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Correspondence includes; Letter from A H Carmichael (Director of the Cable Makers Association) to Mr Wates conveying best wishes for future health, 31 October 1957. Letter from Mr Knowles (Chairman of BEAMA) inviting Mr Wates to lunch at the December meeting (in capacity as recently retired member of Council), 19 November 1957. Letter from George Gillespie of The Conservative Club, Glasgow to Mr Wates congratulating him on being made a Companion of the IEE, 26 January 1953. Letter from P S Watson, Manager, South Eastern Electricity Board, to Mr Wates congratulating him on being made a Companion of the IEE, 24 January 1953. Letter from B H Leeson (Director of BEAMA), dated 14 June 1957, conveying his best wishes that Mr Wates was 'back at home', telling him about developments in the electrical industry since Mr Wates had been BEAMA Chairman, and updating Mr wates on individuals that were known to both of them. The letter also mentions the use of the BEAMA Rose Bowl at Cambridge as a font at the christening in the King's Chapel of the daughter (Rosalind) of Dr and Mrs R Coombs. [Note: Mrs Coombs was Anne Blomfield, daughter of Geoff Blomfield, a close frind of Mr Wates]. Letter from B H Leeson, dated 18 July 1957, responding to a letter from Mr Wates. Typescript note (with a reference number related to B H leeson), dated 13 July 1950 regarding the endowment of a Chair of Electrical Engineering at Cambrdige University. The note gives the rationale for the endowment. Typescript note setting how the Chair of Electrical Engineering might be funded by businesses with a suggested breakdown showing which firms might be asked to contribute (with amounts noted based on number of employees) to the total of £85,000 to add to the £15,000 alreqady contributed by English Electric Group.