Kingslake, Rudolf and Hilda Conrady: Series FC

Title: KINGSLAKE PAPERS
Date range: 1903-2003
Location: D.333
Size: 27 boxes

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Dates written thus: DDMonYY are 20th century. Others are DDMon18YY or DDMon20YY with the millennium indicated in full.
These series of documents were obtained by BJT from time to time as circumstances permitted. The series in the document listing follow in their own alphabetical order.
The A series contains miscellaneous correspondence.
The CFL series contains the Christmas Family Letters from their inception in 1963 through 1970. These extraordinary documents were produced by Martin Kingslake, compiling contributions he solicited from his six living children scattered over the world. Each child wrote up the year’s activities of themselves, their spouses, and offspring. Each CFL contains up to 70 typed pages printed by offset lithography, drilled, covered, and string-bound. Final copies were sent by Father Kingslake to all contributors.
The FC series consists of correspondence relating to the Kingslakes’ family and friends, and sorted by years. Many of the letters are with their original mailing envelopes, some of which have interesting notes by the recipients.
The M series contains miscellaneous papers, books, and objects found in desk drawers and various places in the home. They are listed in the order found, but there was no apparent original order.
The P series contains personal papers: birth, medical, marriage, education, recreation, travel, social, financial.
The S series covers mainly, but not exclusively, the years of RK’s retirement.

The special abbreviations used in this register are:

AEC	Alexander Eugen Conrady, father of HGK, tutor of RK and HGK, Married Annie Bunney, daughter of an inn-keeper, Apr01, died 16Jun44, (Annie, 28May41). Hilda oldest of four daughters with Doris, Rene, Mable
BJT	Brian J. Thompson, literary executor for RK
EK, EKCo	Eastman Kodak Company
HGK	Hilda G. Kingslake, wife of RK, daughter of AEC
IO	Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
MLS	Martin L. Scott, indexer of this collection
OSA	Optical Society of America
RK	Rudolf Kingslake
SMPTE	Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SPIE	Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers
SPSE	Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers, later IS&T (Society for Imaging Science and Technology)

FC0	The FC series consists of correspondence relating to the Kingslakes’ family and friends. Most letters are with their original mailing envelopes. These werecollected from various locations and grouped in yearly folders. For convenience a copy in this folder of p12 of M38 gives the names, dates, and relationships of family members.
	*1929* [A year of great significance including the marriage of R&HGK, their removal to America, and the founding of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester./MLS]
FC1	Auntie Jessie Higham (RK’s mother’s sister) to R&H, 30Aug29. Wedding gift of old silver.
FC2	Cedric Kingslake (RK’s brother) to RK, 5Nov29. His new company letterhead, comic parody poem
FC3	Martin Kingslake (RK’s father) to RK, 26Nov29, (Margaret) K (RK’s mother) to HGK, 28Dec29, X-mas festivities
	*1930*
FC4	Aunt Jessie Higham to R&H, 6Feb30.
FC5	Frida (RK’s sister) to R&H, 6Mar30. Saw plays of GB Shaw.
FC6	Jack ____ to RK, 14Mar30.
FC7	Margaret to RK, 27Aug30, she on vacation, he&H visiting in London
FC8	Three bon voyage telegrams 29Aug30, from Conrady family, Doris, “all at Happisburgh” (vacation place) to R&H departing Liverpool for Montreal on Cunard Liner “Andania”
	*1931*
FC9	“Smiler” Miles to RK, 10Dec31 X-mas card
FC10	Vincent (cousin?) to RK, 15Dec31, theater inspector thanks for wedding gift
FC11	Card to R&H signed by all at supper, Boxing Day 1931, Kingslake family home, Camberwell
	*1932*
FC11a	TT to RK, 5Feb32, RK lived with the Browns in Whitbey Bay while working at Grubb-Parsons 1927-28. Browns probably New Church also.
FC11b	Geoff K (RK’s brother, 12 years younger) to RK, 6Feb32. long details of visit to works of Tower Bridge, many technical drawings
FC12	Margaret K to R&H, 8Sep32, note after R&H visited
FC13	Auntie Dorrie (AD Brown)(RK’s father’s sister) to R&H, 5Dec32,
FC14	Boxing Day greetings to R&K signed by all at 171 Grove Lane
FC15	Geoff K to RK, 9Jun33, 30p, Austin 7 car mechanical problems, many mechanical drawings, description of electrical exhibit,
FC16	“Frida (RK’s sister Elfrida) to R&H, 24Jul33, apparently soon to marry “Teddy”, sketch of ring of Teddy’s design, and Alice (Cedric’s wife) to make it.
	*1934*
FC17	Uncle Walter to R&H, 3Sep34. Recalls visit of RK’s mother to America; questions re Swedenborg
	*1935*
FC18	Martin Kingslake (RK’s father) to R&H, 20Jan35. Mentions tight schedule of playing organ at his two churches; family gossip; surprise that Mendelssohn wrote a horn sonata; hopes Rhees successor at UR will be a good one;
FC19	TT Brown (vide FC-11a) to RK, 29Mar35, note on envelope “written a year before his death”. Out of work because of general economic depression; Grubb-Parsons laying off; G-P just shipped very large telescope to Toronto; news of New Church; deaths of several friends and relatives.
FC20	Bernard (Higham, RK’s mother’s brother) to R&H, 26Apr35. BH in Bombay; has just taken new job as (manager?) of Willingdon Sports Club; mixed membership, Indians and Europeans; founded to bridge racial gap.
FC21	Martin K to RK, 29Oct35. Happy for news that R&H may spend a year in UK during exchange with LC Martin; puts in long hours at insurance firm; gets plenty of music weekends as his relaxation.
FC22	Photograph of Dacre Gardam’s children, Robert and Stella, vide FC-35, FC-42B
	*1936*
FC23	RK to Father, draft of letter sent 7Apr35. Asks father not to broadcast news of his career outside the family, not to “advertise” him; R concerned that chances for advancement could be damaged by father’s bragging. RK to Mother, draft of letter sent 21Apr36. Mother has apparently reported father’s umbrage at the above request and has demanded an apology. H appears to have written to explain, but this has not been accepted. Present letter is further attempt to set matters straight.
FC24	Mother to R, 23Aug36. Loving letter with family news; anticipation of Ks’ sabbatical in UK; birthday greetings; looking forward to seeing grandchild.
FC25	Picture postcard, Joyce (RK’s sister) to R&H& David, 2Sep36, from vacation camp Iden Rock “nr Rye”
FC26	Comic postcard, Doris to H, sent to greet them at new home (LC Martin’s)
FC27	Mother to R, 14Sep36, from camp at Iden Rock; vacation news, anticipation of arrival for sabbatical.
FC28	X-mas card from Uncle Walter & Aunt Crissie, with photograph of them
FC29	Geoffrey (brother of RK) to R, 7Dec36. Describes his work in stress calculations for aircraft design; New Church activities; repairs to decrepit (Austin 7?) car; asks advice on stereo photography.
	*1937*
FC30	Picture postcard RK to AEC, postmarked Bonn, Germany, 1937, asks about beer shop converted to museum.
FC31	Bernard Higham to R&H, 2Jan37, from Bombay, Rambling letter; extended apology for not having written; “but then I have always thought that the essence of a letter is not the news it conveys so much as the tangible evidence it shows that the sender has the addressee in mind and is sufficiently well disposed to him to take a considerable amount of trouble over him!”; “What a pity that the Duke of Windsor didn’t fall in love with a nice American girl.”
FC32	Charles Gardner to R, 9Jul37. Thanks for gift of overcoat. CG apparently New Church (familiar name for The Church of the New Jerusalem, based on the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg) minister.
	*1938*
FC33	Picture postcard of town of Chester, H’s mother to R, 13Aug38. Tells of holiday travels.
FC34	Denis __, to “Antie Hilda & uncle Rudof” thanks for X-mas gift; handmade card. (age8)
	*1939*
FC35	Dacre Gardam to R&H, 4Jul39. Happy at news of Alan’s birth (first son of R&HGK); family news. Wedding invitation, Joyce Gardam to AW Penn, 26Aug39 Evan Gardam to his father and sister, 2Jul39. About his work. (all items in same envelope)
FC36	Wedding invitation, Una Court to Geoffrey K., 2Sep39, photograph of couple
	*1940*
FC37	Denis __ (nephew) to R&H, 1Jan40, thanks for X-mas gift of a book on American trains
FC38	Cedric (R’s brother) to R&H, 14Jun40, Env. opened for inspection in the post. Describes his wife Alice’s final illness
FC39	Ewan __ to R&H, 1Jul40, response to apparent offer by K’s to take their two children for the duration of the war; refusal, with great thanks;moved from London to Wales for safety.
FC40	PAM Dyson to RK, 7Nov40. Father of “Kodakid” Kenneth Dyson. PAMD is a draftsman for Kodak Ltd. in their plant ar Ruislip. Thanks for taking care of his child; mentions needing help in maths. Dysons live near aerodrome and watch British fighter planes chase off the invading German planes; describes anti-aircraft fire shaking their home; rationing of tea, sugar, butter; optimistic for victory.
	*1941*
FC41	Maria Holz to RK, 30Jan41, In German Gothic script, transcribed by RK, [translated for this project by Jane Smith] postmark Bonn, Germany. Answers previous letter from RK, not found; no reply found. Asks after family and new child, mistaking it for a girl. News of wartime Germany; 3 brothers in service; wishes she could go; no food shortages.
FC42A&B	Oswald H. Warne to RK, 8Feb41. Introduces self as cousin to RK’s father. (Father’s mother’s name was Warne). Asks for family news. Answered, but reply not kept. Two photographs of D Gardam’s children, Robert and Stella. Dates marked cannot both be correct. Vide FC-22
FC43	Auntie Dorrie (AD Brown) to R&H, 9Nov41, tells of helping relocate bombed medical dispensary, Ipswitch, Suffolk.
FC44	Una K (Geoff’s wife) to H, 27Nov41. recounts how they get on in war-time, with rationing, National Service.
	*1942*
FC45	Uncle Bernard to R&H, 12Jan41. Still managing club in Bombay; little impact of war on India at this time.
