Reference code: GB-0033-BRI
Title: Karl Britton Papers
Dates of creation: 1930-1983
Extent: 1 metre
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Karl Britton (1909-1983)
Language: English
Karl William Britton (1909-1983) was born in Scarborough, third of four children of James Nimmo Britton, a Scottish Baptist minister, and his wife Elsie, neé Slater, from the Midlands. The majority of his childhood was spent in Clapham and
Southend-on-Sea. He won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, and read history before switching to philosophy. He was President of the Union Society in 1930/31. He subsequently published his recollections of Cambridge, of Wittgenstein and of
C.D Broad. After graduating he won another scholarship to study for an MA degree at Harvard University. Britton’s first lectureship was at Aberystwyth, but by the end of 1940 he was teaching at University College, Swansea (later to become Swansea
University). He tried twice to join the army during the war but was rejected on medical grounds. Instead he worked for the Home Office and, when the war ended, resumed his former job at Swansea.
In 1951 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at King’s College Newcastle Upon Tyne, where he remained for the rest of his career. During his tenure there he held several university offices for the University of Durham and then the
University of Newcastle (after 1963), including Dean of Arts, Public Orator, and Chairman of the Library Committee. He retired in 1975. He was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Durham in 1976.
Britton’s philosophical writings included;
Communication: a Philosophical Study of Language, 1939,
a study of J.S. Mill, 1953, 2nd ed. 1970, and
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, 1969, as well as
numerous articles and reviews on a wide variety of topics. He spoke several times at the Aristotelian Society, had many published entries in Mind, and was invited to write entries for the Encyclopaedia Britannica on several philosophical topics. He
lectured and wrote extensively on the topics of moral philosophy, language and meaning, philosophy connected to the poetry of Wordsworth, and religion. He was considered an expert on the works on J.S. Mill.
His interests outside his profession were religion, art and literature. At quite a young age, possibly while still at Cambridge, he switched from the Baptists to the Church of England, but did not formally join the latter until after his mother
had died (c.1957). He was a member of a society which campaigned to retain the 1662 Prayer Book.
He was a great reader of poetry, especially Wordsworth (on whose work he lectured), and of novels, especially Hardy, Henry James, Scott, numerous modern novelists such as Susan Hill and Iris Murdoch, American campus novels and British detective
stories. He had a strong interest in art, particularly in painting, his favourites being Constable, Gainsborough and other landscape painters and the Pre-Raphaelites. He corresponded with a Swiss painter of religious subjects called Willi Freiss. He
had some talent himself for drawing and painting, this was mainly linked to sketching landscapes on holiday though in some of his college notebooks there is the rare sketch of a lecturer or classmate. He had no interest at all in music and claimed
to be tone-deaf, although this was not literally true.
There are few references to politics in these papers, although Britton was active in a small way in politics up to about 1960 and remained interested in political trends all his life, voting for the Labour Party.
The papers are primarily concerned with Britton's philosophical work, but the early files also include some correspondence, etc. which he received as President of the Cambridge University Union Society, 1930/31. Britton's publications included
Communication: a philosophical study of language (London, 1939),
John Stuart Mill (London, 1953; 2nd ed. 1970), and
Philosophy and the meaning of life
(London, 1969), as well as numerous articles and reviews. The papers include correspondence, notebooks, files of his own published and unpublished works, reports (chiefly for Cambridge University Press) on other authors' manuscripts, and
recollections of Cambridge mentors and contemporaries including C.D. Broad, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Kim Philby.
Given by Professor Britton's daughter, Miss Margaret Britton, 1993, Acc No Misc.1993/94:19.
Held by the family.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Sub-Librarian, Special Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist
where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
BRI 1: Notebooks, spanning his career 1931-1981.
BRI 2: Correspondence, speeches and reports 1930-1983.
BRI 3: Publications, undated and 1934-1959. Offprints, where available and typescripts. Arranged chronologically, but dating may not be accurate.
BRI 4: Publications, undated and 1960-1983. Offprints, where available and typescripts. Arranged chronologically, but dating may not be accurate.
BRI 5: Unpublished works and lectures, arranged chronologically.
BRI 6: Unpublished works and lectures, topically arranged.
Outline typescript list expanded into WORD by Jennifer Leach 2017-2019 and uploaded to EAD by Michael Stansfield, February 2019
The original integrity of the collection has been maintained
None anticipated
BRI 1
Notebooks (contains 11 notebooks)
BRI 1/1-5
Notebooks on the Metaphysics lectures of Professor G.E.Moore
Labelled 'Moore I, II, III, IV and V' on separate blank sheets inside.
Titled: Metaphysics. Prof Moore with volume number (1 to 5 in Roman numerals) and date on first page of each notebook. Refers to Professor George Edward Moore, professor of philosophy at Cambridge 1925 – 1939.
Dated according to university terms (e.g. Michaelmas, Lent and May).
'Karl Britton 12 Park Street Cambridge' written on inside front covers.
Majority of notes set out on right hand page with additional notes on left hand page.
5 notebooks, small, navy cover with maroon spine, some discolouration; stationer – Weatherhead & Son, 16 Peas Hill, Cambridge
BRI 1/1 Michaelmas 1931 (October – December 1931)
Majority of notes in dark blue/black ink (some in bright green interspersed throughout).
In the second half of the book the top of the left hand page contains a summary title of the notes on the right hand page.
Inserted: 1 Cambridge Union Society printed paper with a sketch and the initials D.H.G. inserted towards the back.
Small notebook, 60f
BRI 1/2 Michaelmas 1931 (October – December 1931
Majority of notes in dark blue/black ink (some in bright green interspersed throughout).
In general, the top of the left hand page contains the summary title of the notes on the right hand page.
Sketches on the back inside cover with names, possibly C.D. Broad.
