- Manchester Archives and Local Studies: MS F 925WAI
- Manchester Archives and Local Studies: MS F 925WAI
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Arrangements for visit from Poulton and his daughter. Fred Birch's address in Brazil.
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Enclosing a paper (not present) on glacial valleys sent by a young man from Middlesborough; death and funeral of Mr Weston; Fred Birch arrived at Minas Geraes; struggling with temperatures and canals of Mars (for Is Mars Habitable?, published Dec 1907), has written to mathematicians Sharpe?, Fisher, Barrett and Poynting on the subject; suffering from asthma, thinks diet the cause; Violet to visit.
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An interesting press cutting on Lowell and Mars sent by William; enclosing a cutting (not present) about Kipling; Prof Poynting to reply to Lowell's mathematical paper; ARW's book (presumably Is Mars Habitable?) finished, chapter on temperature of Mars sent to Poynting for comment, MS to go to Macmillan; possibility of mean temperature of planets being affected by rate of rotation, Osmond Fisher's opinion differs from ARW's, Stefan's Law.
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Sending William's clothes; MS of Mars book (Is Mars Habitable?) sent to Macmillan's after extensive revision and correction, asks William to read proofs, Prof Poynting to read proofs of new chapter.