| Title: | [Letter] 1915 September 21, Mariemont, Edgbaston [to] Sadler / Oliver Lodge. |
| Personal Author: | Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940. |
| Date: | 1915 September 21. |
| Extent: | [1] leaf. |
| General Note: | The letter is written on letterhead for Mariemont, Edgbaston which is in Birmingham, England where Lodge was associated with the university. |
| Abstract: | Lodge thanks Sadler for writing and enquires whether Bragg has lost his son, saying he hesitates to write to him. He closes by reflecting that "Its[sic] an awful waste sending [sons]... against machines." A believer in spiritualism like many others of his time, Lodge believed he had a premonition of the death of his youngest son Raymond, who was killed at Flanders in the same year this letter was written; he believed he had communicated with his son, and wrote about the experience in Raymond_(1916). Lodge was a physicist who taught at the University College, Liverpool from 1881-1900; after that he became a Principal at the University of Birmingham where he was at the time this letter was written and until 1919. Lodge also served as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1913-1914), and his works include texts on atomic structure, radio, electricity, and the ether of space. The Bragg referred to in this letter was Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942), a physicist who received the Nobel Prize (with his son William Lawrence) for their work on x-rays and crystal structure. He was the director of the Royal Institution and served as President of the Royal Society from 1935-1940. |
| Personal Subject: | Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940--Correspondence. |
| Subject: | World War, 1914-1918. |
| Recipient: | Sadler. |
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