FC46	Uncle Bernard to R&H, 24May42. Family news, death of wife in England; petrol rationing.
FC47	GT Watkins to RK, 24May42, old friend sends family news
FC48	Martin K (RK’s father) to R, 6Oct42. Ltrs taking 5 weeks across Atlantic; R had mentioned he was eligible for national service, father thinks unlikely in light of his work; UK rationing system working well; now living at 24Acland Crescent, their old home at 171 Grove Lane destroyed (by bombing); old car sold for £5; doing some accounting in retirement, now age 66; had 2-hour daylight saving time; high taxes to play for war, expects will have to pay after winning the war to rebuild former enemies’ countries, as after WWI; his old office at insurance company still standing, but badly damaged; clearing ground for new garden, bringing plants from old garden at 171; glad David is now going to school, and remembers R’s disappointment on first entering school that “drilling” did not mean making holes in wood. Martin K. to R, 7Jan43 (in same env. with above). Problems transferring funds to UK; glad to hear David (second son of R&HGK) likes school; improved educational methods to be thanked; MK called back to his former employment part-time, regular employees having been taken into national service; compares differences among his children with those of R’s; asks if R knows how much brother Geoff has contributed to the success of the Mosquito fighter plane used by the RAF; growing interest in the music of Sibelius; R has asked for opinion of music of (Gustav) Holst, M says practically dead now, but expects greater appreciation in 30-40 years; thanks heartily for X-mas gift of cardigan, unobtainable in GB; walks with aid of two sticks.
FC49	Auntie Dorrie to R&H, 28Nov42. Has been ill, and now retired; enjoys visiting relatives
FC50	Arthur Smith to RK, 8Dec42. Involved in war production in GB; amazed at abilities of women in skilled jobs; half of staff is female, many middle-aged housewives with children, grand workers, very enthusiastic; good news of war, confident of victory; child ill with respiratory conditions; home has new roof after damage in blitz; home life quiet as few go out evenings because of blackout; volunteers as Air Raid Warden; domestic help almost impossible to get; longs to visit in USA when Atlantic is safe again; sends picture of child.
FC51	“Greetings from the Christmas party at Coulsdon 1942 to RUDOLF & HILDA”, mailed 24Dec42, signed by the 13 attendees,
FC52	Stanley and Graham Sutton to R&H, 28Dec43, children thank for X-mas presents; GS hopes “you can read this letter. I am just learn to real-right.”
FC53	Emily Brown (Auntie Emmie, R’s father’s sister) to R&H, 25Jan43. Responds to letter that took about two months from USA; now has 53 nieces & nephews of all degrees, asks after David & Alan; R’s Uncle Norman has responsible post with London County Council; rarely travels far from home and shelter due to war restrictions; curtails detail for fear of censoring; names relatives in military positions; oranges not seen & shell eggs rare, but rationing works well; never short of real necessities; no queues as in WWI; stopped subscription to New Church Herald, disliking editorials and hairsplitting;
FC54	Margaret K (R’s mother) to R, 3 letters. 10Jan43, 7Feb43, 14Mar43. Thanks for cloth to make dress; responds to question of raising many children; David, now about 7, apparently giving R&H trouble; father had traditional X-mas lantern show [gas illuminated magic lantern, requiring new lime, a Kingslake X-mas tradition]; rely greatly on the radio for entertainment in evenings, some “funny, some merely silly, or unbearably jazzy & croony & awful.” Young child, Judith, daughter of Joyce & Cedric, died of complications from ear infection, after long illness in hospital (no antibiotics available for civilian use); worry over Joyce (R’s sister, age25) being called into Army. Photograph of Joyce (Joy) aged 83
FC55	Rev. Brian K (R’s brother, age36) to R&H, 8Feb43. Thanks for parcel; his letter. returned by censor for his having mentioned needing certain items, requests for presents being forbidden. Thank you letter. from BK’s daughter Margaret, age7. 2 photographs of BK’s family on first film since birth of youngest; waiting list for film.
FC56	Geoff K. to R, 13Jan42. Difficulties in celebrating holidays; ration troubles; long work hours and volunteer duties; family news; G can now reveal that he was working on the deHavilland Mosquito airplane, constructed partly of plywood; glad to see Americans now beginning to use wood also; amused to see in American magazines that it may be possible to use plywood for stressed members!; amateur photography faded out in GB for want of supplies, but bought used quarter-plate view camera; asks advice on photographic problems; Check sent with all presents to cover duties.
FC57	Cedric K. to R&H, 4Mar43. Thanks for parcel at X-mas; tells of death of daughter Judith, vide FC-54; collapse of mother, Joyce, following death; comfort that Judith is with her Maker.
FC58	Martin K. to R, 12Mar43. Censoring concerns; thanks for donation to the family New Church in Flodden Rd.; trouble with legs improving; busy with part-time accounting work;
FC59	Marian Gardam to R&H, 6Jun43. family news, especially of children; photographs of hers, and Stella.
FC60	Martin K. to R, 30Jun43. Thanks for EK annual report; enjoys return to work at insurance co.; not enough time for gardening; Joyce (R’s unmarried sister) has temporarily adopted child of man killed at Dunkirk; Joyce to enter nurses’ training in two years; Cedric to marry again in Aug.
FC61	Alan Brown to RK, 13Jul43. A paragraph cut out by censor. Son of family RK lived with when working for Grubb-Parsons, vide 11a; now in Fleet Air Arm training in Canada; hopes to visit R when on leave; seems to have impression that NY=NYC, and that Rochester must be near NYC.
FC62	Bernard to R&H, undated (posted1943). Touring India on long holiday using a 1935 Ford V-8 saloon equipped with a device that makes producer gas from coke, air, and water; with this, car tops out at 20mph; war seems not to have bothered him at all; passes along following letter, as requested: Geoff to Cedric, 28Jun42. Visit to wood research institute; fascinated by card index using perforated and slotted cards with needles to sort (probably McBee Keysort system).
FC63	Formal photograph of Cedric’s wedding party, married to Ivy Muriel Carr 7Aug43, mailed 18Oct43
FC64	Alan Brown to RK, 20Sep43. Still hoping to visit K’s in Rochester, nearer now, in Kingston, Ont. Note on env. indicates was told he could also bring a friend.
FC65	Cedric & Ivy to R&H, 14Oct43. Mentions R’s letter in which he told of visiting Montreal and visiting the 76-inch reflecting telescope built by Grubb-Parsons while R worked for them; C tells how he met Ivy; asks if RK knows Donald McMaster of Kodak (VP; of course RK did know him); DMcM said folks in Rochester couldn’t decide which Kingslake, R or H, was the more brilliant!; much family news.
FC66	Margaret K to R, 10Oct43. family news, holiday trip, someone gave some lemons, first they had seen in years!; 7 photographs of new garden.
FC67	Alan Brown to R&H, 12Oct43. Thanks for visit to Rochester; details of his training in instrument and other flying; 5 photographs of K family with Kodakid, and of house at 56.
FC68	Auntie Dorrie to R&H, 5Dec43. Annual letter; tells of bomb blast damage to relative’s house; air alerts so often they do not notice them; asks if H still has domestic help; still works sometimes in the medical dispensary where formerly employed for 30-some years. R’s note on env. “not ansd, died during 1944.”
FC69	2 photographs. (1)“At Silverside (near Arnside) in October1943” children’s ages, family of Rev. Brian K, vide FC-55. (2)”Scott Winfield Smith III” summer 1939.
	*1944*
FC70	Cedric K to R&H, 2Jan44. Praises his new wife, Ivy, for her skill in raising his children under wartime conditions. Food rationing working well; fresh milk and eggs scarce. Camera club activities; one member patenting flash synchronizer. Trains crowded to maximum. C has sold out his interest in his construction company. Working now on documenting major construction project. Thanks for presents to family.
FC71	Family photographs from Brian K, (R’s brother), no date. Brian and wife with infant.
FC72	Margaret K to R, 14Dec43, but mailed 24Jan44.Family news; difficulties of travel; getting to know and like Ivy; Cedric graying – “is it the war?” [Interlocking references in many letters; family keeps in good touch with one another.] No family X-mas celebration this year, as travel is restricted. 2nd letter in same env. 28May44. Glories in the blooming garden; saw uplifting “picture” of effort to save a rare nesting bird –“absolutely English”; visit by sister Joyce, nurse; saw King Haakon of Norway leaving Buckingham Palace; toured camp where German prisoners-of-war were kept; Father working on hymnbook for New Church. 3rd letter in same env., 23Jul44. Effect of buzz-bombs on English life; can’t invite friends to sleep in shelter, so overnight visiting is curtailed; describes noise of buzz-bombs (does not use that term) then the silence, then the explosion “and someone’s homes are gone!”; walking vacation nr Minehead; 23 people in train carriage intended for 8, and more still in the corridor, but the crowd good-tempered and jolly; Auntie Dorrie’s estate; grocer limits number of persons in shop during threats of air-raids for fear of panic – Gov’t orders!, “but we keep smiling!”;
FC73	Auntie Emmie (R’s father’s sister) to R&H, 25Jan44. Addressed to “Mr.” And used no letters after name, for “democratic” reasons; travel now discouraged by signs at stations; lost gate in front hedge (iron for war effort?); bomb damage to her house now repaired inside, but outside and greenhouse require “permits”; names nieces and nephews “greats & great-greats”; teaching children manners; Victorian ways; remembers little R hating to meet ladies out-of-doors because he didn’t like to take his hat off.
FC74	Geoff to R, 27Jan44. Thanks for X-mas parcel and check to pay duty; his work with the Home Guard; compares his son’s development with Alan’s; 8 annotated photographs of his children at play; replies to R’s telling of American use of metal vs. wood for many things, including furniture, although wood increasingly used due to shortages of metal; cannot tell of his work in aircraft design for security reasons; had gotten a hive of bees in his garden.
