letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.2001-02-328-8

Description

Letter to Col John Francis Richard Norman Maitland-Addison’s widow from an unidentified correspondent, Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, 11 Oct 1957. Correspondent encloses a typescript copy of a letter he had written to the Scientific Editor of The Times newspaper recording his lecture on the long range gun. Col Maitland-Addison had predicted the launching of satellites into space. From a collection of papers relating to the career of Col Maitland-Addison (1878-1954), Royal Artillery, 1915-1957.

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