Small notebook, 60f
BRI 1/3 Lent Term 1932 (January – March 1932)
Begins in dark blue/black ink but most of the notes are in light blue (some in bright green interspersed throughout).
Occasional summary titles at the top of the left hand page relating to the notes on the right hand page.
Inserted: 2 sheets Cambridge Union Society printed paper with notes in green ink on both sides near the centre of the book.
Small notebook, 60f
BRI 1/4 Lent & May Terms 1932 (January - June 1932)
Begins in light blue ink with a couple of pages in black but switches entirely to the bright green towards the end and continues in that colour. Still with the bright green notes interspersed through the other colours as well.
Small notebook, 60f
BRI 1/5 May Term 1932 (April – June 1932)
Entirely in bright green ink.
Includes several sets of notes on different publications, sketches and poetry dated April 1933 in final third of book.
Small notebook, 60f, some damage to the back cover
BRI 1/6 February 1934
Notebook on the lectures of Clarence Lewis on Kant and Raphael Demos on Plato.
Labelled Lewis + Demos on a separate blank sheet inside. Lewis refers to Clarence Irving Lewis, lecturer at Harvard 1920 – 1953. Demos refers to Raphael Demos, lecturer at Harvard 1919 – 1962.
Loose marbled front cover titled: Harvard University Graduate School History of Philosophy Lewis on Kant Demos on Plato Karl Britton Winthrop I42 Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow.
First page repeats title of lecture course and expands the address: Karl Britton I42 Winthrop House Cambridge MA.
Back cover has pencil notes in top left hand corner 50 cents.
Majority of notes set out on right hand page with additional notes on left hand page. Majority written in green ink. Numbered top right and left corners for right and left hand pages. 1-47 for Lewis, only numbered up to 9 for Demos. 26 pages in
marks change between Lewis lectures to Demos lectures.
Includes several sketches throughout, including one of a Mr Paul Fastworth.
Notebook, board covers (detached), loose marbled paper front and back covers, no spine cover or fabric, 65f
BRI 1/7 [1930s]
Notebook on the lectures of Professor Henry Sheffer
Labelled Sheffer on a separate blank sheet inside. Titled Professor Sheffer on the first page. Refers to Henry Maurice Sheffer, taught at Harvard 1916-1952.
Majority of notes set out on right hand page with additional notes on left hand page. Majority of notes to the right additional notes to the left.
Contains a loose sheet in blue ink printed with University College of Swansea. Department of Education. Singleton. Port Swansea. Professor W. M Williams MA. Telephone 5059. Several loose sheets between at the back. Including one set of 10 loose
inside one folded all written on.
Notebook, badly damaged spine, holes in top three pages, red sticker from “Bob” Slates’ College Supply Shop 8 Holyoke St., Cambridge on first page bottom left hand corner, 62f + 13 loose leaves including folded
sheet
BRI 1/8 20 October 1932 - 4 March 1933
Notebook on the lectures of Professor Alfred Whitehead, labelled Whitehead I on a separate sheet of paper, titled Professor Whitehead on first page. Refers to Alfred North Whitehead, taught at Cambridge 1884 – 1910, professor at Harvard 1924 –
1937.
Majority of notes set out on the right hand page with additional notes in the left hand page. Numbered 7 – 24 in the top right of the right hand page. Includes sketches and Latin mottoes in final third of the book including one inserted sheet
towards the back.
Notebook, 62f + 1 loose sheet
BRI 1/9 22 April 1933 - 5 February 1934
Notebook on the lectures of Professor Alfred Whitehead, labelled Whitehead II on separate sheet of paper, titled: Whitehead’s Lectures Second Volume. Refers to Alfred North Whitehead, taught at Cambridge 1884 – 1910, professor at Harvard 1924 –
1937.
About a third written with majority of notes to the right and additional notes to the left, changes to use of both sides after that.
Includes: Whitehead’s Lectures on metaphysics (2nd series), Whitehead’s Seminars on Logic, (Prof. Whitehead, H. M. Sheffer, Willard Quinn and Lewis Feuer), Lewis’s Lectures on Formal Logic and by Analytical Implementation: A Note. Mr. W. T Parry.
Also includes inserted University of Swansea exam paper 1937 and 6 leaves of folded notepaper with some water damage in the final third of the book.
Notebook, detached back cover, 62f + 7 separate sheets
BRI 1/10 February 1946 - 9 June 1953
Britton’s personal notebook, labelled Philosophical Commonplace Book 1946 – on separate sheet inside. titled: Philosophical Commonplace Book 1946.
Bottom right of first page: KW Britton (1) University College Swansea 1937-1951 (2) King’s College Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 1951.
Majority in dark blue ink. Writing on both sides of both pages. Pages numbered in top left and right hand corners.
Contains notes on a variety of philosophical topics, each new subject written as an underlined title.
Separate sheets of notes inserted in the second half of the book.
Large notebook, green marbled cover, red spine. some damage to both marbled covers and spine, 100f (77f written on) + 2 separate sheets
BRI 1/11 14 December 1953 - 23 October 1979
No label. Faint impression of KWB’s signature on front. Inside of first page titled: Notebook Karl Britton December 1953 Longbenton October 1964 Harthorpe, Riding Mill, Northumberland.
Inside first page under title sticker for Stanford Mann Limited Stationer 72 – 73 New Street, Birmingham. Under sticker written From JNB at Birmingham School of Art.
Writing on both sides of the paper, majority in blue. Pages numbered in top right and left corners. Includes separate sheet with notes on the back of a folded congregation leaflet for 24/09/1955 at front of book.
Contains notes on a variety of philosophical topics, each new subject written as an underlined title.
Large hard board cover notebook, maroon cover and spine, some damage to spine and cover edges, and some damage to first few pages at front possibly mildew, 138f + 1 folded leaflet.
BRI 2
Correspondence, speeches and reports.