FC75	Peter Higham (son of Bernard) to R, 4Feb44. His father’s death in India;
FC76	GE Gardam to R, 13Feb44. Remembers visits to K family when R was young; R’s analysis of his children’s characters; rationing fair and not too restrictive; availability of clothing a problem; doesn’t like design of men’s suits – no turnups (cuffs), fewer pockets -- public reaction so strong, orders rescinded; household items very difficult to find; no toys or worthwhile books for children; has researched a process to increase production of guns; women in war production work do very well; women conscripted for war jobs if no small children at home; sent son to “private” school, despite much public sentiment against such schools in the new egalitarian Britain; people still enjoy going to London for pleasure, despite the bombing; many perceptive remarks on the behavior and beliefs of American servicemen; would entertain anyone R would recommend they should see, with the excuse of an introduction for R to “tide over the initial awkwardness”; have made no friends in 4+ years;
FC77	Martin K to R, 15Mar44. Thanks for parcel of food, many sweets, arriving 6 weeks after posting; Lord Wooton managing British food supply much better than in WWI; family birthdays; no longer goes out after blackout in evening; thanks for gift of money to the Church; enjoyed Elgar’s “The Kingdom” but doesn’t think if matches his “Dream of Gerontius” (of which Elgar wrote, “This, if anything of mine, is worthy of your memory.”/MLS); tired of tenants’ complaints; proposes way to sell rental property needing R’s help;
FC78	Margaret K to R, 2Apr44. Birth of Elfrida’s baby; Joyce’s collapse from overwork; death of Auntie Dorrie; demolition of 171Grove Lane, damaged by a landmine, which also killed a Mrs. Smith, has started, sad that her sons will not see their original home again; [RK and all siblings were born at 171.]
FC79	Rochester Fur Dressing Co. to RK, 26Jun44. Regrets not being able to mount a mole apparently caught by one of the K boys. R’s note on env. “Don’t burst out with this at mealtime. I will tell him.”
FC80	Alan Brown to K’s, 10aug44(?). No postage on env.; marked “On Active Service”. AB in 881th squadron of Royal Navy, on an aircraft carrier; all equipment, planes, carrier are American, including “iced water fountains everywhere and a soda fountain!”; cinema & concerts in the hangar; hockey on the deck; good collection of gramophone recordings on board; when in England completed his set of recordings of Bach Double Concerto; family news, new baby; longs for letters;
FC81	Martin K to R, 4 letters in same env. 29May44. [Difficult to read] Spending much time at old job, and working on New Church hymn book; misc. accounting jobs for church and family; doesn’t feel 68; 16Jun44. Some legal/financial document sent for R’s execution regarding sale of property at Eagle Hill. 28Aug44. [on letterhead of The General Conference of the New Church] MK and Rev. GW Wall are Joint Secretaries of the New-Church Hymn Book Committee; asks R’s help in getting permission to reprint a hymn by a Rochester composer. Draft of letter from RK to accomplish the above. 22Sep44. 20Oct44. Hopes to sell house occupied by old couple when one dies; rents now extremely low; prevented by Act of Parliament from increasing rents; very busy with hymn book;
FC82	Geoff to R, 21Sep44. Thanks for X-mas presents; Home Guard activities easing up; black-out and dim-out regulations; have lived through 5 years of black-outs; grown indifferent to distant bomb explosions; hopes to resume tradition of X-mas gatherings; end of European war seems in sight; very pleased with way food for the population was managed, the sinking of supply ships and the burning of warehouses notwithstanding; nutrition of children and expectant mothers better during the war than before.
FC83	Brian’s children, Angela & Margaret, to Uncle Rudolf and Auntie Hilda, 28-29Oct44 & Jan45. Thanks for letters and presents; news of the small world; Father Christmas at the children’s church party had to make excuse for no toys – bombed at Accrington!
FC84	GE Gardam to R, 26Nov44. End of war in sight; abolition of fire-watching; disbanding of Home Guard; removal of black-out; stationed in Wales; home in London badly damaged by flying bomb; news of far-flung friends, deaths in war of several; family photograph.
FC85	Geoff to R, 31Dec44. Thanks for X-mas parcel; more spare time now that Home Guard is abolished; 11 pounds of honey from his bees; wants to revive interest in jewelry making using old false teeth, etc.; more bee lore; Una to H, 19Nov44. Need to make or find second-hand toys for children due to scarcity; extra fat and meat ration for X-mas; anticipates time when trans-Atlantic travel is possible again; Geoff now working on design of civil aircraft; G enjoyed flying in Mosquito, which he helped design; news of children.
	*1945*
FC86	Maggie Higham (wife of Steven, R’s mother’s brother) to R&H, 7Jan45. Thanks for cardigan for Steven, now bed-ridden; S taking a long time to die and is weary of life, [cf RK’s attitude in his 90s. He frequently told MLS, “Marty, Don’t grow old.”]; Steven’s brothers Bernard and Horace died easily.
FC87	Geoff to R, 23Jan45. Thanks for X-mas parcel; American stuffed toys last 3x English; compares his disobedient son with R’s; son jealous of “perfect” sister; taking math courses; responsible for strength of fuselage of new airliner at deHaviland; Una only woman on social committee or residents’ association, and therefore in charge of refreshments; rarely get to visit mother and father in London; car not affordable; G received father’s microscope for X-mas, and will use it for study of bee diseases; asks optical questions about microscope; although War is over, photographic supplies still scarce; still making gold jewelery; after War blackouts ended, car lights increased, Home Guard “stood down”, work overtime reduced then ceased; with VE (Victory in Europe) and VJ (Victory in Japan) days street lighting returned, still cannot change jobs in critical industries without official approval; still feel that they are at war; general feeling in GB of disgust at America for having prospered from the war, while GB took the brunt of it (extensive detail).
FC88	Mabel Warne (1st cousin, once removed) to R, 1Mar45. bridging awkward relationships between branches of the family; mentions AEC’s “book of the family” which he scrupulously keeps; tells her life’s story; companion cured of depression by electroshock; with her, MW owns and manages a small orchard; “will you have me as a cousin?”Ans’d but no copy.
FC89	Martin K to R, 18Mar45. Dorrie’s estate; Joyce’s training as nurse-midwife; wants employment in Dr. Barnard’s homes or with Waifs and Strays Society; awaiting printer’s proofs of Hymn Book; membership in New Church decreasing; (MK has two typewriters but corresponds by hand); discusses W Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast, criticizes Olin Downes’ critique and comparison with Handel’s “Belshazzar”; death of Steven Higham; mother’s health greatly affected by the bombing during the war; (M&MK now both 69); would RK like a subscription to the New Church Herald?
FC90	Auntie Emmie to R, 12Mar45. Enjoyed 80th birthday; cannot take care of Margaret K till she is in better health; deaths of many family members; Kenneth Dyson no longer living with R&K, but perhaps still in USA.
FC91	Martin K to R, 6May45. Still doing some work for insurance firm, but may have to give that up to relieve his wife back home again, if domestic help not available; GB now has PAYE (pay as you earn) like US withholding tax; much work on New Church Hymn Book;
FC92	Margaret K to R, 11Jun45. Thanks for parcel of food and clothing; comedy show on conditions of the day; visits to and from many relatives; did not see the Victory Parade, but heard broadcast; Father limps a bit and uses a stick.
FC93	Martin K to R, 18Oct45. Work on Hymn Book committee; hopes young men will soon return to the insurance office so he can give that up, but will those with Captain’s rank want to come back to their old jobs?; Margaret K to R, 18Oct45. Family news; sister Joyce takes job at new maternity hospital, but soon quits as they have no servants and want nurses to do char work and “scrape blackout paint from windows.”; describes bomb damage to old family home; general devastation of entire neighborhood.
FC94	Rev. Brian K to R&H, 19Nov45. Thanks for parcel; though war is over, conditions not improved, and in some ways worse; B to do several months’ missionary work in Nigeria; packed and ready to go on 24 hours’ notice; much administrative indecision and foot-dragging; may need to postpone for a year, due to rainy season; famine in Nigeria; need to take packaged food; tinned milk from USA most welcome; wants to take photographs in Nigeria for lecture slides on return, but film virtually unavailable; ciné film (Pathé 9.5mm) also unavailable; youngest daughter speaks poorly, needs older children to interpret; list of presents sent.
FC95	GE Gardam to R, 19Nov45. (from Transient Officers Billets, Ulm, Bavaria) Sent to visit German factories of the same industry he was in at home; billeted in apartment of spinster school teacher; inspects letters, etc., terrible devastation; servile population, gathering firewood; dislikes American sweet things for breakfast.
FC96	Cedric, Ivy, and children to R&H, 25Nov45. Many in family visiting parents for X-mas; amazed to hear of R’s use of computing machines; amazed that USA has factory that can produce one Liberator airplane per hour!; visited Mable Warne, “a quaint bird,” and bought of her damsons and honey; move to new home in Derby; his firm building 35 Council houses and pulling down air-raid shelters; limited higher education for children; “When are you coming home again?”
FC97	Martin K to R,16Nov45. Thanks for book on atomic energy; death of Auntie Emmie; plans for X-mas. Martin K to R, 17Nov45. He has listed 2 Eagle Hill properties to be sold; fed up that Government controls peg rental rates at 1914 levels!; suggestion for X-mas present to Joyce; Martin K to R, 25Nov45. Sends book, hoping it will be of interest; pencils for the boys; Brian finally to go to Africa for missionary work 29Nov. Margaret K to R, 25Nov45. Wanted to send Halma game, but not yet available [See “How to Speil Halma by Paul Jennings in “The Jenguin Pennings.”/MLS] the exertion of going out and shopping causes heart palpitations, but around home is comfortable; Father only talks if you ask him; sewing for many family members; black fog prevented attendance at concert at Albert Hall; but attended another, the first in years – Berlioz’ “Faust”; Farewell party for Brian; new tree for the garden; sends picture book of London.
	*1946*
FC98	Family photographs (12) from England, various years. Margaret & Susan, Dec41 Susan, Joyce & Judith, Oct42 Gerald Charles, Margery Judith & mother, Jul45 R’s mother Margaret with her daughters Frida & Joyce, Mar45 Stella &Robert (Gardam), 1945 Gerald, Margery, & John, Aug46 do., 1947, and with parents, Dec47
FC99	Cedric & Ivy to R&H,20Jan46. Thanks for X-mas parcel; Ivy’s father is groom on large estate, still active at 74: Brian reached Africa safely; controls on building, shortage of secondary schools; Council houses limited to 1000 sq.ft.; hopes for better business’ change-over from war to peace basis is difficult; petrol still rationed; have Wolsley Ten car, RK has Pontiac; added electric heat to supplement the open fire in the lounge; son makes complex mechanical toys. 3 photographs of family, home, car.
