Six files of approximately 900 letters from Sir Oliver Lodge or his secretary to Ben Davies with a number of ...,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Reference
- GB 210 BOX 3/1-6.
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Dates of Creation
- 1885-1941.
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Six files of approximately 900 letters from Sir Oliver Lodge or his secretary to Ben Davies with a number of copy replies concerning Sir Oliver's famous ether experiments, and experiments on electro-magnetic waves, photo-electricity, magnetic telegraph, etc. [cf. Sir Oliver Lodge, Past Years : An Autobiography (1931), Chaps. xiv-xvii]. Other subjects discussed include seances, spiritualism, publications and Russia. These letters have been arranged in chronological order, numbered, guarded and filed at NLW:. Box 3/1 1885-94, Box 3/2 1896-1900, Box 3/3 1901-4, Box 3/4 1905-8, Box 3/5 1909-24, Box 3/6 1925-41. Xerox copies of 10 letters from Ben Davies to Sir Oliver Lodge reporting the result of experiments with the ether machine, 1893-1896, and upon the discharge of electricity from various metals, [1894 x 1897]. The originals are held at the Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. (Lodge Papers, MS 3. 16 (6-8), MS 3. 17 (1- 6), MS 3. 19 (3)) The call number of the copies is NLW Facsimile 387.

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Preferred citation: BOX 3/1-6.

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Ben Davies Papers,BENIES

Three files of family correspondence comprising approximately 1,350 letters, including copy replies; written mainly by Ben Davies and his wife ...,BOX 1/1-3.

Three files of the general correspondence of Ben Davies comprising approximately 1,500 letters including 20 letters from Evan Pan Jones ...,BOX 2/1-3.

Six files of approximately 900 letters from Sir Oliver Lodge or his secretary to Ben Davies with a number of ...,BOX 3/1-6.

Nine letters and a postcard from Lady Lodge to Ben Davies and his wife,BOX 4/1.

File of press cuttings about Sir Oliver Lodge,BOX 4/2.

File of correspondence concerning Ben Davies' participation in a BBC radio programme to celebrate the centenary of the birth of ...,BOX 4/3.

Typescript draft of an unpublished textbook on physics by Sir Oliver Lodge divided into five sections, viz. heat mechanics, sound ...,BOX 4/4-8.

Illustrations drawn by Ben Davies and his daughter Gwen for an unpublished textbook on physics by Sir Oliver Lodge,BOX 4/9.

Illustrations for Sir Oliver Lodge's broadcast talks on the atom,BOX 4/10.

Diaries of Ben Davies containing brief domestic details and an almost daily resume of current political events often with trenchant ...,BOX 5/1-13.

Diaries of Ben Davies containing brief domestic details and an almost daily resume of current political events often with trenchant ...,BOX 6/1-20.

Pocket diaries, 1889, 1891-3, 1895, 1899, 1901-41, 1945-9 of Ben Davies containing details about meetings, appointments, work, etc,BOX 7/1-54.

Printed diaries, Y Llawlyfr Annibynol, apparently kept by Mrs. Hannah Davies, Ben Davies's mother, containing mainly details of funerals in ...,BOX 7/55-61.

Pocket notebooks of Ben Davies containing details of expenses, scientific notes, etc.BOX 7/62-81.

Notebooks containing notes from the Bible, notes of sermons heard, and notes on Ethics, Christian Science and the history of ...,BOX 7/82-6.

Notebook containing notes for articles,BOX 7/87.

Notebook labelled by Ben Davies 'War Sociology Church',BOX 7/88.

Notebooks and a folder containing a number of graphs and equations being attempts to reduce social and economic concepts to ...,BOX 7/89-92.

Notebook entitled 'Social Questions Original Rough Notes,BOX 7/93.

File of graphs drawn by Ben Davies of the distribution of wealth in Great Britain in 1881; the age distribution ...,BOX 7/94.

Bibliographies of books, articles, contributions to the press, etc., re Russia, Communism, Socialism, Nazism, etc,BOX 7/95-6.

'Laboratory Books' compiled by J. W. Clark, containing details of experiments conducted,BOX 8//1-2.

