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Sender: Evershed, John
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 3
Date(s): 27 Oct 1894 - 6 Feb 1895
Location: SC MS 391/8-10
Note: 1) Answers Smithells' criticisms of a paper by J E. 4 ff.
Photography of a spectrum attached. 2) Discusses Smithells'
criticisms of a draft paper by J E. 6 ff. Photograph of a
spectrum attached; paper later published in "Phil. Mag.", vol
39 (1895), pp 460-476. 3) Has repeated his experiments and
revised a paper as Smithells had suggested.
Sender: Frankland, Edward
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 2 Feb 1897
Location: SC MS 391/31
Note: Confirms his own views on flames which Smithells sought in
connection with a Royal Institution lecture.
Sender: Hartley, Walter Noel
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 7
Date(s): 3 Jul 1896 - 15 Feb 1897
Location: SC MS 391/25-29, 32-33
Note: 1) Flame spectra; comment on V B Lewes. 2) Sending offprints; proposed paper on C2N2 spectrum. 3) Theories on flame spectra. 4) Sending a note on CO spectrum. 5) Further about the CO flame spectrum. 6) His experiments on CO spectra. 2 ff. 7) Experiments and experimental methods on flame spectra. 2 ff.
Sender: Ingle, Harry
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Nov 1899
Location: SC MS 391/41
Note: Discuses views on flame spectra. 2 ff.
Sender: King, Walter
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Feb 1896
Location: SC MS 391/22
Note: Sending a copy of reprint of Professor Edward Frankland's
lecture. Typescript.
Sender: Macnair, Duncan Scott
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 Feb 1892
Location: SC MS 391/4
Note: Modification of Smithells' method of separating a bunsen flame;
diagram.
Sender: Taylor, Annie
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Oct 1895
Location: SC MS 391/18
Note: Questions Smithells about points in a recent lecture.
Sender: Teclu, Nicolae
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Jan 1892
Location: SC MS 391/3
Note: Thanks Smithells for a paper. Black edged paper; with modern
transcript.
Sender: Thomson, Jospeh John
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Jan 1897
Location: SC MS 391/30
Note: About the "candle" and CO spectra.
Sender: Thorpe, Thomas Edward
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 11
Date(s): 1 Feb 1887 - 13 May 1911
Location: SC MS 391/1-2, 15-17, 21, 34, 44-45, 56-57
Note: 1) A testimonial to Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe from his former
pupils. 2) Paper by Teclu on same field as Smithells is
researching in. 3) Requests opinion on enclosed proof (missing). 4) Thanks Smithells for criticism; colour of CO flame; luminosity of flames. 5) Supply of calcium carbide. 6) Advises Smithells not to pursue a controversy with V B Lewes. 7) Smithells' Royal Institution lecture. 8) Advice and help to place a paper which AS had written. 9) Suggests that AS's paper should be offered to the "Philosophical Magazine"; Royal Society. On black-edged paper headed with embossed royal arms, in official mourning for Queen Victoria. 10) Proposed article and guidance from Thorpe about it; a candidate whom AS has supposted. 11) Acknowledges receipt of
AS's article; problem of its title. MS.
Sender: Wastell, Wilfrid
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Mar 1894
Location: SC MS 391/6
Note: Has repeated one of Smithells' experiments at the Midland Institutue Conversazione.
Sender: Watts, William Marshall
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 3
Date(s): 13 Aug 1894 - 27 Feb 1895
Location: SC MS 391/7, 11-12
Note: 1) Identification of "candle-spectrum". Postcard; date and
address from postmark. 2) Acknowledges papers; flame spectra;
especially that of salt. 3) Acknowledges a tube of argon; its
spectrum; blue flame of salt; other points on flame spectra.
Typescript.