FC100	Photograph of Cedric, Jan46. professional portrait
FC101	Martin K to R, 22Jan46. Thanks for X-mas parcel, especially the fruit cake; family news; enjoys R’s description of his work at EK, and the programs of concerts attended; M sends programme of X-mas concert at Southwark Cathedral; difficulties in attracting a minister to the Flodden Road church, outbid by another congregation; cutting back on office work, his department formerly all male, is now mostly female; selling of tenant houses very cheap; figures on German bombs falling on London; Flodden Road New church needs funds, and M asks R for a loan to be repaid; news clippings of unexploded bomb being disarmed.
FC102	Brian K to R&H, 14Feb46. Air-letter from Nigeria. Finds life there interesting; many learned natives with advanced degrees from European and British universities, and also naked savages, with hints of human sacrifice and cannibalism; vivid description of inland settlements; his arrival at villages is preceded by “talking drum” announcements, and instructions to welcome or be fined!; New Church has churches in 38 villages spread over an area as big as England; visited and prayed with lepers; feels the hope of the New Church for the immediate future is in Africa, and will die out in America and Europe until the effects of the Last Judgement is worked out; problem is that there are 7 languages here and only 3 have Bibles.
FC103	Una to R&H, 18Feb46. Thanks for X-mas parcel; Geoff offered position at Percivel, but needs release from deHavilland; coupon values for clothing sent; son Richard sends letter of thanks for book.
FC104	Martin K to R, 17Mar46. Sale of houses slow; thanks for gift of money to New Church.
FC105	Martin K to R, 20May46. Thanks for gift of books; house sale still dragged on by solicitors; Brian returning soon on troop ship;
FC106	Martin K to R, 13Jul46. Houses finally sold, proceeds divided; excessive duty on gift of socks; New Church has new minister, just inducted; Aunt Beatrice Higham sold her house to New Church for manse at modest price; New Church newsletter.
FC107	Notice of offer for sale of Eagle Hill houses
FC108	Joyce (R’s sister) to R&H, 1Nov46. Invited and longing to visit R&H in America along with mother; hoping the weather will be hot in USA, as England is so cold; wants to buy in USA professional clothing for new nursing position (no coupons needed); American Consulate says affidavit needed stating relationship, duration of visit, and responsibility. Misc. family photographs (12) of Joyce and her nieces and nephews.
FC109	Martin K to R, 25Nov46. Sending X-mas presents for children; Hymn Book nearing publication; annoyed at printer’s lack of care; please return previous envelope with airmail stamp for Joyce’s collection. Margaret K to R&H, 25Nov46. Bringing jewelry she made for H; looking forward to trip to America.
FC110	Martin K to R, 11Nov46. Sent paper to sign (other family members will also sign) for gift to Auntie Flora on her 80th birthday; forwards note from grandson Dennis, who used matriculation present money to buy a slide-rule; 2 photographs of “tea on the lawn” 6Jul46, for induction of new minister at Flodden Road church.
FC111	2 photographs, “Smith Summer 1946” & “the Wrights (sent Dec1946)”
	*1947*
FC112	Rev. Arthur Clapham to R&H, 10Jan47. New minister at New Church in Burnley, Lancs.; discouraging state of the congregation; had been run “by women … like a school for children.”
FC113	Iva to R&H, 14Jan47. Thanks for X-mas parcel; adds her thanks to Cedric’s; troubles of being a step-mother; still some shortages relating to the war;
FC114	Donald & Lois Warne to R&H, 12Jan47. Now in Greenville, SC; sending an old clock for the K boys to take apart and reassemble; first attempt at making home movies of her child; remembers good times with the Ks in Rochester; 3 photographs of son Preston.
FC115	Cedric & Iva to R&H, 13Jan47. Thanks for X-mas parcel; cheque to cover duty was too much, so extra given to the New Church; Iva plays badminton weekly; haven’t had candied peel for making fruit cake for 7 years; difficulty getting food for a party they are having; bread ration stamps need to be saved to buy cake; being friendly with the baker helps get better things; they now have the family baby grand piano; Iva leaving her job, as owner is reducing business as he ages; may be hard to get another good job in as small a town as Derby; asks about Kodak’s lens business; why are lenses coated?; pros and cons of continuing price controls; coal ration is 5 hundredweight per month, and can’t always get that; may be able to get shale-meat soon, and wonder what it will be like.
FC116	Martin K to (R&H), 12Jan47. Thanks for X-mas gift of cardigan, which matches his “best suit”; still doing the church accounts; mentions Byzantine architecture of new New Church building at Derby. [See FC-118 for photographs.] Margaret K to R&H, 12Jan47. Thanks for X-mas parcel of clothing and food; looking forward to trying the Bisquick; milk still rationed at ½ pint per person per day; New Church New Year Party today with conjuring show; attended Brian’s induction at Derby 4Jan; 3 of her children and 8 grandchildren attended, some meeting for the first time since the war; Geoff made her a gold-topaz pendant
FC117	Geoff to R, 3Feb47. Thanks for X-mas parcel; skirt for Una a bit tight, but adjustment to it and to her own periphery make it fit; he is now at Percival Aircraft in London working on stress analysis of a 6-8 passenger plane; Una “supply” teacher for Herts. County Council; G studying The Atom, reading Rutherford; lectured local group on the atomic bomb; quantum theory difficult; also studying Special Relativity; difficulty with son’s temperament; daughter whines for what she wants; thanks for help on optical questions; lists other aircraft made by Percival; excuses small letter paper as being the only size now sold. Una to R&H, (3Feb47). Swopped presents with Joyce for better fit.
FC118	Martin K to R, 21Feb47. Sends 2 postcards with pictures of the new New Church at Derby where Brian is pastor, MK has taken on job of editing Conference Rules for New Church; Tune Book [for organists and choirs, as opposed to the Hymn Book for congregations?] production delayed by strikes; failures of the general electrical supply; Britain plagued by strikes and shortages;
FC119	Cedric & Ivy to R&H, 30Mar47. Delighted with food parcel; surprised that although sugar is still rationed in the US, 2 pounds had been sent; gives point values of various rationed foods; queueing and patience still needed; has new job as building manager of the Denby Gas Co. with 45 workmen under him; have a new parrot which only chatters when alone, never for visitors; dental problems; Ivy attended tea to mark end of ladies’ badminton season;
FC120	Martin K to R, 21Mar47. Trip of Margaret and Joyce to visit America had to be abandoned because of inability to book passage; perhaps can be done after Sept next; floods and heavy snowfalls plaguing England; sends copy of new Hymn Book. Martin K to R, 10May47. Hymn Book and Tune Book being well received; monetary inflation spiraling; reviewing the New Church Conference records for past 130 years; trouble with arrangements for transfer of property after his death; laments fuel shortages; Martin K to R, 4Jun47. Sends New Church-related papers (not found); boy’s group at New Church very successful.
FC121	Cedric & Ivy to R&H, 9Jul47. Thanks for copy of Life Magazine on depression in England; fruits of their garden help with high prices and scarce supply; surprised that most houses in USA are made of wood; his work with commercial production of heating gas; activity with amateur theatrical group; daughter excelling in school; hopes David will bloom; parrot taciturn (vide FC119); strike at gasworks needed staff to run the operation, Cedric using the mechanical shovel; Ivy’s suspected appendicitis; Ivy to Wimbleton to see tennis matches;
FC122	Cedric & Ivy to R&H, 14Dec47. X-mas at home due to lack of petrol; parcel from America had just the things needed for X-mas cake; shortages continue; less milk now available than during war; plans for family visits; making wood toys for 120 children of works’ families; enjoying evening-dress dances; cold snap caused crisis at gasworks; wonders what will happen to the works when it is nationalized; son may have to do army service before going to university; sold the parrot because of cost and mess (vide FC121.)
FC123	Marian Gardam to R&H, 14Dec47. Thanks for X-mas parcel; children amused at animal biscuits; Photographs of Robert and Stella; news of children’s schooling; Robert has outgrown his tantrums; Norman’s activities: county council, teaching German, church; she in Bromley Choral Society and cycles with Joyce; hopes David will be brilliant later on in one direction; clothes need constant patching and mending; Labour Government have not made a good job of the post-war situation.
FC124	Margaret K to R&H, 19Dec47. Thanks for X-mas parcel of butter, sugar, dried fruits, fats; Joyce visiting; went to London and saw Royal Wedding pictures in Technicolor; petrol shortage will keep Cedric and Ivy at home; marvels at R’s many travels; buses crowded on Sundays with women and market bags, preventing her from going to church; old neighborhoods being leveled for new housing; will send Hilda a pair of work gloves as worn in the Women’s Services; Martin K to R, 19Dec47. Wishes for happy X-mas; this letter in place of usual cablegram.
	*1948*
FC125	Margaret K to R&H, 18Jan48. Great thanks for parcel of shoes; news of family and friends; urges card games for Alan and David to build arithmetic skills; friend badly hurt in bombing; enjoyed the annual “lantern show” by Martin [magic lantern with lime-light from gas cylinders, a family tradition/MLS]; inequalities of the customs fees on parcels received; [Back of envelope has prices of chemical apparatus R purchased for boys, given about 1990 to MLS]
FC126	Martin K to R, 27Jan48. Thanks for X-mas parcel; food-stuffs provided the first blancmange since 1939; liked cutting R had sent about the whole of Brahms’ works being presented in Rochester; war damage to house finally being repaired; attempt to rejuvenate soda-water siphon drenched kitchen. Martin K to R, 5Feb48. Sending book “The Lost Treasures of London” on war damage.
