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Sender: Ramsay, William
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 31 Dec 1901
Location: SC MS L.169/4
Note: Inviting Smithells to dine. MS.
Sender: Ramsay, William
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 15
Date(s): 14 Aug [1890] - 22 Nov 1914
Location: SC MS 416/50, 126, 128, 162, 171, 179, 182, 186, 193, 213, 220,
222, 235, 244, 252
Note: 1) Accepts AS's offer of hospitality and to meet F.W. Ostwald at Leeds. MS. 2 ff. Date inferred from context. 2) Acknowledges receipt of a tube; his future courses. MS. Postcard. 3) Acknowledges a recommendation from AS; "metargon" (neon ?). MS. Postcard. 4) Acknowledges a letter. MS. Postcard in Latin; part of date from postmark. 5) Agrees to an unspecified arrangement; returning from holiday in Switzerland. MS. Postcard; damaged. 6) Agrees to act as external examiner at Leeds. MS. 2 ff. 7) Arrangements to visit Leeds as external examiner. MS. 2 ff. 8) External examining; his holiday. MS. 2 ff. 9) Arrangement to come to Leeds; visit to Edward VII at Windsor. MS. 2 ff. 10) Chemical Society and the decimal system. MS. 11) On an Indian scientific association proposed by M.A.R. Paniker. MS. 2 ff. 12) Report from M.W. Travers about the foundation of the Indian Scientific Association; Ramsay's views on Indian scientists. MS. 2 ff. 13) Rumour that AS
might succeed N. Boddington as Vice-chancellor at Leeds; possible successors to AS in chair of chemistry. MS. 2 ff. 14) Declines to interrupt his retirement; advice to AS on going to India. MS. 2 ff. On mourning paper. 15) Proposal that students' practical work be devoted to making chemicals for the war effort. MS. 2 ff.