Typed letter from Frederick Lanchester to Robert Lockhart offering his copies of the Royal Society's 'B' proceedings

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In payment for the oatmeal that Lockhart is sending him. Complains again about rationing and states that Lord Woolton [Minister of Food who introduced rationing during the Second World War] 'is a boob' because of his pronouncements on food shortages: 'he is a prize fool and I would like to have him put in a glass case in the Natural History Museum, label "Homo ignorans" but if they were all treated thus they would want a place as big as Whipsnade [zoo]'.