Dear Mr. Scott, [Ed.: C.P. Scott, the legendary editor of the Manchester Guardian, was a mutual friend of Chaim Weizmann and of then British Prime Minister David Lloyd George]

I am leaving here at 4:15 this afternoon and if I don't hear from you either here or in London at 12, Glenmore Road, Haverstack Hill NW, that I can see Mr. Lloyd George, I shall make no attempt to see him. I shall be in London until Saturday afternoon and any time until then would suit me. Of course I indeed have in London also much work and a meeting could take place then, should we fail this week. But towards the end of next week I would like to proceed to France and Italy and it would be of great importance if I could have seen L.G. by then.

I think it is only right that I should submit to you a brief statement about my own person.

I have studied chemistry in Charlottenburg [Ed.: at the Kaiserliche Technische Hochschule, presently the Technische Universitaet Berlin], took my degree of Sc. D. in Freiburg (Switzerland) [Ed.: also Fribourg: not to be confused with Freiburg, Germany], then became a Privat-Dozent in Geneva under Prof. C. Graebe - one of the fathers of organic synthetic chemistry. After having worked with him for four years both teaching and research I came here ten years ago. I became a lecturer in Org. Chemistry and was Professor Perkin's assistant for many years, conducting both teaching and research in his laboratories. Most of the vacations I spent in the Pasteur Institute, where I work at Biological Chemistry. Prof. Perkin, as you know, left this University for Oxford two years ago. In the same time the Council considered it necessary to develop the subject of Biochemistry here and a small Department was created and I was put in charge of it. In view of the fact that this subject is new and the beginning comparatively small, no Professorship was created but a Readership [Ed.: a Reader in the Uk is roughly equivalent to an Associate Professor in the US.]. (I think the standing and stipend are as good as many professorships here). The course of Chemistry of dyestuffs was also handed over to me as I have work on this subject for a good many years. Profs. Schuster and Dixon would willingly bear out those statements. I have I have published a fair amount of papers in the chemical journals and on the strength of my research, the Degree of D.Sc. of this University was awarded to me and my name is at present up for the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

I am in the Zionist movement since I was 15 and at present I am a member of our Executive. I was born in 1874 in Motol (Province of Grovno, Russia).

Yours very sincerely

Chaim Weizmann