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This sub-section contains papers and correspondence relating to the acquisition by the Cambridge Philosophical Society of books, periodicals, maps etc, including donations books dating from 1851-1874. The donations books listed at CPS 9/2/3 record donations to the Society's Library and its Museum.

Miscellaneous letters to Joseph Larmor, some annotated in pencil with a note of the book in which they were found. Writers include:
H Baker, 1930;
Horace Brown, 1907;
Robert Ball, 1889;
A Gray, 1901;
A E H Love, 1899;
H Middleton, 1910;
A [?] Sommerfeld, 1899
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1917;
W E Wilson, 1907.

Letters to Joseph Larmor, 1903-29, from the following: Alice Birtwistle; H A Bumstead; C Chree; J C Graham; John Leathem; G D H Parker; J Sevin (in French); M Wilderman; and R Wright of Cambridge University Press.
Also a letter from Henry James at the Ordnance Map Office, Southampton, to G G Stokes, 20 October 1856.

‘Acknowledgements of ‘History’ and Letters of Congratulation on Sesquicentenary’. File contains letters of thanks for copies of Rupert Hall’s history of the Society and letters of congratulation on the sesquicentenary, chiefly from overseas institutions, including greetings telegrams and a formal address from the Director of the Library of Tartu State University.