Sunday school exercises,BOX 8/1-2.

Notebooks labelled 'Original Notes' by Ben Davies comprising notes on engines, sound measurements, galvanometers, gases, integrators, telegraphy, etc,BOX 8/3-6.

College notebooks, on molecular physics, statics, dynamics, electricity, electro-statics, mechanics, heat, light, sound, etc,BOX 8/3-70.

Notebook containing details of experiments on the permeability of liquids,BOX 8/7.

Notebook containing details of experiments with the ether machine,BOX 8/8.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on photo-electricity,BOX 8/9-14.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on the induction of cables, cable telegraph, telegraphy, etc,BOX 10/1-17.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on electro-magnetic telegraph,BOX 11/1-4.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on wireless telegraphy,BOX 11/5-7.

Notebooks containing rough notes of 'All Experiments' conducted by Ben Davies,BOX 11/8-9.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on submarine telegraphy,BOX 11/10-13.

Notebook containing rough notes on observations on the 'line disturbance' at Ballycastle, Ireland,BOX 11/14.

Notebook concerning electrical measurements,BOX 11/15.

File of provisional specifications, mainly of inventions or designs re telegraphy patented by Sir Oliver Lodge and Messrs Muirhead & ...,BOX 12/1.

Two files of correspondence, including copy replies, between Ben Davies and Messrs Muirhead & Co. concerning the latter manufacturing the ...,BOX 12/2-3.

List of patent applications made by Walter Judd of the Eastern Telegraph Co., Ben Davies and others, 1902-1922, and provisional ...,BOX 12/4.

File of papers concerning experiments carried out at the laboratory of the Eastern Telegraph Co,BOX 13/1.

List of experiments conducted by Ben Davies at the laboratories of the Eastern Telegraph Co., with brief notes on some ...,BOX 13/2.

File of diagrams, equations, blueprints and other working papers re experiments undertaken by Ben Davies for the Eastern Telegraph Co ...,BOX 13/3-18.

File of draft and typescript reports, draft diagrams, blueprints and other working papers relating to experiments carried out for the ...,BOX 13/19.

Volume containing an account of experiments conducted at the Eastern Telegraph Co.'s research laboratory in 1911 on Dipper Currents and ...,BOX 13/20.

Observations of earth currents on the Eastern Telegraph Co.'s cables in Madras, St. Helena, Capetown, etc,BOX 13/21.

File of correspondence, including drafts, between Ben Davies and the Eastern Telegraph Co. concerning Morse Relay at Porthcurnow, Cornwall,BOX 14/1.

File of correspondence, including drafts, between Ben Davies and the Eastern Telegraph Co. re establishing Porthcurnow as a relay station ...,BOX 14/2.

Notebooks containing notes and diagrams re experiments conducted for the Admiralty on the detection of submarines,BOX 14/3-4.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on electricity, electro-statics and artificial currents],BOX 14/5-7.

Two notebooks and two files containing details of experiments on Loaded Cable and Spiral Load. [cf. Box 15/2],BOX 14/8-11.

File entitled 'Problems of Dynamo Magnifier Magneto Meter' containing graphs, equations, etc,BOX 14/12.

Two files containing details of experiments on Artificial Cables and Duplex Signalling, 1923-1927. Xerox copies of extracts from the records ...,BOX 14/13-14.

File of correspondence between Ben Davies and Messrs Musgrave & Co., blueprints, specifications, etc., relating to developing an improved car ...,BOX 15/1.

File of correspondence between Ben Davies and the Gutta Percha Co., Ltd., about Spiral Load Patent,BOX 15/2.

Five files of correspondence almost all between Ben Davies and John Hanley of Messrs Bibby & Sons Ltd, concerning various ...,BOX 15/3-7.

File of papers about Electro-Magnetic Field experiments,BOX 16/1.

Notebooks containing diagrams and details of various scientific instruments,BOX 16/2-4.

Notebooks containing bibliographies of scientific works,BOX 16/5-6.

Notebooks containing details about miscellaneous experiments,BOX 16/7-16.