FC127	Geoff to R, 4Jan48. Thanks for X-mas parcel; food situation still worse than during the war; thanks especially for the bed-sheets, which require elaborate paper-work, and are only issued to newly-marrieds and growing children; carol singing with friends at home, accompanied by the gramophone, there being no piano; greeted by old teacher at a reception at Royal Aeronautical Society; apprehensive about future of aircraft industry in UK; sackings to reduce costs.
FC128	Margaret K to R, 21Mar48. Church Socials are different now with families having young children; MK arranged music of amateur members; Joyce frequently ill; children unable to sit still and concentrate from disruption of air-raids and evacuation; Auntie Flora Klickmann (Martin’s sister) published another book, advert. From Times Lit. Sup.; war damage now all repaired at home; garden and forced house flowers doing very well. Martin K to R, 22Mar48. Accounts on duties for parcels. Statement of accounts for New Church church and appeal for funds.
FC129	Richard K, (son of Geoff), to RK, 11Apr48. Thanks Uncle Rudolf for set of building blocks.
FC130	Frida (Elfrida, sister of R) to R&H, 23May48. Food rationing now off for the first time since 1940; now free to select one’s own milkman, not government-assigned one; visited Science Museum and missed having R to guide; sending back issues of Punch; also children’s notes of thanks for presents.
FC131	Tony Higham to R, 1Jun48. Urologist thanks R for sending special bulbs for cystoscope; questions still unanswered about the nationalization of health service; fear that bad surgeons will be helped and good ones unrewarded;
FC132	Martin K to R, 10Jun48. Brian’s booklet selling well. Inflation driving prices up; hard on pensioners like himself; will probably go back to work; attended BBC light pops concert; looking forward to proposed visit to England next year; Margaret K to R, 11Jul48. Summer travels to visit relatives, historical pageant at St. Albans Martin K to R, 12Jul48. Corrects Mother’s dates of events; War Damage Commission sent check for loss of 171 Grove Lane in 1940; that property now converted to rental flats. Photographs of Jennifer, Angela, Margaret in Derby, children of Brian
FC133	Cedric&Ivy to R&H, 2Sep48. Hoping to get son into a new “red brick” university, as traditional schools are all full, preferences given to ex-servicemen; they have let car license lapse, as gas is rationed at only 1.5 gal/month; undercertain about his job when the company is nationalized next month; starting of a repertory theater in Derby by subscription; took parents to theater in London for “Annie Get Your Gun”
FC134	Frida (sister of R) to R&H, 3Oct48. Back of env. has list of items to be sent; children’s diseases; train watching, seeing the Royal Scot railway train; appreciation of English rural scenes; suggests “American cloth” (oilcloth ?) tablecloth; milk shortages again; Photographs of children Gerald, Margery, John.
FC135	Martin K to Kingslake, 6Dec48, cablegram; “UNEXPECTEDLY AND PEACEFULLY MOTHER PASSED AWAY FIFTH DECEMBER JOYCE WAS PRESENT WRITING = FATHER = Martin K to R, 15Dec48. Death of his wife, Margaret, mother or R, on 5Dec at age 72; details of her last day, an active and happy one; very unexpected; card of thanks for sympathies (2). Photographs of Martin and Margaret in the garden of their last home, and of Martin sitting alone inside.
FC136	Beatrice (Higham) (sister to Margaret, R’s mother) to H&R. Sympathy on loss of mother. [Margaret was cremated.]
	*1949*
FC137	Geoff K to R, 1Jan49. His promotion to Chief Stressman for aircraft company; experimenting in electronics with war surplus gear; his son also joins in this; still making jewelery; bees have all died; reactions of family members to Mother’s passing; sending Punch subscription as a present. Una to R&H, 1Jan48. Tells of X-mas with Father and Joyce; traditional lantern show; expecting baby in March; hospital will be free under new Health Scheme;
FC138	Martin K to R, 6Jan49 Florrie Emily Green to come and keep house for him and Joyce. Do 12Jan49. Details of Mother’s death; medical report; great outpouring of sympathy from friends; needed to have 150 cards printed; house filled with flowers;
FC139	Martin K to R, 3Feb49. Received 123 letters of sympathy on death of Mother; sad at news that Brian is giving up ministry to be schoolmaster, as church didn’t pay enough to support his family; substitutes as organist for his former pupil in Blenheim Grove; sorry for David’s leg fracture; comments on article about mis-naming of string instruments; giving lecture on “the orchestra” using phonograph records and wall charts to group at Flodden Road Church; Do, 1Jun49. Announces he has asked Florrie (Florence Emily Green) to be his wife; summer or fall wedding planned; several other children congratulate. Do, 24Jul49. Wedding to be Sat. 27Aug; encloses formal invitation, see FC142 See also FC145.
FC140	Frida to H, 26May49. Thanks for clothing for children; depends on home-grown food as store prices are so high; makes preserves to the extent of sugar availability; sends obsolete ration book as curiousity; Photograph of her three children.
FC141	Maria Holtz to RK, 18May49. [typed letter in German, longhand translation by W Schade] She has lost many friends in the war; asks after RK’s family and students; (she may have been a student of his); destruction of Bonn and Munich; beautiful trees were cut for fuel; Beethoven’s house spared; asks if he remembers various sights; lost job in pharmacy; has heard that jobs as housekeepers are plentiful in America; would like an American boarder; refers to herself as “little German teacher-ess.” Photographs: herself, one of Cologne, two of Bonn. Do, 12Jun48 [longhand letter in German].
FC142	____ to M/M RK, posted 28Aug49. Wedding invitation and announcement card. vide FC139.
FC143	Photographs (4) at 24 Acland of R&H, David, Alan, Martin, Florrie.
FC144	Arthur Smith to RK, 6Dec49. News of old school (Imperial College, London) chums and of British optical industry in general; five family photographs.
	*1950*
FC145	Oswald Warne to “cousins R&H” (son of R’s father’s mother, so really cousin to R’s father), 4Jan50. Just moved to Tucson from Phila. for his wife’s health; building new home with his own hands; speculates that Martin’s new wife was his intended in about 1898 or 99; OW and his wife Margaret send New Years greetings.
FC146	David to mother HK, 12Nov50. Bears sticker of The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ; trip to play sports with Blair (Academy) in Blairstown, NJ about 90 miles from Peddie; requests a medication quickly; needs Bible for religion class. School emblem seems to show cowboy and mountains, latin motto illegible. DK is 13. Do, 4Jan51. Weather warm; no buzzards; sends South American coin to brother Alan. Do, 26Jan51. Affectionate card with note; thanks for parcel of food and supplies; much likes the things to make printing stampers; plans for visit home. Do, 18Apr51. School did well in games with Admiral Farragut school; Do, undated; Thanks for baseball mit; asks if grape juice is good, had to buy Bible.
	*1951*
FC147	Gertrude E. & Mabel H. Faithfull, 10Jan51. Marvels at colored photographs sent following recent visit; enjoyed King’s broadcast X-mas message; [Who are these women; how related to family?] Cedric & Ivy. 6Feb51; Thanks for special calendar with family color photographs from last year’s visit; discusses pictures month by month.
FC148	Martin K to David K, 28(month?)51. Photographic postcard of London Bridge; includes Guardian Building, where MK was employed. May have been a birthday greeting.
	*1952*
FC149	Frida (R’s sister)to R&H, 27Jan52. Thanks for X-mas gifts; son John, photograph enclosed, likes the toys for his Hornby trains; many things still in short supply; 2.5 pounds of dried fruit expected to last a year; intimation that Joyce is displeased with Father remarrying, son Gerald whiz at collecting stamps; misses being with grandfather Martin.
FC150	Dorothy Wright (wife of Prof. David Wright) to H&R, 11May52. Thanks for X-mas parcel and for hospitality during their recent visit to USA. David lectured at Royal Institution. Two photographs of K family, one with Dorothy.
FC151	Photographs of Jennifer, Angela, and Margaret, children of Brian.
	*1953*
FC152	Arthur Smith to K, 10Jan53. Thank for X-mas gift package; thrilled with Life Savers candy; he appeard to be in optics with Wray optical firm; the envelope has stamp “Buy a British Lens Because It’s Better”; factory is expanding; saw photographs of R’s sons in book LP; Margery Smith to H, 10Jan53. Thanks for parcel, especially raisins; they were allotted ¼ pound for holidays; usually had to rations children to “just one” to eat; asks if K’s are coming over for the coronation (of EII). Two photographs of their children taken with new Wrayflex camera.
FC153	David to “Pa”, 13Apr53. (DK is 16 years old.) Discussion of buying boat and motor for it, breaking in on canal before taking to Canada; asks for specific terms for getting boat and motor, (how much obedience?); asks for list of specific things he must do for R to put his signature on a license (application); cut finger healing well; sorry for dirty envelope (shoe polish).
FC154	Photographs: Norman, Robert, and Stella Gardam, Sep53, two, one with cat. John & Margery, children of Frida Peter, William, Paul Newall (no other identification) Elizabeth, daughter of Geoff and Una
FC155	HGK to Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation, 7Jul49.Seeks advice on selection of schools for boys, especially David.
FC156	Death notice for David Kingslake, from Rochester D&C, 10Jul2002. DK died 26Jun2002 Death notice for David Kingslake, from Charlestown (WVA ?) Mail, 2Jul2002.
FC157	Corres. and program for Maurice Evans lecture-recital in support of the British War Relief Society, 16Feb41. RK headed ticket committee.
FC158	Alan Kingslake 6Jun39-14Jul56. Alan drowned in a swimming accident while at summer camp in Pennsylvania, age 17. Body found 9 days after drowning; immediately cremated. Lists of notes and calls of condolences, flowers received. Two poems; two letters from friends in Maine who knew Alan from summers there. Notes (by HGK?) toward a reply. Note by HGK summer1956 about Alan’s passing, describes his personality, interests, strengths, faith. “...(He was) found kind & obedient, gentle by all except his Father, who found all boys evil, malicious – woe, woe is me!” “...(H)e died a good chap – not having to murder men in war.” Horror at receiving ashes, clothing from camp. Note added March57: disposal of his ashes, some to favorite camp in Maine (probably Camp Maranacook, Readfield, ME, vide FC253), some in home garden. Note added 1983: wild crabapple tree grows in yard where his ashes were scattered. Vide P17
FC159	Wedding of Margaret Higham, niece of R&H, 1958. Letter and photographs.
