| Description | Manuscript. About his work in setting up a new engineering department at the South African College, Cape Town, asking Pearson his advice on posts in engineering or design in Great Britain, offering sympathy over the death of W F R Weldon, about being overlooked for a post in Birmingham and thanking Pearson for his support, on becoming a full member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the prosperity of the Department of Engineering in 1909, possible impact on higher education of the Union of South Africa, and a letter dated 1935 thanking Pearson for his teaching and assitance with Payne's career and informing he was appointed Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne on his retirement in 1932. |