Relating to the Science Museum London as a repository for the Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, and of deposit of Peierls's collection of historical material in the Niels Bohr Library of the American Institute of Physics.

Mainly on proposed book by Peierls in American Institute of Physics series, Masters of Modern Physics.

Inviting Peierls to accept a consultancy in the Theoretical Physics Division. He declined the invitation in 1960. Reasons are given in his autobiography (Bird of Passage, p. 324). When it was renewed in 1963, at a time when those involved in the original affair were no longer with the Authority, he reconsidered his position and accepted.

Administrative correspondence on appointment, renewals, fees, etc.

Correspondence on research problems and publications at Harwell.

Includes correspondence on Peierls's wartime files at Harwell and in the Public Record Office, comments on papers by Peierls and others.

Invitations to lecture and visit under Council auspices, declined after extensive negotiations.

General correspondence on his election to the Academy, donation of books to the library, formal birthday greetings, Peierls's lecture 'Erinnerungen an die Frühzeit der Quantenmekanik', published in the Academy's Yearbook 1990, and draft of lecture.

Relating to meetings and 'Cross-Cultural Encounters'. Peierls was planning to attend a meeting in May 1995.