Clever Types - Scholars

Miss. Amy Fawcett

Miss Fawcett has admirably conducted the cataloguing my finds at the university museum during my absence in Egypt. As an epigraphologist, she is only surpassed by my own dear wife and when we are both abroad, she is surely the best in London. That said, I find it rather selfish of me to hold on to the both of them, thus, I recommend Miss Fawcett to you whole-heartedly. May I wish you all the best with your proposed excavations in Sumeria. I am sure Miss Fawcett will find cuneiform a welcome change from hieroglyphs. Letter of recommendation from Professor Flinders Petrie to Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, 1921

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley

...and I think it is fair to say that Sir Charles, the renowned British archaeologist whose excavation of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur (in modern Iraq) has greatly advanced our knowledge of ancient Mesopotamian civilization, was pleased to be back in England. His discovery of geological evidence of a great flood has suggested a possible correlation with the deluge described in Genesis and his upcoming lecture tour is guaranteed to raise still further debate. Speaking to him briefly at the The British Museum, this charming and unassuming gentlemen was looking forward to reexamining many of his finds recently imported into the country.. London Times , August 1924

Mr. Waylon Riley

Also this month, The British Library acquired an exceedingly rare 17th century English translation of the 1486 Malleus Maleficarum - 'The Hammer of the Witches', through Sotheby's the Auctioneers, for the sum of £6,600. Discovered by Mr. Waylon Riley, of Mandeville's Bookshop, Camden, it is a rare find indeed. Mr. Riley, proving himself something of a specialist in these matters, we are told plans to open a store of his own dealing with further articles of this nature and hopefully bringing them to the libraries attention. Clerks Literary Review, March 1912

Professor Edward Jacobs

Not long after Jacobs was made a Professor at Cambridge I attended a syposia at the University. I had the pleasure of visiting him in his chambers. I recall one particular evening, after I had presented a generalization of your light and quanta theory to the usual faces. We played poker and discussed particle spacing and theoretical temporal dynamics over gin and tonic. Jacobs will never know it, but those conversations that week were the catalyst for theorum for which I am now repeatedly acclaimed. He's a good man, underated, though some of his ideas can sometimes run to the speculativly fantastical. Private Letter to Max Planck from Albert Einstein, May 1922

Dr. Henry Lawrence

Following in the wake of his friend and Cambridge mentor, renouned psychologist and anthropologist William Halse Rivers, Doctor Lawrence has developed a singular approach to the medicine of the mind. Favouring prolonged analysis and confrontationa psycology to motivate patents he has had remarkable success with ex-servicemen previously diagnosed as suffering "anti-war complex", or those in a state of catatonia, through the use of literature and art as a medium of expression and a controvercial no noncence approach verging on the attitude of "just forget about it"... West Lancashire Medical Digest, 1921

Sgt. Richard "Chunky" Baxter

...and high praise was given to one member of the regiment in particular, Sargent Baxter, who's positive attitude in the face of adversity saw the the new tanks onto the battlefield against all odds. He and his men worked without sleep to roll out 18 new machines into the Somme in September 1916 in an effort to break the deadlock on the Western front. In a surprise attack the tanks had spectacular success. Without the solid northern British dedication and skill in their trade of men like Sargent Baxter and the engineers of The Royal Tank Corp. there would have been further delay and the loss of many more lives. Sometimes, it's the soldier we never see who are as much the true heroes as our pilots... Oficial Regimental History - Royal Tank Corp. 1917

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