LODGE OLIVER: (1851-1940)

LODGE OLIVER: (1851-1940) British physicist involved in the development of radio. A.L.S., Oliver Lodge, two pages (written to the first and final sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Birmingham, 1st February 1915, to Ernest Marshall, on the printed stationery of The University. Lodge states that his recent speech to the Workers´ Educational Association on the War has ´been briefly reported everywhere´ and that he doubts if there is anything worth sending from the Birmingham papers, further remarking ´ I wrote an article however which appears in "The North American Review" for January, and perhaps you will find that serves your purpose´. The letter has at one stage been irregularly torn horizontally through the centre into two halves and since been rejoined somewhat crudely with sellotape, only very slightly affecting the text but not the signature. With some further staining, creasing and other minor faults. Only FR