Miscellaneous graphs, equations and other working papers. Glass negatives of photo-electric apparatus, laboratory, laboratory instruments including one of Sir Oliver ...,BOX 16/17.

Three files of correspondence, circulars, notices, bulletins, etc., concerning The Institution of Physics,BOX 17/1-3.

Prospectus and two letters from the Association of Scientific Workers,BOX 17/4.

File of newsletters, circulars, reports, etc., from The Institution of Electrical Engineers,BOX 17/5.

Two files of correspondence, circulars, agenda, etc., relating to The Physical Society,BOX 17/6-7.

Notebooks entitled S.P.R. [Society for Psychical Research] containing accounts of communications by mediums during seances including a seance attended by ...,BOX 17/8-10.

File of correspondence relating to alleged poltergeist activity in Aberystwyth, 1943, and about arranging for Aberystwyth parents to see a ...,BOX 17/12.

Four files of correspondence and papers concerning the Union of Democratic Control, an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist movement, whose main objectives were ...,BOX 18/1-4.

Two files of correspondence, reports, pamphlets, etc., about the Fellowship Reconciliation Committee. Most of the papers relate to the F.R.C.'s ...,BOX 18/5-6.

File of correspondence between Anna Makara from Budapest and the Davies family, and a few letters from her mother, the ...,BOX 18/7.

Folder of correspondence and papers relating to the Common Wealth movement,BOX 18/8.

Circulars and memoranda issued by the National Peace Council,BOX 18/9.

File of correspondence and papers labelled 'American Socialist Friends' by Ben Davies; almost all the correspondence is between himself and ...,BOX 18/10.

Folder of press cuttings concerning the 1921 General Election in Cardiganshire,BOX 19/1.

Files of correspondence, including copy replies, invoices, catalogues, etc., re purchasing and installing an x-ray machine and other electrical appliances ...,BOX 19/2-5.

Folder of press cuttings concerning the dismissal of Dr. D. J. Davies from his post at Aberystwyth County School,BOX 19/6.

File of press cuttings mainly of Aberystwyth interest,BOX 19/7.

File of correspondence, including copy replies, invoices, catalogues, etc., relating to purchasing equipment to assist the deaf at Tabernacl Chapel ...,BOX 19/8.

Notebook containing lists of books lent by Ben Davies, a list of persons to whom he presented copies of his ...,BOX 20/1.

MS and typescript draft of his book First Principles of Material Well Being (1917) and correspondence and reviews about the ...,BOX 20/2.

Memorandum of an agreement between Ben Davies and the Swathmore Press Ltd re publishing Forces in Peace and War,BOX 20/3.

MS and typescript drafts of an article by Ben Davies entitled 'On the Detection of Added Water in Milk' and ...,BOX 20/4.

Typescript draft of an unpublished work entitled The Industro-Financial Chaos And The Way Out and correspondence about finding a publisher ...,BOX 20/5.

Typescript drafts, carbon copies and corrected proofs of his The New Social Order,BOX 20/6.

List of persons to whom Ben Davies sent copies of The New Social Order and correspondence re the same,BOX 20/7.

Typescript drafts of an unpublished work entitled The Fundamental Ideas of Society: The Soviet Union and the West,BOX 20/8-12.

MS and typescript drafts and final texts of lectures and articles for the press on diverse subjects including Wireless as ...,BOX 21/1-8.

File of notes entitled 'Original Notes concerning the Christian Principles and those of Science and their application to Sociology'. Gaslight ...,BOX 21/9.

Bound volumes of press cuttings of articles written by Ben Davies on scientific matters including a series of articles in ...,BOX 22/1-3.

Bound volumes of press cuttings containing mainly a series of articles written by Ben Davies for Cwrs y Byd, and ...,BOX 22/4-5.

Bound volume of press cuttings containing mainly articles written by Ben Davies, in both Welsh and English, on a variety ...,BOX 22/6-8.

Bound volume of press cuttings containing articles written by Ben Davies on individuals and obituaries, 1900-40 (Vol. numbered 6 and ...,BOX 22/9.

