File 1974 - Letters of 1974

195 letters paper

Letters to and from Derek Taunt. Pars has had items stolen from his room and he feels this is an inside job. Letter from old Jesuan Edward Schur. Letter of complaint to Tescos re the price of a tin of canned tomatoes! Pars went to Persia with student David Thompson. Letters to and from Bernie at the College. Ruggero Maria Santilli writes from the department of Physics at Boston University on a problem. Letters from Peter Robbins. Letter from Louise Rowan. Her son Stephen has been in Canada working with the Eskimos for the last ten years (Stephen used to handle Pars's financial affairs in the States). Several letters from Bruce Ponder. Postcard from Wenda Parkinson from Tobago. Pars was willing to help an undergrad in arrears without him knowing about it. Letter from R.K. Pierens at the University of Sydney, School of Chemistry. Thank you from David Woolton. Regular notes from Michael Waring. In one, Waring thanks Pars for a wonderful time in Covent Garden. Christmas letter from niece Alison Wood and another letter. Letters from student Alan Waugh. Pars often invited young men to plays or operas and then to sleep and eat at his place in Acton. Letter from Alan Weir who is writing from Massachusetts. Volume two of his book has come out (CUP). Letters from Charles Mason, a student who is a regular guest of Pars's. Also several from Nicholas Lyth. Christmas card from Roy and Jean Leipnik. Roy is working on "control theory". Notes from John Killen. Letters from Robbie Jennings. He is bitterly upset by what is happening in the College and the control that certain people exercise. Pars always wants to put Robbie's name up for various positions. This time he's put his name up for College Coucil. Letter from Michael Ingham. The Master's daughter Elizabeth thanks Pars for her pearl necklace. Letter from Gordon Hutchinson who unsuccessfully applied for a Peterhouse job. Philip Hall also writes re the proposal to admit women to Jesus. Philip sympathizes with the idea, yet he states, "Kings, Clare and Churchill ought to be fined a million pounds each for starting the rot and the money should go to Girton and Newnham who are likely to be the real sufferers". Thank yous from student Chris Hunt. Letters from Bobby Gittings. Gardner Smith also does not approve of what is happening to the College. Letters from Austin in the College. Letter from Isabel Evans (wife of Griffith who taught at Berkley). Their son George died of a heart attack in 1972 (He had been at Balliol) and then Griffith had a stroke followed by two more. He died shortly thereafter. Letter from Sheila Edmonds at Newnham. Several letters from friend and fellow Jesuan Denis Dyson in Stratford. It appears that Pars's house in Acton has been burgled yet again. It was agreat shock to Pars's sickly sister. Letters from Jean Cottrell. Letter to Cameron Wilson re decling standards in the College. It's all doom and gloom. Letter from Norman Costar. Letter from Keith Bantoft. His son Nicholas is now engaged to John Clegg's daughter Corinne. Bantoft is still in Rhodesia but later moves to South Africa. Letters from John Clegg follow. Letters from Pars's solicitors re the incinerator problem. Ernest Booth also writes. It appears the company was liquidated and it had no assets. Letter from sister Dora. Frank Bowman writes re his solution to a problem. Letters to and from Dominic who's just been made president of the Club. Also from Martin Seeley the sercretary. Letters from Bob and Helen Armstrong. Letter to his doctor re illness he picked up in India and Persia (gout, intenstinal problems).