J W Dunne Archive

Aviation Box 1, consisting of boxes containing small paper models of tailless aircraft, photographs of planes and airmen e.g. The Burgess Dunne Hydroaeroplane just leaving the water; folder marked ‘Personal Aeronautic Correspondence’; five photographs of Dunne and H.G. Wells, with a transcript of an extract by Wells on aviation; correspondence including letters by or to the Royal Aero Club and others, and four letters written by Dunne to his father Sir John Hart Dunne in 1907; numerous loose notes, diagrams and calculations; group of letters and documents relating to the Blair Atholl Aeroplane Syndicate; legal papers regarding application for patents [bundled with general correspondence]; miscellaneous typescript and manuscript material including a draft relating to the authority of the Royal Aero Club versus the Aeronautical Society; press cuttings including a bundle relating to the Pterodactyl; printed material including the Aeronautical Journal, 1913; and correspondence relating to Dunne’s later work on aeroplanes during World War II