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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to G.A. Harding including a complete list of stars whose spectra are given as having the emission characteristic E, and which are in Gliese, in the Southern Hemisphere and not hitherto reported as flare stars.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to G.A. Harding regarding the reasons for the hold-ups in the programme of Olin Wilson being carried out by R.E. Wallis at the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to G.A. Harding requesting data on SR stars in Virgo for Zeki Aslan.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to G.A. Harding regarding WZ Hyades, which has no value of Delta S, and XX Hyades which has no S and a single plate velocity.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to G.A. Harding regarding the possibility of getting some high dispersion spectra of the brightest RR Lyrae stars from the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria.

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A list of stars for G.A. Harding.

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A short note by Richard Woolley stating that a new sequence has been sent to G.A. Harding.

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Notes by Richard Woolley on acquiring grating plates from G.A. Harding.

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An undated paper entitled 'On the Avoidance of Bad Seeing Conditions within Telescope Domes' by G.A. Harding, B. Mack, F.G. Smith and J.R. Stokoe, 8 pages, with two figures.

Scope and Contents Papers regarding the staffing structure, staff appointments and salary estimates at the Cape Observatory and the South African Astronomical Observatory at Sutherland. The papers include correspondence between G.A. Harding and M.W. Message of the Science Research Council concerning proposals for a joint venture in South Africa with the Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research; a draft copy of a report on 'South Africa Conditions of Employment Memoranda', dated July 1970; minutes of a...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and reports regarding the budget and staff complement of the South African Astronomical Observatory. There is material concerning proposals for staffing needs; the transfer of Cape staff; advertisements and applications for various posts; the budget for 1972-1973; the future of the Lyot heliograph and kinetheodolite, 1972; and the tapering fund of contributions to the South African Astronomical Observatory from the Science Research Council. The correspondence is largely...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and other papers regarding the Science Research Council's support of astronomy in South Africa, including the Cape Observatory and the Radcliffe Observatory. The papers include handwritten notes by George Harding on 'Astronomy in South Africa', 28 March 1968; the report of the Southern Hemisphere Review Committee on proposals to concentrate funding on the development of the Anglo-Australian Telescope; and a letter from A. Hunter to G. Harding concerning the aforementioned...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous personal correspondence and some related papers:Personal correspondence, including invitations to dinners and correspondence with R.L. Waterfield, 1970-1974.Correspondence with various individuals, comprised mainly of invitations to dinners and lectures, and invitations to overseas astronomers, 1960-1969.Correspondence with B.J. Harris of Perth, 1957-1960, and G.A. Harding of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1962-1973.Correspondence...

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A report by Jan Hers, Republic Observatory, Johannesburg, and G.A. Harding entitled 'Report on an Astronomical Site Survey in South Africa 1968-1970', dated May 1970, with a letter from Hers to F.J. Hewitt, 18 November 1971, giving comments on Harding's amendments to the report.

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Papers and photographs relating to spectroscopic observations of Omega Centauri. There are graphs of V against B-V and V-V against B-V, and a paper by G.A. Harding on a CH Star in Omega Centauri.