BRI 2/1 1930 - 1931
Cambridge Union Society
Paper file
BRI 2/1/1 1 October 1930
Cambridge Union Society calendar, Michaelmas term 1930 – Easter term 1931
Paper pamphlet, 2f
BRI 2/1/2 5 May 1931
Programme for Easter term 3rd debate.
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/1/3 19 May 1931
Programme for Easter term 5th debate.
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/1/4 26 May 1931
Programme for Easter term 6th debate.
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/1/5 2 June 1931
Programme for Easter term 7th debate.
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/1/6 9 June 1931
Programme for Easter term 8th debate.
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/1/7 11 March 1930
Committee Dinner menu with names of speakers, autographed.
Card, 2f
BRI 2/1/8 11 March 1931
Committee Dinner menu with names of speakers, autographed.
Card, 2f
BRI 2/1/9 1 December 1931
Committee Dinner menu with names of speakers, autographed
Card, 2f
BRI 2/1/10 8 May 1931
Cutting from
The Granta with cartoon (by Alastair Cooke) and written profile of KWB (by EWittgensteinyn Jones).
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/1/11-12 11 June 1930
Letter from Mansfield D. Forbes at Finella, Queens Road to KWB congratulating him on his appointment as Secretary of the Union.
Paper, 1f+ envelope
BRI 2/1/13 19 October 1930
Letter from Mansfield D. Forbes at Finella, Queens Road to KWB regarding tickets for a debate.
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/1/14-15 21 October 1930
Letter from Mansfield D. Forbes at Finella, Queens Road to KWB in thanks for tickets.
Paper, 1f + envelope
BRI 2/1/16-17 30 April 1931
Letter from F. A. Fitzpatrick at 23 Bateman Street Cambridge to KWB regarding selection of a debating team for Argentina, largely on grounds of sporting ability.
Paper, 2f
BRI 2/1/18-117 December 1930 - November 1931
Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at the Cambridge Union.
BRI 2/1/18: 2 December 1930: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/19: 5 December 1930: Paper, 1f. Baron Pentland – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/20: 7 December 1930: Paper, 1f. Viscount Ennismore – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/21: 12 December 1930: Paper, 1f. G.D. H. Cole – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/22: 16 December 1930: Paper, 1f. E. W. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/23: 18 December 1930: Paper, 1f. Viscount Brentford – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/24: 26 December 1930: Paper, 1f. G. D. H. Cole – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/25: 2 January 1931: Alfred Zimmin – Acceptance. Written in ink on headed paper. 1 leaf.
BRI 2/1/26: 7 January 1931: Paper, 1f. Sir Edward Parry – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/27: 8 January 1931: Postcard, 1f. J. B. Priestley – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/28: 11 January 1931: Paper, 1f. Edgar Wallace – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/29: 23 January 1931: Paper, 2f. H. H. Henson, Bishop of Durham – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/30: 23 January 1931: Paper, 1f. Alfred Zimmin – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/31: 24 January 1931: Paper, 1f. Alfred Zimmin – Confirmation of dates.
BRI 2/1/32: 28 January 1931: Paper, 1f. Sir Oswald Mosley – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/33: 3 February 1931: Owen Seaman – Refusal. Typewritten on headed paper, signed in ink. 1 leaf.
BRI 2/1/34: 6 February 1931: Paper, 1f. Humbert Wolfe – Consideration.
BRI 2/1/35: 9 February 1931: Paper, 1f. Humbert Wolfe – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/36: 16 February 1931: Paper, 2f. R. W. Postgate – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/37: 16 February 1931: Paper, 1f. Patrick Devlin – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/38: 20 February 1931: Paper, 1f. Basil Maine – Request for dates.
BRI 2/1/39: 25 February 1931: Paper, 1f. Edgar Wallace – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/40: 27 February 1931: Postcard, 1f. A. P. Herbert – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/41: 28 February 1931: Paper, 1f. T. R. Glover – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/42: 9 March 1931: paper, 1f. C. R. Fay – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/43: 18 March 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/44: 3 April 1931: Paper, 1f. R. A. Knox – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/45: 4 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Request for dates.
BRI 2/1/46: 11 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Patrick Devlin – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/47: 12 April 1931: Paper, 2f. E. V. Knox – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/48: 13 April 1931: Postcard, 1f. Baron Ponsonby – Request for details.
BRI 2/1/49: 13 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Ennismore – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/50: 13 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Norman Angell – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/51: 15 April 1931: Paper, 1f. J. M. Keynes – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/52: 15 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Baron Melchett – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/53: 18 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Rutzen – Confirmation.
BRI 2/1/54: 20 April 1931: Postcard, 1f. Aldous Huxley – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/55: 21 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Baron Melchett – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/56: 21 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Ennismore – Apologies.
BRI 2/1/57: 21 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Geoffrey Wilson – Request for KWB to speak.
BRI 2/1/58: 22 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Henry Barnes – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/59: 22 April 1931: Paper, 2f. C. R. Fay – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/60: 23 April 1931: Paper, 1f. T. R. Glover – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/61: 24 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Hugh Walpole – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/62: 24 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Ernest Benn – Provisional Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/63: 29 April 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Request for details and dates.
BRI 2/1/64: 30 April 1931: Paper, 1f. James Maxton – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/65: 2 May 1931: Paper, 2f. H. H. Henson, Bishop of Durham – Withdrawal.
BRI 2/1/66: 2 May 1931: Paper, 1f. G. D. H. Cole – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/67: 3 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Ennismore – Comments on debate outcomes.
BRI 2/1/68: 3 May 193: Paper, 2f. E. V. Knox – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/69-70: 4 May 1931: Paper, 1f + envelope. Malcolm MacDonald – Refusal and envelope.
BRI 2/1/71: 4 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Refusal to speak against, request to speak for the motion.
