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Letter from Willie Sucksmith, on an unnamed paper to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/69/305

Date: 29 August 1946

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No form was enclosed in his letter and he is unable to answer the questions from memory. He has no doubt that he regarded the paper as satisfactory in every way and it did not require alteration.

Endorsed on recto as received 31 August 1946.

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RR/69/305
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29 August 1946
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Willie Sucksmith

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Willie Sucksmith, Letter from Willie Sucksmith, on an unnamed paper to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 29 August 1946, RR/69/305, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_305/letter-from-willie-sucksmith-on-an-unnamed-paper-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 10 July 2026

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