A narrative chronology entitled 'Peierls's War Years' has been extracted from correspondence with Charles Weiner and listed here for ease of reference (see also MS. Eng. misc. b. 197/A.20).

MS. essay written at school on 'Today's school from the point of view of the pupil' (in German), 1923-1924 MS. notes for a seminar given in Munich (in German), 1927 Offer from Professor Dr. W. Lenz of an assistantship in the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg. (MS. letter in German.) Peierls provisionally accepted the offer and then subsequently withdrew his acceptance when it became clear that Hitler would come to power in Germany, 1933

Includes Fellowship of the Institute of Physics, 1943 C.B.E., 1946 Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm, U.S.A., 1947 Royal Medal, Royal Society, 1959 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1962 Honorary Associate, College of Advanced Technology, Birmingham (now University of Aston), 1963 …

Includes D.Sc. University of Liverpool, 1960 D.Sc. University of Birmingham, 1967 D.Sc. University of Edinburgh, 1969 Also includes correspondence regarding arrangements for ceremonies and dinners, and letters of congratulation.

Letters of congratulation on the award of the Royal Medal by the Royal Society.

Correspondence with Oxford and Birmingham Universities regarding offer and acceptance of the Wykeham Chair of Physics, Oxford.

Letters of congratulation on Peierls's election to the Wykeham Chair.

Correspondence with the Academy regarding arrangements for the presentation of the medal, the text of Peierls's reply at the ceremony on 24 November, and a printed report of the meeting. Correspondence regarding arrangements to give a seminar in Leiden.

Letters of congratulation on the award of the Max Planck Medal. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 220/E.5 for correspondence regarding travel arrangements to Hamburg to receive the Medal.)

Congratulatory letters written by Peierls and some replies from recipients (in date order).

Includes letters of thanks, invitations, replies to appeals, requests for interviews, etc.

Includes letters of thanks, invitations, replies to appeals, requests for interviews, etc. Includes correspondence with Mark Boxer of The Times who drew a caricature of Peierls for New College that is also reproduced on the cover of the retirement symposium volume. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 198/A.25.)

Correspondence regarding various social invitations, valedictory lectures, visits, etc.

Correspondence with airlines, shops and organisations regarding poor service, invoicing errors and the like.

Correspondence regarding a gift for Madame S. Bonnevay, widow of Georges Bonnevay who had worked in Birmingham with Peierls, 1959-1961. Includes a letter sent by Peierls to Bonnevay's colleagues, replies from contributors, letters of thanks from Mme. Bonnevay. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 203/C.38.)

Contains Correspondence with W. Stanners regarding modern warfare and its morality (lengthy letter from Peierls on this subject), 1946. Correspondence with Alexander Sachs regarding his testimony before the US Senate Committee on Atomic Energy, 1946 'I am not perturbed', statement by Peierls for publication in the Sunday Express in refutation of its article of 29 October…

Contains Correspondence with H.V. Rowley regarding the history of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, 1958. Correspondence with Franz Bergel regarding apartheid in South African universities, 1959. Correspondence with Mrs. Nancy Arms regarding her proposed biography of Sir Francis Simon (published as A Prophet in Two Countries), 1960.…

Contains Letter from John Wheeler regarding the 'sources for the history of quantum physics' project, 1962. (Peierls was interviewed by John Heilbron in June 1963 for this history.) Correspondence with Walter Schneir regarding the Los Alamos project, Klaus Fuchs and the Soviet nuclear weapons programme, 1961-1963. Correspondence with Ronald Clark regarding the…

Contains Correspondence with Margaret Gowing regarding research for her book Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939-45; extensive comments and recollections by Peierls, 1961-1963. Includes extracts from a June 1963 memorandum to Mrs. Gowing by Sir Henry Dale regarding British scientists' attitudes to the use of the bombs against the Japanese. Brief…

Contains Correspondence with Malcolm D. Ferrier regarding the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, 1965. Correspondence with A.N. Bryan-Brown regarding a speech about V. Weisskopf (the Latin oration on the occasion of his honorary degree from Oxford where Bryan-Brown was Public Orator), 1965. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 216/C.322 and MS. Eng. misc. b. 216/C.330. Correspondence…