FC160	Christmas cards from friends in Japan, probably 1964.
FC161	Alleyn’s School papers. Annual reports, Old Boys’ Magazine. (Envelope has “Gardam Feb75” in RK’s hand. GE Gardam sent a son to some private school.)
FC162	David K papers & photographs Invitation to DK’s graduation from Peddie School, 12Jun55 DK’s wedding (to Joan) photographs 23Aug58 RK to DK, 26Sep63. Advice on money being given for purchase of house. Simplistic advice on money management to a grown son. DK to parents, 24Jan64. Tells of promotion and new responsibilities at Budd Co.; problem of choice of new car; hopes for camping trips and FM radio; delight in new home. RK’s note on envelope “Keep this letter.” Photograph of DK, Oct89, with psaltries he made, apparently at some sales event. DK to parents, 6May86, on his letterhead “Bowed Psaltries David Kingslake” from Red Creek, West Virginia. Thanks for visit in Rochester, problem with site for new house. DK to RK, 21Jul89. Thanks for gift of bonds and solar-powered calculator; questions about its working; application to his instrument making; progress on new house; news of folk arts shows and amount of sales, joke about heat. DK to parents, 12Aug92. News of vacation plans at Cape Hatteras; photographs of table he made; his goal to make all the furniture for his home. DK to parents, X-mas95. Thanks for books on furniture; sends present of chair-side table he made; Dorothy designs and finishes some furniture he makes; she has won several prizes for her designs; three photographs of her at work.
	*1955*
FC163	HH Emsley to RK, 29Jan55. Seeks photograph of AEC for a book he has written. Sim. 4Apr55, Thanks for sending photographs; news of old friends in optics.
FC164	Alan K to mother, 24Nov55. et seq. Coat lost on train, then found; news of his classes at The Hill School, Pottstown, PA.
	*1956*
FC165	A Clapham to R&HGK, 2Jan56. News of the New Church in island of Jersey; poor attendance; “Jersey French” derived from old Norman French; growth of Jersey as a holiday resort; Jersey laws differ from some mainland laws.
FC166	MK to RK, 25Apr56. Thanks for 80th birthday present of £50, “shock of (his) life”; bought portable radio set “to plug in anywhere in the house”; what other children did for his birthday;
FC167	Mabel H. Faithful to R&HGK, 24Dec56. Sad at Alan’s death; good times at Brighton with friend; wonders how Christmas is kept in America; thinks all the Kingslakes are clever; death of her blind, deaf brother; only she remains of her family.
	*1957*
FC168	Angela (daughter of Brian) to “Uncle Rudolf and Auntie Hilda”, 29Dec57. From Johannesburg, South Africa; thanks for gift of money; will use it for her return-home fund; can’t bring pet dog back because of quarantine, but monkey could come straight through; working at Gestetner’s (duplicating company);
FC169	Brian K (in Florida) to R&HGK, 26Aug57. Angela met and got engaged to Purser’ Clerk on ship to England. Martin and Florrie have met his family and approve; he is C of E, but amenable to New Church; he asked for transfer to shore job, she working two shifts to save for wedding; visiting professor from USA says “racialism dying out”; chairman of African Music Society; has Willys station wagon and Nash Rambler; 5 photographs of Angela with intended and others.
	*1958*
FC170	Joyce K (in New Zealand) to R&HGK, Oct58. Glad they like David’s wife, Joyce; (David still in college, Lehigh University, Bethelem, PA); mentions photographs enclosed but not found.
	*1959*
FC171	Beatrice Higham K to R&HGK, 5Sep59. Congratulations on arrival of granddaughter; family news.
FC172	Oswald H. Warne to R&HGK, 10Dec59. Cousin to MK; family news.
	*1960*
FC173	G&G Fassin to R&HGK, holidays 1960, seasonal card, inquiry about family.
FC174	MK to RK, (4 documents, all in one readdressed envelope) 13Aug60 (hand-written) Family news and referral to enclosed “autobiography” of Brian K; 13Aug60 (typed) Gives key to names in Brian’s “autobiography” and corrigienda by MK;4Oct60 Christmas gift of book he is sending, “The Memoirs of Lord Ismay” [Could not find in Debrett’s/MLS] (no date) “THE RUINED HOUSE,” An Essay in Autobiography by Basil Kirke (Brian K), 8p typescript. [Very valuable for insight into family life/MLS.] BK visits the ruin of the original family home at 171 Grove Lane, Camberwell, destroyed by a parachuted land mine during WWII; reminisces about childhood adventures; RK as older brother leads many activities; much self-reliance; RK’s many electrical, acoustic, and optical activities; RK makes lens and telescope; Cedric K very good with things mechanical, makes chessboard with every square a different wood, Brian not good at such; R, C, and M wire the house for electric light, checking their work with a “megger;” R restores church organ after paint spill; family coinage “ledmunny”; ruined house as allegory for the modern world. Donald J Thomson to MLS, 8Dec2003, personal communication, Explains “megger.” Note: Brian K. also wrote a book, “For Heaven’s Sake!” with chapters on the application of Swedenborgian principles to daily life. Published byThe Christopher Publishing House, North Quincy, MA 1974. LC 74-75163 Many of the chapters read like sermons. Copy in UR Rare Books BV 4832.2.K54 1974.
FC175	Cedric&Ivy K to R&HGK, 1Sep60. Send 2 wedding photographs; sorry for RK’s jaundice; family news.
FC176	Oswald H. Warne to “Cousins” R&HGK, 25Apr60 & 1Dec60. Now living in California and hopes to see the K’s.
	*1961*
FC177	Arthur Clapham to R&HGK, 9Jan61, Apology for typing a personal letter; poor performance of organist at New Church service; travels from their home in the Channel Isles to Scandinavia; quotes Danish lady saying Danish not so much a language as a disease of the throat;
FC178	Maurice Taylor & Peggy (Brian’s daughter Margaret) to R&HGK, 11Dec61. Delighted with gift of Dr. Mees’ book (probably From Dry Plates to Ektachrome Film); family news.
FC179	Norman Kershaw to RK, 1Dec61. Congratulations to R&HGK for producing the second volume of Conrady’s “Applied Optics and Optical Design”; NK was AEC’s student in 1916; head of Kershaw&Sons optical manufacturers. Pamphlet about that compamy’s war efforts.
FC180	“Auntie B” Mrs. Bernard Higham to HG&RK, 13Dec61. Heard K’s on audio tape: family news.
FC181	Kogoro Yamada to RK, 19Mar61. Ltr of transmittal of a book he wrote, “George Eastman and Eastman Kodak”; prominent mention of RK;
FC182	Photograph of and her children, X-mas61.
FC183	Oswald Warne to R&HGK, Dec61. Cousin to RK’s father; hard living on small pension.
FC184	MK to RK, 21Oct61. Mimeographed 4th letter to family with final plans for a Family Party in Dec., first in 11 years; (MK now 85); to be audio taped for those overseas; MK seems to be paying all expenses, including travel, for everyone attending.
	*1962*
FC185	Zyun Koana to RK, 8Jun62. Thanks for kindness during stay in Rochester. Visited 33 places of optical interest on trip around world, returning now to Tokyo. Lectures on ultramicrofilming. Tells of using joke in lecture; well received at IBM in USA, but not in Germany. Mentions enclosing translation of item RK had asked for [not found]. Also encloses diagram of Auto-Nikkor lens f/1.4, F=5cm. [RK criticized such diagrams being called “cross-sections” as the true cross-section of any lens is a circle. Lens diagrams are longitudinal sections.] Regards HGK as “most intelligent and warm-hearted lady I have ever met in my trip.”
FC186	Maurice & Peggy Taylor to R&HGK, 8Dec62. He has accepted to a professorship at Bowdoin College, Maine, USA. Hope his daughter will not marry an American. Other family news.
FC187	Charles G. Wynne to RK, 1Jun62, & (attached) CGW to HGK, same date. Concerning staying with them when over here for Summer Course in Optics.
FC188	Several letters gathered together in one envelope by RK. Envelope labeled “Vivien Higham”.Here in order found. John B Higham to RK, 22Jun63. Thanks for hospitality to Vivien on visit to USA. Received copy of “The Family Party” from MK. JB Higham to RK, 29Sep62. Vivien may get job in USA. Other family news. Vivien Higham to “Aunt Hilda”, 17May63. Thanks for visit in Rochester. Vivien Higham to “Cousin Rudolph”, 2Apr63. [RK bristled at the wrong spelling of his first name.] Proposes visit. Now living in Chicago. Vivien Higham to R&HGK, 10Aug63. Has spent summer working at Yellowstone Park. Now will travel throughout the US. Says can now legally drink alcohol. Vivien Higham to RK, 20Nov62. Introduces herself and hopes to visit them in Rochester. Has just gotten a job in Chicago.
	*1963*
FC189	John ______ to “Uncle and Auntie”, 6Feb63. Post card from NZ; thanks for money; travelling NZ and Australia with Margery.
FC190	HH Hopkins to R&HGK, Jul63. Travelling to Rochester (probably for a course) and politely declines K’s invitation to stay with them, as he will have wife and two children with him.
FC191	LC Martin to R&HGK, 2Jan63. Family news; new edition of his book “Technical Optics, Vol. 1”
FC192	LC Martin to RK, 20Feb67. Thanks for favorable review of his “The Theory of the Microscope”; obscure allusion to some others in optical field.
FC193	Shigeo Minanis to R&HGK, 7Dec63. Photographic X-mas card of family
FC194	David Brown to R&HGK, 21Sep63. Thanks for hospitality during visit in Rochester; visited Dr. Mayall at Tucson, then Mounts Palomar and Wilson; enclosed photograph of R&H.
FC195	Zyun Koana to RK, 2Mar63. Will send an antique Japanese sword guard for RK’s appreciation of Japanese art; photographs with this letter; elected Chairman of Physics Department of Univerisity of Tokyo; refers colleague interested in high-speed optical polishing.
