

See also Coll-37/D. 25

Genre / Form

Topical

Repository Details

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