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MVW observes that this is 'the last survivor of my undergraduate notebooks'.

Includes MS calculations showing the possibility of receiving radar echoes from the Moon, 1942; paper on 'Passive reflectors', 17 Nov. 1943; 'Note on scattering power of aircraft', 1942; letter to Sir Edward Appleton, 16 May 1945. With mounted photograph of the Lys Helig, a launch used for radar experiments at Llandudno, n.d.

Includes copies of V. A. Wilkes, History of the mission at Darlaston, 1925; Abstract of Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887 with special rules for the South Staffordshire District; memorandum on the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906; Special Rules for the conduct and guidance of persons acting in the management of collieries … in the South Staffordshire district, under the Coal Mines Inspection Act of 1855; photograph of participants in the South Staffordshire Mining Schools' 1906 excursion; certificate issued to George Alban Wilkes by the Board of Guardians of the Walsall Union, Staffordshire, appointing him Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Darlaston District, 29 Aug. 1862.

Including MS and TS correspondence with G. Collins; Messrs Kerridge and Messrs Pitt, Allebone and Dewey, both of Cambridge, Building Contractors; The Superintendent, Army Operational Research Group, West Byfleet; D. C. Martin, the Royal Society; various St John's College and May Ball officers, among them J. Wordie, G. Daniel, J. S. Boys Smith and G. Gwilt; Ilse and Julius ?Bartels; officers of the Constitutional Club, WC2; Ministry of Food; C. O. Stanley, chairman of Pye Ltd, Cambridge; W. S. Elliott; A. J. Woolard (about a rabbit); Messrs James Finlay, brokers; Bjorn Lundquist; J. Latham and J. C. Gridley, National Coal Board; the manager of the Mitre Hotel, Oxford; Major D. F. Bayley Pike; the Players Theatre, WC2; Wellington Stores, Manchester; N. F. Bird, the Old Edwardian Club, Stourbridge; Harold Stanesby, Engineer-in-Chief's Office; C. W. Oatley, CU Department of Engineering; R. L. Smith-Rose, National Physical Laboratory; H. N. V. Temperley, Elsa Shelley, W. S. Elliott, Delanium Ltd; B. W. Hodlin, TRE Great Malvern; David Rees; W. F. Cairns; R. A. Littleton and other members of the Kapitza Club; L. J. Comrie, the Scientific Computing Service; the Post Office, regulating possession and use of wireless transmitting devices; W. W. Graves, Cambridge University Registrary, asking MVW to sign the register on his appointment as a temporary University Lecturer in Mathematics. Also papers including 'Terms of subscription to The Eagle', 1947; notices of dining and lunching privileges, Sep. 1945, Aug. 1946, 1947 and 1948, signed by G. E. Briggs and Glyn Daniel as Steward of St John's College; notice of appointment of a College Butler, 28 Jan. 1947; welcoming material to new corporate members extended by the Institution of Electrical Engineers; Board of Trade application form for furniture and household furnishings.

Includes correspondence with D. H. Sadler, RGO; E. T. Goodwin, National Physical Laboratory; Sir William Hodge; A. E. Western. Papers include 'The future of mathematical tables' by MVW; 'On the future of mathematical tables' by F. W. J. Oliver; Table-making and automatic computers' by J. C. P. Miller; 'Report to the council of the London Mathematical Society as to the Cunningham Trust for publication' by A. E. Western.