BRI 2/1/72: 5 May 1931: Paper, 1f. E. V. Lucas – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/73: 5 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Basil Maine – Request for dates.
BRI 2/1/74: 5 May 1931: Paper, 2f. H. H. Henson, Bishop of Durham – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/75: 5 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Lord Hugh Cecil – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/76-77: 6 May 1931: Paper, 2f. A. Leslie Hutchinson – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/78: 6 May 1931: Paper, 2f. Shapurji Saklatvala – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/79: 6 May 1931: Paper, 1f. C. R. Fay – Request for details.
BRI 2/1/80: 8 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Ennismore – Provisional Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/81: 8 May 1931: Paper, 2f. Shapurji Saklatvala – Acceptance and suggestions for opponents.
BRI 2/1/82: 8 May 1931: Paper, 1f. C. [Delisle?] Brown – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/83: 7 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/84: 8 May 1931: Paper, 2f. Harold (?) – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/85: 10 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Ennismore – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/86: 10 May 1931: Paper, 1f. P. G. Wodehouse – Explanation of lack of reply.
BRI 2/1/87: 12 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Ernest Benn – Request for details.
BRI 2/1/88: 13 May 1931: Paper, 1f. John Galsworthy – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/89: 14 May1931: Paper, 1f. Ernest Benn – Thanks and Declination of hospitality.
BRI 2/1/90: 14 May 1931: Paper, 2f. J. M. Keynes – Apologies.
BRI 2/1/91: 14 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Ian Hay Booth – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/92: 16 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Eoin O’Mahony – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/93: 17 May 1931: Paper, 2f. Shapurji Saklatvala – Further suggestion of opponents and thanks on behalf of son.
BRI 2/1/94: 18 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Compton Mackenzie – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/95: 19 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Osbert Sitwell – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/96-97: 20 May 1931: Paper, 2f. Oliver Lodge – Refusal. Marked by rust in top right hand corner.
BRI 2/1/98: 20 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Ennismore – Thanks and comments on the debate.
BRI 2/1/99: 20 May 1931: Paper, 1f. M. H. Dobb – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/100: 21 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Shapurji Saklatvala – Acceptance of dinner and request for further details regarding dress code.
BRI 2/1/101: 22 May 1931: Paper, 1f. John Buchan – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/102: 24 May 1931: Paper, 2f. Alec Waugh – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/103: 27 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Randolph Churchill – Acceptance and request for further details.
BRI 2/1/104: 28 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Request for confirmation.
BRI 2/1/105: 29 May 1931: Paper, 1f. Eoin O’Mahony – Thanks.
BRI 2/1/106: 2 June 1931: Paper, 1f. Viscount Lytton – Thanks for confirmation.
BRI 2/1/107: 2 June 1931: Paper, 1f. Siegfried Sassoon – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/108: 12 November 1931: Paper, 1f. Baron Ponsonby – Request for amendment to the debate title.
BRI 2/1/109: 18 November 1931: Paper, 1f. J. C. Squire – Acceptance.
BRI 2/1/110: undated : Paper, 1f. John Davenport – Apologies and withdrawal.
BRI 2/1/111: undated: Paper, 1f. [Clemence?] – John Davenport sent down so will not be speaking.
BRI 2/1/112: undated: Paper, 2f. Shanti S. Dhavan – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/113: undated (before 2 June 1931): Card, 1f. K. C. [?]-Down – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/114: undated (before 9 June 1931): Paper, 1f. W. R. Inge – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/115: undated: Paper, 1f. David [Leal?] – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/116: undated: Paper, 1f. Beverley Nichols – Refusal.
BRI 2/1/117: undated: Paper, 1f. unsigned and unfinished – Refusal.
Paper file
BRI 2/2 1930 - 1983
Life in Cambridge – Miscellaneous material relating to KWB’s life and contacts in Cambridge (excluding Wittgenstein and the Union Society) Arranged by date.
BRI 2/2/1: 25 October 1930: Paper, 1f. R. C. Sheriff to KWB – Regarding arrangements for Sheriff to speak on the subject of war literature.
BRI 2/2/2: 19 February 1953: Paper, 1f. C. D. Broad to KWB – Questioning a comment made by KWB on Francis Bacon.
BRI 2/2/3: 3 June 1960: Paper, 1f. C. D. Broad to KWB – Reply to congratulations on receiving Nicholas Murray Butler medal and discussion of Cambridge colleges.
BRI 2/2/4 - BRI 2/2/6: 20 January 1978: Paper, 3f. Bryce Gallie to KWB – Frank assessment of C.D. Broad’s character to assist KWB in writing his obituary.
BRI 2/2/7: 27 January 1978: Paper, 1f. Bryce Gallie to KWB – More comments on C.D. Broad.BRI 2/2/8 – 2/2/10: 14 April 1980: Paper, 3f. Gordon (? ) to KWB – Writing from Queen’s College Birmingham. Comments on KWB’s obituary for C.D. Broad and
general comments on life at Queen’s College Birmingham.
BRI 2/2/11 – BRI 2/2/12: 23 July 2980: Paper, 2f. Lewis S. Feuer to KWB – Comments on KWB’s obituary of C. D. Broad.
BRI 2/2/13 – BRI 2/2/15: 22 October 1982: Paper, 3f. “Recollections: Cambridge 1928 – 32”. Offprint of article by KWB in The Cambridge Review.
BRI 2/2/16: 24 November 1982: Paper, 1f. Bernard Crowther to KWB – Thanking KWB for sending a copy of “Recollections” and his own reminiscences including a claim to have witnessed Kim Philby’s recruitment to the Russian secret service.
BRI 2/2/17: 24 November 1982: Paper, 1f. Robin C. O. Matthews to KWB – Thanking KWB for sending a copy of “Recollections” and comments on changing undergraduate life.
