Correspondence with and regarding students: students' queries regarding admission to department, placing of students for research, topics for research, etc.

Requests to visit or work in the department and for meetings with Peierls; letters of thanks following visits; Peierls's invitations extended to colleagues abroad for sabbatical leave in the Oxford department. Some scientific correspondence arising. (File includes typescript of a paper on 'The Education of Astonomers', a contribution to a discussion meeting on the topic to be held at the Royal Astronomical Society, prepared by D.E. Blackwell and M.G. Adam, and sent to Peierls for…

Correspondence regarding departmental business: examining, supervision, structure, publications, some correspondence regarding university matters. Invitations and lists of guests for annual Michaelmas Term parties in the department. Correspondence with Registrar regarding leaves of absence and departmental allowances. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 221/E.11, correspondence between Peierls and his secretary during his sabbatical leave from the department in 1967, and MS. Eng. misc. b. 207/C.127…

Correspondence: with J.C. Gunn regarding a proposal to form a Chair of Applied Mathematics at Glasgow, 1954. with R.A. Rankin regarding Scottish secondary school education, 1959. with Th. V. Kanellopoulos regarding the establishment of a School for Physics, Athens, 1961. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 209/C.164.) lengthy letters to Whitehall (and…

Correspondence: with A.G. Watts regarding an interim year between school and university, 1965. with Sir Christopher Cox regarding brain drain in India, 1965. with Sir Harrie Massey regarding overseas students' fees, 1967. with Officers of the Oxford Society for Social Responsibility in Science regarding their policies, 1968. with the…

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding external examining (occasionally includes dissertation reports). Minor correspondence regarding electoral boards.

File of papers relative to examining at Bradford Institute of Technology (Peierls acted as external examiner to the mathematics course for the Diploma in Technology): correspondence regarding meetings, setting of examinations, assessments of questions and of marking, recommendations for awards.

Correspondence with W.H. McCrea (1951) and H.S.W. Massey (1946-1949) regarding their external examining for the Birmingham department. See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 208/C.135 (D.R. Hartree), MS. Eng. misc. b. 209/C.168 (N. Kemmer) and MS. Eng. misc. b. 213/C.254 (M.H.L. Pryce) for further correspondence on the same topic.

Commonwealth Scholarships (Peierls acted as a member of advisory panel fo the awarding committee): correspondence and reports.

Requests from university officials and heads of departments for Peierls's suggestions and advice.