Janus: Papers and correspondence of Sir Harold Jeffreys

St John's Library/Jeffreys contains:
A1-A226	Biographical Papers
B1-B316	Research
C1-C35	Lectures
D1-D404	Publications
E1-E20	Societies and Organisations
F1-F25	Visits and Conferences
G1-G190	Correspondence
H1-H219	Non Textual Material

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Papers and correspondence of Sir Harold Jeffreys

Title	Visits and Conferences
Reference	F1-F25
Covering Dates	1950–1982
Extent and Medium	paper

Content and context

Visits and conferences, is slight. It includes a little material for visits to the USA in 1950-1951, 1964, 1967 and 1972 and Singapore and Japan in 1971. Best documented, though still very sparsely, is the world trip which Jeffreys and Lady Jeffreys made in 1959 including New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and India. There is a good photographic record of many visits in Section H

St John's Library/Jeffreys/F1-F25 contains:

F1-F4

Visit to the USA. 'People whom B & H have met in USA 1950-1 (compiled by my aunt Bertha Blaxley BJ)'. Contents of envelope so inscribed by Lady Jeffreys divided into four for ease of references. Alphabetical sequence of notes on people met by the Jeffreys with dates of meeting.
paper.

1950–1951

F5-F13

Visit to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and India.
paper.

1959

F14

Visit to Columbia University, New York, 1964. Correspondence and papers re award and arrangements.Jeffreys was awarded a National Science Foundation Senior Foreign Scientist Fellowship for a period of five months at Columbia.
paper.

1963–1964

F15

Visit to Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, January-May 1967. Correspondence and papers re arrangements, visa, finances, etc.
paper.

1966–1967

F16-F19

Visit to Singapore and Japan, May-June 1971.
paper.

1971

F20, F21

Visit to North America. Contents of envelope inscribed by Lady Jeffreys 'Banff - Vancouver - Berkeley': correspondence re arrangements, etc. Jeffreys visited Banff, Canada, to attend a Symposium on Geophysical Theory and Computers.
2 folders; paper.

1972

F22, F23

Visit to Uppsala, Sweden. Brief correspondence, programme, menus, etc. Sir Harold and Lady Jeffreys visited Uppsala on the occasion of the university's 500th anniversary celebrations. Jeffreys received an honorary degree as part of the ceremonies.
2 folders; paper.

1977

F23A

Typescript letter signed from E.M. Gaposchkin, Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge Mass., to Jeffreys. Inviting Jeffreys to the Center.
1p; paper.

1 Apr. 1977

F24, F25

Institute of Statisticians, Practical Bayesian Statistics Conference, Cambridge, 21-24 July 1982. Programme, conference information, 3 photographic slides. Jeffreys was invited to the conference dinner at St John's College.
2 folders; papers, photographs.

1982