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Personal and general correspondence

MS. 5985/1

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Title

Personal and general correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. 5985/1

Summary

Correspondence with, or relating to, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and other contacts, mostly of a personal or semi-personal nature, but often including academic or professional matters:

Folder 1: Correspondents A-H, including Barley [Alison], Rex [Allen], David Armstrong, William Armstrong, Elizabeth Ascombe, J.L. Austin, Don [Bachardy], Clive Bell, Isaiah and Aline Berlin, Robert Blake, Nicole Bouchet de Fareins, Denyse de Bourran, Richard Braithwaite, C.D. Broad, Violet Bonham Carter, Nicholas Bruce, John Buxton, Albert Camus, Creste Carvalho, Henry Chadwick, K.A. Citroen, John Cleese, E.E. Cummings and Marion [Moorhouse], Bill and Pussy Deakin, Catherine [Dove], R.H. Dundas, Lindsay Emerson, Ifor Evans, Alfred Ewing, John Findlay, Elizabeth 'Betty' Flower, Hugh Foot, George Forrest, John Foster, Michael Foster, Ernest Gellner, Len Goddard, Fred and Anne Godley, A.S.F. Gow, Nobutoshi Haghihara, J.B.S. Haldane, Stuart [Hampshire], Peter Hardley, William Frances [Hare], Roy Harrod, Herbert Hart, William Hayter, Elizabeth von Hoffmannsthal, Ted [Honderich], Jenny [Hughes], Peter Hughes, Neil Hughes-Onslow, Tristram Hull, Veronica [Hull], Ernest Hutten, Julian Huxley.

Folder 2: Correspondents J-W, including Janetta [Jackson], Charlotte Jennings, Kallin, T.C. Keely, S.V. Keeling, W.C. Kneale, Kreisel, Casimir Lewy, Susan A. Lynden, Wolf Mankowitz, J.C. Masterman, William Somerset Maugham, Kathleen [McColgan], Robert McLellan, A.D. Momigliano, Charles [Morgan], Luke Nasmyth, Herbert Orr, John Parry, Frances [Partridge], Stephen Perry, Karl Popper, Alex J.D. Porterus, Raphael Powell, Henry Price, Anthony and Marcelle Quinton, Jenny [Rees], Margorie [Rees], Joyce Reeves, Lincoln [Reis], Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle, S.A. Sapre, Itaru Shimazu, Jo [Saxe], Meyer Shapiro, R.B. Silvers, Edith Sitwell, Harold Solomon, Ernest Stahl, Anthony Steel, Peter F. Strawson, Oliver Stutchbury, Hugh [Trevor-Roper], Marcel Tricon, Herman Leo van Breda, B. Williams, Gaspard Willis, John Wisdom, N.D. Worswick, Armine Wright, John Wright.

Folder 3: Correspondents A-Y (only first names known), including Ali, Alice, Anthony, B. Basil, Babeth[?], Bernard, Bert, Brita, C., Celia, Cindy and Graham, Cynthia, Dagmar, Douglas, Eric, Gael, Gillian, Graham, Hazel, Humphrey, J., James, Janet, Jay, Jean, John, Julia, Kathryn, Kenneth, Margaret, Margery, Marie Alice, Martin, Mary, Mary Carol, Michael, Nick, P./ Poll, Pauline, Penny, Philip, Philippa, Raymond, Raymundus, Richard, Robert, Ronald, Siri, Theodora, Yoko.

Folder 4: Correspondents not identified; fragments of correspondence and miscellaneous.

Date

1947-1990, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (4 folders)

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Archive of Alfred Jules Ayer

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