From Professor Eric Laithwaite Imperial College, SW7
29 April 1975
Dear Miss Pick,
I return your interim report, which I have read with great interest. Now I know what you are truly attempting. I myself have a reputation for the use of analogies. I think of magnetic circuits like water flow through a pipe. I think of gyroscopes as being like electric motors and generators, but you may have gone the whole way and taken the Earth itself as a business analogue.
My problem is how to help you best. The scientific world, the business world, the political world, should all know of your ideas. Yet your first report is already too long for any of the learned society proceedings. I could preferably find you a book publisher, but publications would take too long. You need a government commission, no less, to handle something as far-sighted and far-reaching as this.
I do have contacts. I shall try, if this be your wish. If so can you let me have a copy to keep and lend out? I have copied the first 20 pages as a sample to work on, but to copy the whole on an engineering grant would raise eyebrows. I too have my “opposition”!
Who are your “clients”? Tell me what you need from me. Like yourself, I will do “my humanbest”.
Yours Sincerely,
E R Laithwaite
jmp/26 Oct 2016
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