Comprising a testimonial from the General Electric Company Ltd (GEC), 1935; correspondence with Ernest Rutherford about a post at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1936 (2); correspondence about the Warren Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, which John Randall held at Birmingham University, from 1937; correspondence about applications for other academic posts, 1940-2; correspondence and press cuttings about his appointment as Professor of Natural Philosophy at St Andrew's University, 1944; correspondence about his election as a fellow of the Royal Society, 1946; and correspondence about the award of the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, 1946.
Including correspondence with E. V. Appleton, 1940 (1); Lawrence Bragg, 1937-44 (11), Ralph Howard Fowler, 1937-42 (3), Nevill Mott, 1937-40 (5), Mark and Rosie Oliphant, 1937-46 (11), Arnold Reimann, 1937 (3), G. F. C. Searle, 1943 (2); and Arthur Mannering Tyndall, 1937 (3).