BRI 2/2/18 – 2/2/24: 1 January 1983: Paper, 7f. Charles Garton to KWB – Thanks to KWB for sending a copy of “Recollections” and his own comments and reminiscences of life at Cambridge.
BRI 2/2/25: 3 January 1983: Paper, 1f. Charles Garton to KWB – Philosophical comments on “Recollections” and “Philosophy and the Meaning of Life”.
BRI 2/2/26 – BRI 2/2/27: 19 January 1983: Paper, 2f. KWB’s to Charles Garton - reply to Garton’s letters (BRI 2/2/18 – 2/2/25).
BRI 2/2/28: 24 January 1983: Paper, 1f. Charles Garton to KWB – Passing on George L. Kustas’ comments on “Recollections”.
BRI 2/2/29: 31 January 1983: Paper, 1f. Alistair Cooke to KWB – Thanks for sending a copy of “Recollections” and comments on how Cambridge, University and town, has changed.
Paper file
BRI 2/3 1938
Correspondence regarding “Communication”.
BRI 2/3/1 – BRI 2/3/3: 1 June 1938: Paper, 3f. Albert ? to KWB – Letter covering comments on “Communication” with several suggestions for further reading.
BRI 2/3/4 – BRI 2/3/9: undated assumed to be sent with covering letter 1 June 1938: Paper, some slight damage to top edge of pages, 6f. Albert ? to KWB – Comments on “Communication”.
BRI 2/3/10 – BRI 2/3/11: 14 June 1938: Paper, 2f. Albert ? to KWB – More comments on further reading and quotations for “Communication”.
BRI 2/3/12: 21 June 1938: Paper, 1f. Albert ? to KWB – Apologies for forgetting to post back a map and comments on several philosophy books.
BRI 2/3/13 – BRI 2/3/14: 21 August 1938: Paper, 2f. L. Susan Stebbing to KWB – Covering letter for comments on “Communication”.
BRI 2/3/15 – BRI 2/3/26: undated assumed to be sent with covering letter 21 August 1938: Paper, some slight damage to top edge of pages, 12f. L. Susan Stebbing to KWB – Comments and criticisms on “Communication” additional comments in black on
the reverse of BRI 2/3/17 – BRI 2/3/18, possibly in a different hand.
BRI 2/3/27 – BRI 2/3/32: 26 August 1938: Paper, some damage to top left hand corners, 6f. Max Black to KWB – Comments and criticisms on “Communication”.
Paper file
BRI 2/4 1947 - 1968
Material regarding J. S. Mill.
4 paper files
BRI 2/4/1-21 1947 - 1968
Correspondence with publishers
BRI 2/4/1 – BRI 2/4/2: 17 July 1947: Paper, 2f. KWB to A. J. Ayer – Regarding preliminary idea for book on Mill.
BRI 2/4/3: 28 December 1947(?): Paper, 1f. KWB to A. J. Ayer – Update on progress of book, request for more information on series.
BRI 2/4/4: 6 January 1948: Paper, 1f. A. J. Ayer to KWB – Providing list of books to be in the series, explanation of royalties and advice on length and tone.
BRI 2/4/5: 22 October 1948: Paper, 1f. Eunice E. Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.) to KWB – Regarding contract to Penguin Books Ltd.
BRI 2/4/6: 29 October 1948: Paper, 1f. KWB to Eunice E. Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.) – Requesting clarification on the subject of royalties.
BRI 2/4/7: 13 December 1948: Paper, torn bottom right hand edge, 1f. Eunice E. Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.) to KWB – Clarification with regard to royalties and further questions on projected length of book.
BRI 2/4/8: 20 January 1949: Paper, 1f. KWB to Eunice E. Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.) – Thanks for clarification and questions about suitable length of book.
BRI 2/4/9: 21 March 1949: Paper, 1f. Eunice E. Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.) to KWB – Clarification on length of book and royalties.
BRI 2/4/10: 30 January 1950: Paper, 1f. KWB to A. J. Ayer – Confirmation of completion of book and request for confirmation of his receiving it.
BRI 2/4/11: 6 February 1950: Paper, 1f. Eunice E. Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.) to KWB – Thanks for letter regarding completion of book.
BRI 2/4/12: 1 February 1950: Paper, 1f. A. J. Ayer to KWB – Thanks for manuscript.
BRI 2/4/13: 19 July 1950: Paper, 1f. A. J. Ayer to KWB – Comments on manuscript.
BRI 2/4/14: 4 February 1969: Paper, some rust marks top left hand corner, 1f. Robert Hutchinson (Dover Publication Inc.) to KWB – Explanation of corrections.
BRI 2/4/15: 29 July 1966: Paper, some rust marks top left hand corner, 1f. KWB to B. Keen (Penguin Books Ltd.) – List of corrections for new edition.
BRI 2/4/16: 6 March 1968: Paper, some rust marks top left hand corner, 1f. Clarence C. Strowbridge (Dover Publication Inc.) to KWB – Request to reprint.
BRI 2/4/17 - BRI 2/4/18: Undated but after 6 March 1968 and before 4 February 1969: Paper, some rust marks top left hand corner, 2f. KWB to Clarence C. Strowbridge (Dover Publication Inc.) - List of corrections.
BRI 2/4/19: 13 March 1968: Paper, some rust marks top left hand corner, 1f. KWB to Mr. Pevsner (Penguin Books Ltd.) – Asking about objection to the book being reprinted elsewhere.
BRI 2/4/20: undated: Paper, 1f. List of corrections.
BRI 2/4/21: undated: Paper, some rust damage at three isolated points, 1f. Amended section of manuscript.
Paper file
BRI 2/4/22-94 1953 - 1965
Correspondence regarding Mill MSS
BRI 2/4/22: 2 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Helen Darbishire to KWB - concerning copyright of MS J.S. Mill.
BRI 2/4/23 – BRI 2/4/24: 4 October 1957(?): Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 2f. KWB to Helen Darbishire – Regarding the history of the MS and possibility of Oxford University Press being the owners.