FC196	Aunt B (Beatrice Higham, sister to RK’s mother) to R&HGK, 14Dec63. X-mas good wishes; family news.
FC197	“Florrie & Father” (MK & second wife) to R&HGK, posted 6Oct63. String-bound notes of “New Zealand Tour, February and March 1063” by Rev. EC and Mrs. Howe.
	*1964*
FC198	Hiroshi Kubota to R&HGK, posted 16Dec64. X-mas card and note; thanks for present of silver bowl; two photographs
FC199	Aya (Mrs. Hiroshi) Kubota to HGK, posted 16Dec64. Photographs of Japanese ladies with identifications, taken at optical conference in 1964; again thanks for gift.
FC200	Beatrice Higham to R&HGK, 9Jan64. Disappointed not to receive letter with Rochester news; seems to enjoy her life in some kind of elder housing.
FC201	Cedric & Ivy to R&HGK, 12Nov64. Picture post card of a 1923 Morris Cowley, an automobile the K boys once owned.
FC202	John R. Miles to RK, 20Oct64. Sends 8 photographs of trip to Japan.
FC203	John & Ruth Ban to R&HGK, 26Jul64. Thanks for hospitality; sends address of his father, a Christian clergyman in Tokyo, with directions in Japanese to show to taxicab driver.
FC204	Auntie B to R&HGK, 14Dec64. Thanks for long letter; was rude last year asking for a letter (vide FC200); news; Peter, Uncle Bernard’s son, Governor of Gloucester Prison; Florrie not well, but MK is “full of beans.”
FC205	Florrie & Father (MK) to HGK, 15Jan64. (MK now 88yo) Thanks for lengthy New Year letter; tells of holiday events; hints for next year’s presents – pillow cases for Florrie, miniature orchestral scores, and unused USA commemorative stamps for him.
FC206	Zyun Koana to RK, 14Oct64. Glad to see RK again at ICO Conference; two half-frame slides taken with camera whose lens was designed by man in slide; congratulations on Progress Medal.
FC207	Auntie B to HGK, 4Mar64. Thinks David K may resemble the Higham side of the family; hopes R&HGK will visit her soon.
FC208	Beaumont (Newhall) to RK, 26Jan64. Post card of London from Director of George Eastman House.
FC209	Hideya & Yasko Gamo to R&HGK, 21Dec64. X-mas card and 5 photographs of K’s at sushi bar.
	*1965*
FC210	Peggy & Maurice (Taylor) to K’s, 5Aug65, picture post card of Rochester (England) Cathedral; family news.
FC 211	Brian & Ivy (Kingslake) to K’s, 29Aug65, picture post card of New Church church in Portuguese Bend, CA, designed by FL Wright. News of trip across USA; preaching in all New Church churches on Pacific Coast.
FC212	Shoji Sasagawa to K’s, 28Jun65. Thanks for hospitality, 6 photographs.
FC213	Koichi Yuta to K’s, 22Aug65. Grateful letter for kindness in Rochester; two photographs (half-frame slides) of K’s at Letchworth Park, apology for non-Kodak processing of film.
FC214	____ Walles to K’s, 4Dec65. Photographic greeting card from Sweden.
FC215	Hideko Koana to HGK, 20Nov65. H Koana is wife of RK’s student, Zyun; thanks for gift of brooch, describes Noh-play doll she sent; deep appreciation for kindness.
FC216	Kogoro Yamada to K’s, 20Jan65. Pleasure of meeting K’s in Tokyo; thanks for “Lenses in Photography”;
FC217	Koichi Yuta to K’s, 26Jul65. “Summer Greeting” with explanation of the Japanese custom of sending such. Moved to new address. Do., 6Nov65. Sends another new Rochester address; learning to drive. Do., Thanks for kindnesses; first came her to learn lens design, but now also wants to understand this country and its people .
FC218	Vera (Kingslake?) to Uncle Rudolf and Auntie Hilda, 7Feb65. Wife of Dennis. Thanks for gift of money to new baby, Jonathan. Spent money on wheeled chair and swing, rest to National Savings. Two photographs of baby.
FC219	Jennifer ______ to R&HGK, 4Apr65. Daughter of Brian. Picture postcard of Wellington, NZ, where she and her family of 4 now live.
FC220	Susan & Ian Birkenshaw to R&HGK, 3Dec65. Xmas card with photograph of them and children.
FC221	Auntie Bea to HGK, 3Feb65. Death of Churchill; saw state funeral on TV of friend in another part of her old-age home; family news; hope for a visit from R&H.
FC222	Zyun Koana to RK, 24Feb66. Thanks for receiving him Aug65; encloses photographs of him and RK in latter’s office. Thanks for hospitality at home. Asks RK to receive Y. Doi, chief optical designer of Fuji. Speaks of two kinds of optical designers: (1) purists not concerned for practicality, and (2) those “proud of making a good design under severe boundary conditions.” Doi of latter type. RK to Koana, 2Mar66. Agrees gladly to see Doi; has two Doi patents in file.
FC223	Hideko&Zyun Koana, ____65. Xmas card with microscopic test image on glass. (in envelope)
FC224	Shigeo Minamis to R&HGK, 20Dec65. Photographic holiday card of his family; mentions work on far IR optics at Ohio State Univ.
	*1966*
FC225	M Ikeua to R&HGK, 29Dec66. Photographic postcard of MI, wife, and child; thanks for hospitality in Rochester; now back at Minolta; saw RK in Kodak ad in Physics Today.
FC226	Z Koana to RK, 6May66. Thanks for hospitality to Y Doi of Fuji; Sends translated text of a short story, “Kanzan and Jittoku,” by Mori-Ohgai of Japan, written about 1916, a ten-page typescript. The significance of this story to anything else in this archive is unclear. The K’s, though, especially R, were interested in Japanese art and culture. ZK mentions order of naming in Japan and in the West – he is Koana-Zyun in Japan, and Zyun Koana in the West.
FC227	Elizabeth K to Uncle Rudolf & Auntie Hilda, ?Dec66. Daughter of Geoff&Una. Writing from Penang, Malaysia; thanks for Xmas present of cash, used to buy a star sapphire and silk yardgoods in Thailand – “You’ve clothed me for about a year, and bejewelled me too!” Drove 1000 miles from Penang to Bangkok despite warning about road conditions and terrorists. More adventures.
FC228	Richard K to Uncle Rudolf&Auntie Hilda, 3Jan66. Son of Geoff. Thanks for Xmas presents; working on advanced radar; two photographs of RK, wife, infant Nicola; visit to MK, who played three piano solos written by Uncle Brian; MK very lively at 89.
FC229	Auntie B (Higham) to R&H, 16Sep65. Family news; complains of advertisements interrupting TV programs, thus prefers BBC; old friend wanted to give her her TV when she passed on, but B refused it.
FC230	KF Dyson to RK, 24Aug66. Addresses R as “Father”; now living in Caledonia, NY; working on farm Ruliffson’s?), driving tractors; will write “Mother” as soon as possible; wishes R happy birthday; sent parcel.
FC231	Shigeo Minamis to R&HGK, 25Dec66. New Year greeting and family photograph. Still doing infrared work, and RK’s “Applied Optics and Optical Engineering” helps him. Son reads about Edison and Livingstone.
FC232	__ Inglestam to R&HGK, Xmas66. Appreciates the 50-year history and the volumes of “Applied Optics and Optical Design”; Reviewing the latter for some publication.
FC233	Max & Edith Herzberger to R&HGK, Dec66. Apparently living in Zurich since EK retirement; visitors from many countries visit; family doing well in their professions; M has lectured in many cities, but thinks his doctrine will not be accepted in his lifetime; best wishes for holidays.
FC234	__Inglestam to R&HGK, 22Jan66. He is in physics department of Instute of Technolory Bromma, Sweden; American optics seems to be leading the world now;
FC235	M Isshiki to R&HGK, 17Aug66. Thanks for kindness during stay in Rochester; tells everyone in Japan that Rochester is “a splendid place to live in; calm and beautiful.” Two photographs: RK at Hannyaen Inn, Japan, and of koto players.
	*1967*
FC236	M___ D___ to HGK, 12Jan67. (cannot read name) Found 65&66 Xmas cards waiting on return to Australia from USA; Ted working on cooperative US-Aust. spectroscopic telescope project for southern skies; family news.
FC237	Doreen & Robert Ditchburn to R&HGK, 8Dec67. Holiday card; after reading of Rochester events, wonders how soon “colored” problems will come to their city in England.
FC238	O Wannag to HGK, 2Nov67. From Oslo, Norway; describes the beauty and peace of a vacation spot. Transparency photographs of young man and woman.
FC239	H Goutail to RK, 22Sep67. From Paris; thanks for kindness and hospitality and visit to laboratories.
FC240	Sten Walles to R&HGK, 29Nov67. Holiday card with photograph of children.
FC241	Auntie B to HGK, 5Apr67. Thanks for letters and slippers; wishes to be visited; hopes R will enjoy retirement.
FC242	Mitsub Ikeda to R&HGK, Dec67. Photographic postcard of son; hope to be visited when next the K’s come to Japan.
FC243	Brian & Jill to R&HGK, Aug67. Postcard from NZ; on world tour; will preach in Melbourn and Sydney.
FC244	Auntie B to R&HGK, 7Dec67. Holiday wishes; wobbly on legs, year since been to a shop, nothing to write about, because nothing happens to her; looks forward to visit and to family letter from MK.
FC245	Maurice & Peggy Taylor to R&HGK, Mar67. At Easter time remembering beingin Rochester two years ago for a white Easter; most memorable in US visit was the tall trees of California; growth of university enrollments; MT retiring next year.
FC246	do. 10Dec67. P must wear a special corset for back ailment; enjoy their travel trailer, not wired for heat and light; hope to visit in US next summer.
FC247	Shigeo Minamis to R&HGK, Dec67. Family picture and holiday greeting; he at Osaka Univ. teaching and researching;
FC248	Koichi Yuta to R&HGK, 18Nov67. Holiday greeting; remembers the snows and cold of Rochester; human relations more satisfactory in US than in Japan.
FC249	Richard K to R&HGK, Xmas67. Photograph of his children to their great-uncle and great-aunt.
