File 1939 - Letters of 1939

26 letters paper

Letter from Oscar Blobel regarding the rise of Nazism in Austria (including a propaganda pamphlet), Alan (Weir?) asks Pars if he would like to replace him as the Secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Letter from G.S. Le Beau from Queen Mary College. Letter from G.C. Steward from Hull University College. Letter from Cambridge University Joint Recruiting Board thanking Pars for his help. Letter from H. Thirkill at Clare and G.T. Bennett at Emmanuel. Letter from Jack Percival (see previous year also) who mentions the possibility of being drafted. Letter from Maths lab on Free School Lane regarding Pars's request for a senior post (working on mathematical problems for the government). Oliver Lawn, a pupil of Pars's and a wrangler, thanks Pars for all of his help and the weekend they had before the Tripos. Lawn later gets a job at Bletchley during the war. Letters from Pars's mother. Letter from A.E. Ingham in France who discusses what is happening in mathematics in France. Letter from Derek Taunt who is working on the principles of external ballistics. Letters from his friend and solicitor Ernest Booth (they were at Latymer together). Pars is involved in a dispute with his neighbors regarding a fence at 3 Buxton Gardens in Acton. Letters from the Henley Royal Regatta on the rules of membership. Pamphlets and a letter from Philips radio department who are trying to discourage Pars from fixing his old radio and replacing it with a newer model instead.