BRI 2/4/25: 9 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Helen Darbishire to KWB – Further information on possibility of seeing MS.
BRI 2/4/26: 16 October 1957: Paper, 1f. Helen Darbishire to KWB – Still awaiting news of what to do with MS.
BRI 2/4/27 – BRI 2/4/27a: 23 November 1957: Paper, 2f. Anna J. Mill to KWB – Concerning finding the owners of J. S. Mill MS and general points on work on Mill.
BRI 2/4/28: 29 November 1957: Paper, 1f. KWB to Norton – Asking about literary executors and heirs of Harold Laski.
BRI 2/4/29 – BRI 2/4/30: 30 November 1957: Paper, 2f. KWB to Anna J. Mill – Regarding his attempts to find Laski’s literary executors and possible owners of the manuscript.
BRI 2/4/31: 2 December 1957: Paper, 1f. Helen Darbishire to KWB – Suggestion that KWB begin to pursue official enquires about MS.
BRI 2/4/32: undated: Paper, 1f. KWB to Mrs. Laski – Draft of letter, on Macmillam Company publicity paper, to Laski’s family to ask about ownership of manuscript and permission to publish.
BRI 2/4/33: 9 December 1957: Paper, 1f. Mrs. Laski to KWB – Giving permission to publish MS.
BRI 2/4/34: 11 December 1957: Paper, 1f. KWB to Anna. J. Mill – Describing correspondence with Mrs. Laski and plans for his use of MS.
BRI 2/4/35: 11 December 1957: Paper, 1f. KWB to Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders – Request for information on whether London School of Economics could be the owner of MS.
BRI 2/4/36: 13 December 1957: Paper, 1f. Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders to KWB – Regarding who to ask about what of Laski’s library the London School of Economics owns.
BRI 2/4/37: 26 December 1957: Paper, 1f. Norton ? to KWB – Suggestion of further people to contact about Laski’s papers.
BRI 2/4/38: 29 December 1957: Paper, 1f. Anna J. Mill to KWB – Regarding KWB’s article and future plans regarding the MS.
BRI 2/4/39: 3 January 1958: Paper, 1f. KWB to G. Woledge – Request for information about Laski’s executors and whether London School of Economics owns the MS.
BRI 2/4/40: 8 January 1958: Paper, 1f. G. Woledge to KWB – Discussion of what the London School of Economics owns in relation to Laski and Mill and suggestion to go ahead with publications.
BRI 2/4/41: 10 February 1958: Paper, 1f. G. Woledge to KWB – Refusal to lend MS due to fragility and a request to arrange viewing instead.
BRI 2/4/42: 13 February 1958: Paper, 1f. G. Woledge to KWB – Information regarding further manuscripts.
BRI 2/4/43: 22 February 1958: Paper, 1f. KWB (?) to Professor Mineka – Regarding the Mill manuscripts of the London School of Economics.
BRI 2/4/44: 22 February 1958: Paper, 1f. KWB to Anna J. Mill – Regarding intent to publish and the sending of photstat copies of the five manuscripts.
BRI 2/4/45: undated: paper, 1f. KWB to ? – Regarding article and Anna Mill’s plans to publish whole article.
BRI 2/4/46: 1 March 1958: Paper, 1f. Anna J. Mill to KWB – Request for caution in suggesting her book is “forthcoming” as she has no publisher yet.
BRI 2/4/47: 17 March 1958: Paper, 1f. Francis E. Mineka to KWB – Regarding the scattering of Mill material.
BRI 2/4/48 – BRI 2/4/51: May 1965(?): Paper, 4f. Annotated list of Mill’s Debating Society and other early speeches with queries.
BRI 2/4/52 – BRI 2/4/53: May 1965(?): Paper, rust damage to top left corner of both, 2f. Queries regarding Mill’s speeches.
BRI 2/4/54: 31 December 1953: Paper, 1f. Lionel Robbins to KWB – On an error in the book on Mill.
BRI 2/4/55: 5 January 1954: Paper, 1f. A. EWittgensteinood to KWB and draft of KWB’s reply – On questions regarding specific debates at the Cambridge Union Society.
BRI 2/4/56: 12 January 1954: Paper, 1f. KWB to A. EWittgensteinood – Typed copy of KWB’s reply regarding the two debates.
BRI 2/4/57: 12 January 1954: Paper, 1f. KWB to Lionel Robbins – Thanks for letter regarding error in book on Mill.
BRI 2/4/58: 18 January 1954: Paper, 1f. Lord Russell to KWB – Thanks for letter regarding misspelling of name.
BRI 2/4/59: 18 March 1954: Paper, 1f. KWB to Francis E. Mineka – Asking for information on the debate between Mill and Roebuck.
BRI 2/4/60: 1 April 1954: Paper, 1f. Francis E. Mineka to KWB – Apologies for the little information on Mill and Roebuck debate he was able to provide.
BRI 2/4/61: 12 April 1954: Paper, 1f. KWB to John Wilks – Access to certain Mill manuscripts in University College Library.
BRI 2/4/62 – BRI 2/4/63: 12 April 1954: Paper, 2f. KWB to Francis E. Mineka – Regarding tracking down Mill papers.
BRI 2/4/65: 15 April 1954: Paper, 1f. John Wilks to KWB – Information on where papers might be as not in University College Library. Printer notes on the back.
BRI 2/4/66: 25 May 1954: Paper, some rust damage to top left corner, 1f. Herbert Dingle to KWB – Request for assistance with reference.
BRI 2/4/67 – BRI 2/4/69: 28 May 1954: Paper, some rust damage to top left corner, 2f. KWB to Herbert Dingle – Provision of reference and discussion of question.
BRI 2/4/70 – BRI 2/4/71: 4 June 1954: Paper, some rust damage to top left corner, 2f. Herbert Dingle to KWB – Discussion of Mill’s “proof” of other minds.