FC250	Koichi Yuta to R&HGK, 1Feb67. Thanks for New Year’s gift of Metro. Museum of Art calendar; glad people of US enjoy the art of Japan.
FC251	do., Jan67. Postcard; first blossoms of spring; sent maps of Japan to aid K’s’ next visit;
FC252	Zyun Koana to RK, 13Jan67. Aerial photographic postcard with labelled cities; invites K’s to dinner party in their newly remodelled home.
FC253	Aya Kubota to R&HGK, 30Dec67. Hand painted holiday greeting and thanks for card.
FC254	Arthur & Margery Smith, 25Jul68. Ltrhd of Wray optical works; may need to retire soon as Rank is ready to buy Wray; newspaper clipping re Richard Reason, maker of optical gauging instruments.
FC255	Ethel Abrahams to HGK, 18Nov68. Xmas card & note; [Connection unknown./MLS]
FC256	Susan & Ian Birkenshaw to R&HGK, 20Nov68. Xmas card and family photograph; childrens’ card.
FC257	Denis ____. (nephew) Oct68. Photograph with adopted baby, Anne.
FC258	Elizabeth K to R&HGK, 30Jul68. Leaving Penang for US; details of extensive travel plans.
FC259	Susan (Birkenshaw, niece) to R&HGK, 29Sep68. Thanks for subscription to Scientific American; gave one copy to a Jehovah’s Witness to convince him Man was not created 4000 years ago; are there doorstep evangelists in US?; training children to maths; new baby Stephen came 1Jun; joys of the third child; father doesn’t like babies till they are 6mo; tried cheaper Ilford film but didn’t like it; Kodak colors not realistic but pleasing – “rose-tinted spectacles”; “must be marvelous to work for union-free, strike-free company prepared to do well by pure efficiency”; Ian not happy in his job; forced herself to speak up at meetings; has first-aid certificate.
FC260	Liz (Elizabeth K)to R&HGK, 31Oct68. Post card from San Francisco; on her way across country.
FC261	MK & Florrie to R&HGK, 11Apr68. Announcing death of Auntie B. 23Mar; MK awaiting estate settlement; B left R&HGK a cash legacy.
FC262	Geoff K to R&HGK, Mar68. Postcard from Bangkok; needed to make “panic trip” to Singapore via Moscow.
FC263	MK&F, 13Jan68. Note on env. by RK “MK aged 91+9mths”; M&F now living in Brighton; thanks for Xmas letter; rereads it to Florrie several times, and to other family members; Nat. Geo. magazines appreciated again and again; shopping will have to wait for a favorable conjunction “like the planets”; M walked with two sticks and the help of a neighbor through blizzard to play organ at church, as usual; Elizabeth takes many coloured slides and narrates her travels on tape to go with them; Florrie’s sight impared, reading difficult; each morning, except Sundays, MK and a Miss Salmon (neighbor) play piano duets for 3hr, yesterday was their 250th such meeting; CFL=Christmas Family Letter; CFL, 66 sheets this year, now collated and shipped by seamail; gave copy to his doctor who said “what a wonderful thing I had done to help people 100 years hence to know how an ordinary middle class family had spent part of their time” (MK was quite overcome by this).
FC264	MK to R&HGK, 19Dec68. Thanks for USA stamps and colour photographs; mentions card sent for RK’s 65th birthday; remembers automobile trip years ago when sons’ were excited to see speedometer approach 30mph; CFL may not be published till Feb.; Elizabeth K teaching English to immigrant children, “...hope(s) my children are picking up a bit of English. I am learning quite a lot of Hindustani.”; Bank of England permission needed to send funds to Auntie B’s foreign legators, RK and Brian K. .
FC265	Elizabeth K (niece) to R&HGK, 16Jun68. Thanks for generous gift of money and offer of (what?); May rearrange trip to USA on the “Europa”; still in Malaysia; asks help is funds transfer.
FC266	Z Koana to R&HGK, 26Mar68. Retiring as Professor of Physics at Utokyo, mandatory in 60th year; named Emeritus; family news; son to enter UT; two photographs – his last lecture, and wife.
FC267	S Yonezawa to R&HGK, Aug68. picture postcard announcing plans to marry; coming to Rochester to study; invites to dinner when wife arrives.
FC268	“My Autobiography” & “My life with Hilda G. Conrady (1902- ) holographs, with transcriptions by MLS. Remarkable, rambling document, written in his last years; parts difficult to read; evidence of micrographia?; page order uncertain; tellings and retellings of childhood events. Note on Swedenborgian Church and its teachings. Begins with characteristic modesty, “This may bore you, but it covers most of my childhood memories.”
FC269	Press releases and clippings re RK EK press release 1966 “Kodak Scientist Edits Optics Reference Volumes” refers to 5-volume “Applied Optics and Optical Engineering” EK press release 1968 Dr. Rudolf Kingslake retires at Eastman Kodak” announces W Price as successor. Biographical note on and approved by RK to Gene Richner, who kept the files of Kodak senior managers for use in public relations publications, 26Feb69. contains comments by Glen Matthews. Biographical information, brief version, for EK, 1969. Rochester Democrat&Chronicle, 6Dec51, article and photograph on publication of “Lenses in Photography”. Kodakery, 5Feb70, Photograph with 5 volumes of “Applied Optics and Optical Engineering” , “Retiree Edits Book on Optics”
FC270	Boston (England) letters from childhood Cedric K to RK, 13Apr40. Sends a batch of 13 letters, cards, drawings “Rudolf Klickmann” sent him and his family at home, from Boston, England where RK was sent to live with relatives during an illness of his mother in late 1909. RK is 6 years old. Very charming and precocious. Drawing of sailing ship “Ellen Kristin” being towed by tug in Boston (England) harbor.
FC271	Misc. HGK Correspondence. [H had requested that most of her personal papers be destroyed after her death. Some survive intermingled with R’s, perhaps with her intent/MLS] Alan K to HGK, 7Jul53, postcard. From Camp Maranacook, Readfield, ME., requests medicines, received T-shirts. [Alan K age 14.] Alan K to HGK, 8Jul53. HGK sent him a page of questions with spaces left for answers. He comments on cold weather, need for black tape, attempts at infrared photography, making a canoe paddle, application for fishing license, swimming Cristiano (?) ____ to Alan K, __ ___ 1953, picture postcard of and from Italian steamship Andrea Doria, in envelop with the following: Frances ____ to HGK, 22Mar53. Andrea Doria stationery. Mentions of Bob Hopkins, shows optical connection. Mentions of Alan while visiting in Rochester, but not of David, perhaps because of he was at boarding school at that time. post scriptum from Guliano ______ to R&H, appreciates hospitality and friendship. Martin K to HGK, 2Apr53, air letter. Thanks for box of “eats and drinks” (still shortages even this long after WWII), redecorating home, Joyce to visit from NZ next year, want new minister at Flodden Road church. Susie ____ to HGK, 30May53. Writes from Boston, remembering good times in Rochester; looking forward to seeing film of Accession of Elizabeth II RK to HGK, 13Apr37. Writes from Bonn, Germany of concert in Beethoven Hall. “Xx” by initial signiture. JH Watson to HGK, 4Mar55. Sends Register of Old Students of the royal School of Mines at her request. HJ Fladd to HGK, 23Apr53. Confirms rental of cottage on Canandaigua Lake for 19July to 1Aug. List of photographs in RK’s hand refers to pages (of a scrapbook?) No photographs found to match. List of people’s names in RK’s hand grouped “Mine, Thine, Ours” with causes of deaths of some. List in RK’s hand with numbers from his lecture slide collection, now destroyed by family, related to photographic industry in Rochester. Page in RK’s hand showing geneology of HGK, see AEC in abbreviation list above. Clipping (partial) from Brighton-Pittsford Post, 9Jan69 announcing RK’s retirement from EK. Folder label in RK’s hand “AEC letters – 1929-34.” Folder and letters not found. Visitor’s Pass to view Kodak Park Works issued to Mrs. R Kingslake, 6April33. The pass is printed on a postcard-size sepia photograph of Kodak Park from the air. Signed by EP Farnum (?) Photograph of HGK with Alan (?) about 1940-41 probably in Highland Park, Rochester, NY, at lilac time.
FC272	Memorial Biographies of RK and HGK Optics and Photonics News, May 2003, Vol. 14, No. 5. pp10,11, by BJ Thompson Optical Engineering, May 2003, Vol. 42, No. 5, by DC O’Shea, editor
FC273	Flora Klickmann: From the Crystal Palace to the Flower Patch at Brockweir by David Lasell. FK was RK’s Aunt Flora, noted author of books on gardening, and editor girls’ and ladies’ magazines. This book contains much information about RK’s aunts and uncles on his father’s, Martin Kingslake’s, side, including his brother Brian’s recollections of their Aunt Flora. Chapter 3 especially noteworthy. BJT to Nancy Martin, 13Apr2005. BJT sends the above book and the following photograph. Photograph (actually color office copier copy of a photograph) RK and Richard Kingslake, son of RK’s brother Geoffrey, dated Oct68, but probably the previous summer. Richard held a PhD on the faculty of Univ of Glasgow. Labeled by Una Kingslake (Richard’s mother) “The 2 Dr. R. Kingslakes”
FC274	Kingslake remembrances, RK and HGK, various RK obituary, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 26Feb2003 NM Graver to MLS, email 17Feb2003, 11:34am. Remembers RK commenting on death of son Alan, and the Kingslake Medal. NM Graver to MLS, email 17Feb2003, 5:23pm. Remembers HGK’s driving directions. Rolf Fricke to MLS, email 13Mar2003. Good comments on the probable reason for the Klickmann/Kingslake name change, incorporating Philip Condax’s theory. WH Knox to Pat Souloff, email (7Mar2003) Names contributors to the bookcase for special books on optics on Physics and Astronomy Library, UR. Remembrances of RK by members of The Photographic Historical Society, email 13Mar2003. By John Bloemendaal, Rolf Fricke, Leon Jacobson, Nick Graver, Sharon Bloemendaal, Jim Lorenzo, Alan Kattelle, Frank Calandra, Todd Gustavson

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