Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of HAROLD DAVENPORT FRS; (1907 - 1969)

Hardy, one of the most distinguished British mathematicians of his day, was Sadleirian Professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge 1931-42. Although this did not coincide with Davenport's undergraduate period, he and Hardy were colleagues at Trinity during the 1930s and they collaborated on a second edition of `Hardy-Wright' (An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, by G.H. Hardy and E.M. Wright, 1938), see G.112, G.113; see G.351 for brief correspondence re 3rd edition.

Hardy's communications are letters and cards in his distinctive spiky handwriting, often with parentheses and balloons of afterthoughts, some in pencil and few dated other than by postmark.