Series 5 - University College Reading, University of Reading


Date Range1910 - 1983
ProvenanceJoan Duffield
Description

Correspondence, memoranda, address, certificates, notes, diagrams, reports, photographs.


Inventory Listing

5-1 University College Reading: appointment to Chair of Physics and related correspondence

Three letters from W. M. Childs, The Principal, re appointment and housing; one from R. L. Pearson; one from F. H. Wright, Registrar, 1910, 1912.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1910 - 1912    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-1 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-2 Concerning the University Constitution

Formal letters and memoranda concerned with dissenting opinion expressed by a minority of six professors including Duffield; pamphlet entitled 'An Appeal Against the Form of Constitution...'; memoranda and letters from W. M. Childs; press cuttings; copies of letters from Sir J. Larmor, Sir W. Raleigh, Sir H. Jones, original of letter to Duffield from Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1912-1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1912 - 1915    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-2 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-3 'A Factor in Imperial Development'

Address delivered by Duffield at Reading, 10 May 1913.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 10 May 1913    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-3 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-4 War service documents

Certificate of national registration, documents re enlistment, letter from Duffield to Major Egginton, 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1915    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-4 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-5 War work

Correspondence, notes, memoranda concerning the possible work towards the war effort in science departments, the particular uses to which their equipment and staff might be put; correspondence re munitions work, chemistry graduates, June-July 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range June 1915 - July 1915    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-5 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-6 Acceptances of war work

Letters volunteering services to do munitions work in College, July 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range July 1915    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-6 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-7 Munitions correspondence

Memorandum from Duffield discussing arrangements for munitions work, related correspondence, formal letter from Duffield to Rt. Hon. Lloyd George offering and outlining services, July - February 1916.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range July 1915 - February 1916    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-7 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-8 Letter from H. Maryon to Duffield

Re lathes, 27 September 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 27 September 1915    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-8 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-9 Telephone Portable "D" Mk III

Diagram of connections of telephone, and covering letter from R. L. Pearson, 28 October 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 28 October 1915    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-9 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-10 War Office

Correspondence with the War Office - Sir Alfred Keogh, Colonel Stanistreet - re serum supply for Army, November 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range November 1915    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-10 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-11 'Report Concerning the Proposed Preparation of Anti-Tetanus Serum at University College, Reading', By R. S. Williams

Typescript and related correspondence, November 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range November 1915    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-11 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-12 Equipment for munitions work

Correspondence and invoices from Holbrook & Sons for various machinery, such as lathes and saws, November 1915.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range November 1915    Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-12 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-13 Royal Society census of scientific and technical workers

Formal letter from the Royal Society asking for a list of suitably trained men, census card and covering letter from Duffield, January 1916.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range January 1916    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-13 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-14 War work, Admiralty

Copy of war service register form completed by Duffield; correspondence (including Duffield, Sir Francis Hopwood, Sir Arthur May, Henry Bassett, P. W. Hewitt, R. Stenhouse Williams) re manufacture of drugs at Reading chemical laboratories, 1915, January 1916.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1915 - January 1916    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-14 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-15 Personal correspondence associated with University College, Reading

Letter to Mrs. Childs from H. Sclater thanking her for hospital work; letters to Duffield from R. Pearson, F. Haghoe, F. G. Kydd, Muirhead Collins, J. Burgess; and from Duffield to Ken Duffield, and photograph of same, 1918-1919, 1925.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1918 - 1925    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-15 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-16 Leaving Reading

Correspondence from friends and relatives expressing congratulations on new appointment and farewell; photograph, 1923.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1923    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-16 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-17 Farewell party gift illuminated

Formal congratulations by colleagues from Reading in the form of a small booklet, 15 March 1924.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 15 March 1924    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-17 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-18 Duffield Exhibition, Reading College Library

Correspondence relating to the Duffield Exhibition awarded annually to a student at Reading, [1925] 1930-1938, 1947.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1925 - 1947    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-18 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-19 History of the University of Reading

Press cutting, 'University for Reading', The Reading Standard, 5 June 1925; photocopied extract from Making a University by W. M. Childs, and from The University of Reading by J. C. Holt; chronology of events relating to university buildings; photocopied notes by J. G. Jenkin concerning materials re Duffield at Reading (see 1/14), 1925, [1933], [1966], 1977, 1983.

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range 1925 - 1983    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-19 Box Number 8 Series 5
5-20 Royal Flying Corps

Photographs: one of Duffield alone, two with Mrs. Duffield and friends, several with other men in uniform, n. d. [c. 1916-1918].

Creator Joan Duffield
Date range c. 1916 - c. 1918    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 5-20 Box Number 8 Series 5

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, April 2004
With support from Ian Potter Foundation, Bank of Tokyo (Australia) Ltd and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Gavan McCarthy and Howard Sankey
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Updated 8 November 2007
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