Royal Aeronautical Society Historic Letters Collection

This material is held atNational Aerospace Library

Reference
- GB 398 raesl
Dates of Creation
- 1866 - 1950
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 47 files

Scope and Content

A collection of historical letters from key figures in aeronautics both in the UK and further afield. The collection primarily contains letters to or from senior members of the Royal Aeronautical Society and its predecessor, the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.

The collection was compiled for an unpublished history of the Royal Aeronautical Society by J. Lawrence Pritchard. Additional letters were added to the collection by AWL Naylor.

The collection including material from the archives of:

The Royal Aeronautical Society
Major BFS Baden-Powell
Griffiths Brewer
Alec Ogilvie

Access Information

Open for consultation.

Archive Record|Table of contents

Royal Aeronautical Society Historic Letters Collectionraesl

Correspondence with, and relating to, Wilbur, Orville and Katharine Wrightraesl/1

Correspondence with W. H. Dines, E. S. Bruce, E. P. Frost, J. D. Fullerton and othersraesl/2

Correspondence with and relating to Octave Chanute & Samuel Langleyraesl/3

Correspondence with and relating to Lawrence Hargrave, William A Eddy, Herbert F. Lloyd, Thomas Moy and Henry Coxwellraesl/4

Correspondence with J. W. Dunne, A. V. Roe, A. D. Carden, F. A. Barton, Jose Weiss, G. H. Bryan, Lord Rayleigh, John Bacon and othersraesl/5

Correspondence files of the Secretary of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain and others.raesl/6

Correspondence with and relating to Patrick Alexander, Sir Frederick Handley Page, G. L. Davidson and S. H. Hollandsraesl/7

Correspondence with and relating to Thomas H. Blakesley, R. F. Moore, John Moore-Brabazon, Lord Brabazon of Tara, Dr L. Prandl, V. E. Johnson, W. R. Turnbull, T. O'Brian Hubbard, Reginald M. Balston and others.raesl/8

Correspondence with and relating to Samuel. F. Cody, Alec Ogilvie, Georges Berthenson, H. C. Vogt, G. P. Deverall Saul, John Bernard Seely and others.raesl/9

Correspondence with and relating to Santos Dumont, Gustav Lilienthal, J. Simmons, William H. Le Fevre, George F. Fitzgerald, Harold Sadler, H. S. Helle-Shaw, William J. S. Lockyer, E. M. Maitland, Percival Spencer, Ernest Shackleton and Captain R. F. Scottraesl/10

Correspondence with and relating to F. W. Lanchesterraesl/11

Correspondence with and relating to Samuel F. Cody, A. F. Zahn, A. L. Rotch, James Glaisher, Sir Hiram Maxim, Horatio Phillips and others.raesl/12

Correspondence with and relating to Lord Kelvin, C. G. Grey, William Cochrane, J. K. Smythies, C. C. Turner, May Harbord, R. P. Hearne, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Claude Grahame-White, A. D. Maclean, T. W. K. Clarke, Lady Mary Bailey, T. I. Blanchard, T. W. Pilcher, H. W. L. Moeddebeck, Charles S. Rolls, E. V. Hammond, Alan H Burgoyne, Commission Permanente Internationale d'Aeronautique, V. Straus Frank and othersraesl/13

Correspondence with and relating to J. C. Hunsaker, W. O. Manning, Mervyn O'Gorman, B. G. Cooper, A. P. Thurston, F. Vivian Thompson, C. R. Fairey, E. Caesar Hawkins on the Association for Promoting Flight, R. M. Clarkson on the elimination of the name de Havilland from British aviation, and from others.raesl/14

Correspondence relating to the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain's Wings Committee and Inventors' Proposals Committeeraesl/15

Letters and other material relating to aeronauitical activities of Ernest Pitmanraesl/16

Correspondence with C. Alma Baker, Captain F. L. M. Boothby, A. M. Bourke, Sir Charles Bright, The Royal Meteorological Society and Sir Walter Raleigh, together with material relating to bird flight.raesl/17

Correspondence with Robert Kronfeld, A. E. Turner, Sir R. M. Ruck, W. R. D. Shaw, E. F. Spanner, George Holt Thomas, Sir Henry Tizard and Lord Trenchard.raesl/18

Correspondence with Ross Smith, Fred T. Jane, E. Meos, Charles Gibbs-Smith, Sire Geoffrey de Havilland, D. Haylock, Thomas J. Sowter, Henry Bessemer, W. Windham, Philip Brannon and others, together with letters between Charles Gibbs-Smith and A. V. Roeraesl/19

Correspondence from Charles A. Lindbergh, I. I. Sikorsky, and Prof D. Riabouchinsky, together with material relating to the career of Captain Eardley H. Lawfor.raesl/20

Correspondence from Captain J. Laurence Pritchard, Lord Ventry, Sir Frank Whittle and others.raesl/21

Correspondence relating to two members of the Royal Aeronautical Society interned during World War II: Dr G. V. Lachmann and A. R. Weylraesl/22

Correspondence relating to Lady Heath, Sir Sefton Brancker, Bert Hinkler, J. S. Fairfax, Sir Alan Cobham and Dr Theodore von Karmanraesl/23

Correspondence relating to Florence Barwood, Dr A. M. Ballantyne, Joan Bradbrooke and J. E. Hodgsonraesl/24