Two files and a volume of press cuttings contributed by Ben Davies to the Cambrian News about international politics especially ...,BOX 23/1-3.

Notes and press cuttings concerning the 1904 Revival in Wales,BOX 23/4.

Folder of press cuttings re Henry Ford, 1922, Aldous Huxley, 1937, Emanuel Swedenborg, 1938, and Lord Rutherford, 1950,BOX 23/5.

Two albums of press cuttings entitled 'World Strife' , dealing mainly with relations between Russia and Europe,BOX 23/6-7.

Scrapbook of press cuttings about Japan, China, Abyssynia, League of Nations Covenant, etc,BOX 23/8.

Scrapbook of maps (mainly from newspapers) of the campaigns fought in the Spanish Civil War, and the war fronts in ...,BOX 23/9.

Scrapbook of press cuttings entitled 'Sociology: The Struggle for a Better World and the opposition to it', containing a good ...,BOX 23/10.

Scrapbook of press cuttings entitled 'Regressive Acts: Regressive and Old World Views' mainly anti-Russian or anti-Communist pieces,BOX 23/11.

Box file of press cuttings arranged alphabetically by subject: economics, sociology, religion, etc,BOX 23/12.

Runs of the following publications most of which have been annotated by Ben Davies: 1 A monthly publication, War and ...,BOX 24/1-9.

A series of pamphlets bearing the general title of Papers in War Time concerned mainly with Christian ethics and the ...,BOX 25/1.

Bundle of pamphlets published by the Union of Democratic Control re the First World War and especially about ways to ...,BOX 25/2.

Bundle of miscellaneous pamphlets about the First World War labelled by Ben Davies as 'Progressive Papers'. Similar in contents to ...,BOX 25/3.

Bundle of pamphlets mainly about The League of Nations,BOX 25/4.

Bundle of booklets published by the Union of Democratic Control, e.g. Patriotism Limited An Exposure of the War Machine; Eastern ...,BOX 25/5.

Series of Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs,BOX 25/6.

Bundle of pamphlets about the Spanish Civil War,BOX 25/7.

Two pamphlets on British Fascism,BOX 25/8.

Bundle of pamphlets published by the Russia Today Society: e.g. Soviet Youth Organizations, 1943, Who's Who In The Red Army ...,BOX 25/9.

Bundle of booklets published by Key Books: e.g. Country With a Plan A Key to the Soviet Union, [1943]; Ireland ...,BOX 25/10.

Miscellaneous pamphlets including Wales and The League [of Nations],BOX 25/11.

Offprints of scientific articles; advance proofs of articles that afterwards appeared in the journals of the various scientific societies which ...,BOX 26.

File of 81 letters addressed to Megan Davies including 6 letters from Evan Pan Jones, 1897-8 (National Land League rally) ...,BOX 27/1.

File of 31 letters to Gwen Davies including 2 letters from Samuel J. Evans, 1923, 1928; 2 letters from Professor ...,BOX 27/2.

School report of Gwen Davies and school notebooks,BOX 27/3.

File of correspondence, invoices, etc., about furnishing and repairing Ty Tringad, Penparcau, Aberystwyth, and relating to rates, telephone, insurance, etc ...,BOX 27/5.

File of papers relating to the domestic expenses of the Davies family,BOX 27/6.

File of correspondence, invoices, etc., about furnishing and repairing 6 South Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth, and relating to rates, telephone ...,BOX 27/7-8.

Memoranda about repairs and costs to 6 South Marine Terrace following damages caused by three sea-mine explosions in 1941, 1942 ...,BOX 27/9.

Bundle of invoices, receipts, etc., for coal, telephone charges, decorating, etc.,,BOX 27/10.

In Memoriam cards of friends and relatives of the Davies family,BOX 27/11.

Scrapbook containing press cuttings relating to Ben Davies's work together with cuttings and programmes concerning the musical career of Megan ...,BOX 27/12.

Bundle of papers about spiritualism including accounts of communications by a Liverpool medium and correspondence with the same concerning the ...,BOX17/11.

File of correspondence re search for houses to rent or purchase for the Davies family,Box27/4.