BRI 2/4/72: 2 September 1954: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 1f. John C. Rees to KWB – Thanks for commenting on memorandum.
BRI 2/4/72a: 28 July 1954: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 1f. John C. Rees to KWB asking for comments on memorandum.
BR1 2/4/73 – BRI 2/4/75: 28 July 1954: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 2f. Memorandum on essay entitled “On Social Freedom” attributed to John Stuart Mill.
BRI 2/4/76: 16 November 1954: Paper, slight rust damage top left corner, 1f. John C. Rees to KWB – Mentioning memorandum having been expanded into an article.
BRI 2/4/77: 29 September 1955: Paper, 1f. R. A. Becker to KWB – Acceptance of offer of article on Mill for Cambridge Review.
BRI 2/4/78: 11 October 1955: Paper, 1f. R. A. Becker to KWB – Explanation of problems with formatting article and the solutions suggested.
BRI 2/4/79: 8 November 1955: Paper, slight rust damage top left corner, 1f. Francis E. Hyde to KWB – Praise for article, list of recipients of copies of article hand written on the bottom of letter.
BRI 2/4/80: 10 November 1955: Paper, 1f. W. L. Dunn to KWB – Thanks for article.
BRI 2/4/81: 24 April 1958: Paper, 1f. Francis E. Hyde to KWB – Thanks for, comments on and praise for article on Mill.
BRI 2/4/82: 2 September 1958: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Lionel Robbins to KWB – Thanks for offprint of article on Mill and comments on Mill, Wordsworth and Shelley.
BRI 2/4/83: 2 October 1958: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Isaiah Bevlin to KWB – Thanks for various writings on Mill and comments on the state of political philosophy.
BRI 2/4/84: 3 November 1959: Paper, 1f. S. E. Finer to KWB – Suggestion of tracking down papers of Professor Bane of Aberdeen relating to Edwin Chadwick and J. S. Mill.
BRI 2/4/85 – BRI 2/4/86: 22 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 2f. KWB to Helen Darbishire – Comments on Mill’s relationship with his wife and the poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley.
BRI 2/4/87: 7 October 1958: Paper, some marks on reverse, 1f. Larry ? to KWB – Suggestions for tour of literary “shrines” of England, Scotland and Wales and description of travels in Europe.
BRI 2/4/88: 7 October 1958: Envelope, 1f. Envelope of BRI 2/4/87.
BRI 2/4/89 – BRI 2/4/92: 5 July 1953: 35mm colour slides (Kodachrome Transparency), 4. Enclosed in BRI 2/4/87 4 slides of Harriet Mill’s tomb in Avignon.
BRI 2/4/93 – BRI 2/4/94: 20 April 1960: Paper, 2f. H. J. McClosky to KWB – Discussion of views on utilitarianism and crime and punishment.
Paper file
BRI 2/4/95-104 1962 – 1965
Correspondence with scholars
BRI 2/4/95: 23 November 1962: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 1f. KWB to R. J. L. King'sford – Covering letter for a report to a publisher regarding the book ‘Mill and Liberalism’ by Maurice Cowling.
BRI 2/4/96: 29 December 1962: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 1f. Maurice Cowling to KWB – Thanks for criticisms of ‘Mill and Liberalism’ and explanations of revisions done due to them.
BRI 2/4/97: 14 November 1962: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 1f. Secretary of R. J. L. King'sford to Miss O’ Rorke (Secretary to KWB) – Request for KWB’s report on Maurice Cowling’s book ‘Mill and Liberalism”.
BRI 2/4/98 – BRI 2/4/101: November 1962: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corners, 4f. Report and criticisms of Maurice Cowling’s ‘Mill and Liberalism’.
BRI 2/4/102 – BRI 2/4/103: 10 June 1965: Paper, 2f. John M. Robson to KWB – Suggestion of work on various Mill manuscripts, including note by KWB at the bottom dated 16 June agreeing to Robson’s proposal.
BRI 2/4/104: 24 August 1965: Paper, slight marks on both top corners and centre of letter, 1f. John M. Robson to KWB – Confirmation of information on various speeches of Mill previously sent.
Paper file
BRI 2/4/105-124 1953 - 1954
Reviews
BRI 2/4/105 – BRI 2/4/106: 24 July 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to BRI 2/4/106, 2f (attached together). Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in
Glasgow Evening Times and attached slip from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/107 – 2/4/108: 16 July 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to BRI 2/4/108, 2f (attached together). Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book by T. A. Jackson in
Daily Worker (London) and attached slip from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/109 – BRI 2/4/110: 12 September 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to both BRI 2/4/109 and BRI 2/4/110, 2f (attached together). Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book by Richard Wollheim in
New Statesman (London) and attached slip from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/111 – BRI 2/4/112: 13 August 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to BRI 2/4/111, 2f (attached together). Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in the
Cork Examiner and attached slip from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/113 – BRI 2/4/114: 21 August 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to BRI 2/4/113, 2f (attached together). Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in the
Northern Daily Echo (Darlington) and attached slip from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/115: 24 July 1953: Newspaper cutting pasted on slip, 1f. Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in the
Eastern Daily Press on from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/116 – 2/4/117: 11 July 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to BRI 2/4/117, 2f (attached together). Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in the
Barrow News (Barrow in Furness) and attached slip from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/118 – BRI 2/4/119: Summer 1954: Paper, slight rust damage to both and tape holding them together degrading, 2f. Review of Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in
Science and Society by Irving Louis Horowitz.
BRI 2/4/120 – BRI 2/4/121: 10 December 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to top left corner, 2f (attached together). Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in
Listener and attached slip from Romeike & Curtice Ltd. Press Cuttings Agency.
BRI 2/4/122: 11 December 1953: Newspaper cutting and slip, slight rust damage to slip, 2f (attached together). Article on J. S. Mill with reference to KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in
John O’London’s Weekly by Frank Swinnerton.
BRI 2/4/123: 7 May 1954: Newspaper cutting, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in conjunction with review of Michael St. John Packe’s The Life of John Stuart Mill in
The Times Literary Supplement.
BRI 2/4/124: 10 December 1953: Newspaper cutting, wear to bottom and left sides, 1f. Review of KWB’s J. S. Mill Penguin Philosophy Series book in
Listener. Same as BRI 2/4/120.
Paper file
BRI 2/5 1931 - 1975
Correspondence regarding Wittgenstein
BRI 2/5/1: 13 October 1931: Paper, 1f. Wittgenstein to KWB – Notification of discussion class time and place.
BR1 2/5/2 – BRI 2/5/8: (undated): Paper, some rust damage to top left corner, 7f. Transcripts of letters, chiefly Wittgenstein to Russell and one G. E. Moore to F.A. Hayek, June 1912 to March 1914. Pencil heading: From notes by F. A. von Hayek.
BRI 2/5/9: 7 March 1954: Paper, 1f. F. A. Hayek to KWB – Explaining inability to assist with query on Mill and request for information about Wittgenstein for biographical sketch, includes pencil notes on possible sources for this information.
BRI 2/5/10: (undated): Paper, 1f. KWB to F.A. Hayek – Reply to BRI 2/5/9 and suggestions for people to contact for reminiscences on Wittgenstein: Dr. R.H. Thomas, Dr. D.G. James, Sir Raymond Priestley, A.R.M. Murray, Dr. O’C. Drury.
BRI 2/5/11: 2 April 1954: Paper, slight worn, 1f. R. Rhees to KWB – Comments on KWB’s memoir of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/12: 29 October 1954: Paper, 1f. D.G. James to KWB – Thanks for sending and comments on KWB’s Cambridge Review article.
BRI 2/5/13: 13 November 1954: Paper, 1f. Quentin Bell to KWB – Reply to a request to use Julian Bell’s “Epistle to Richard Braithwaite” and suggestion on where to find a copy. Includes red pen note “Venture 1930”.
BRI 2/5/14: 30 November 1954: Paper, 1f. E.W. Playfair to Mr. Budge – Comments on Bell’s “Epistle to Richard Braithwaite” in Venture that he sent and the reactions to it at the time.
BRI 2/5/15 – BRI 2/5/16: 11 December 1954: Paper, 2f. E.W. Playfair to KWB – Comments on Bell’s reasons and context for writing his “Epistle” and reminiscences of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/17: 16 December 1954: Paper, 1f. Quentin Bell to KWB – Suggestion that Julian Bell may not have reprinted “Epistle” due to changing his opinion of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/18: 12 June 1955: Paper, some marks on reverse, 1f. R. Rhees to KWB – Regarding his decision to withdraw permission for The Listener to use a photograph of his of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/19: 7 July 1955: Paper, 1f. R, Rhees to KWB – Concerning his not going to Leeds and reporting Elizabeth Anscombe’s approval of KWB’s article in The Listener.
BRI 2/5/20: 17 November 1955: Paper, worn edges, 1f. G. H. von Wright to KWB – Thanks for copy of Recollections of Wittgenstein for Cambridge Review.
BRI 2/5/21 – BRI 2/5/22: 13 August 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 2f. Victor Gollancz to KWB – Proposing a book by KWB on Wittgenstein. Includes notes in margin on length and time taken by book on Mill.
BRI 2/5/23: 11 August 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner and marks to bottom left corner, 1f. R. Rhees to KWB – Regarding problems in finding a suitable biographer for Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/24: 16 August 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Victor Gollancz to KWB – Possibility of Miss Anscombe being more disposed to releasing material for a biography of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/25 – BRI 2/5/26: 19 August 1957: Paper, 2f. Richard Braithwaite to KWB – Explaining how far he is willing to assist in KWB’s biography of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/27: 31 August 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. G. H. von Wright to KWB – Willingness to assist KWB with information on Wittgenstein’s life, would not be willing to show some letters from Wittgenstein he holds but
informing of publishing of some of Wittgenstein’s writings anterior to “Tractatus”.
BRI 2/5/28 – BRI 2/5/29: (undated): Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 2f. Elizabeth Anscombe to KWB – Mentioning several sources published and unpublished for information on Wittgenstein and suggests Norman Malcolm as a suitable person to
write a biography of Wittgenstein as he was a close friend.
BRI 2/5/30: 13 September 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Ernest Gellner to KWB – Agreeing to lend KWB Wittgenstein’s unpublished Blue Book for copying.
BRI 2/5/31: 18 September 1957: Paper, damage to top left corner, 1f. F. A. Hayek to KWB – Offering to send a copy of his biographical research on Wittgenstein which is delayed by copyright restrictions.
BRI 2/5/32: 19 September 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Norman Malcolm to KWB – Has written a memoir of Wittgenstein and sent it to a publisher but does not know yet whether it will be accepted.
BRI 2/5/33 – BRI 2/5/35: 19 September 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 3f. Con Drury to KWB – Offering to lend his unpublished collection of letters on Wittgenstein’s work.
BRI 2/5/36: (undated draft): Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. KWB to Con Drury – Accepting Drury’s offer to lend him the unpublished letters.
BRI 2/5/37: 23 September 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. W. Mays to KWB – Wittgenstein papers not deposited in library but willing to allow KWB to study them, right of publication reserved.
BRI 2/5/38: 24 September 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. R. Rhees to KWB – Comments on Wittgenstein’s letters and skills necessary for any biographer of Wittgenstein, also E. Anscombe’s intention to write a book on the
Tractatus.
BRI 2/5/39 – BRI 2/5/41: 27 September 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 3f. KWB to Victor Gollancz – Outlining issues with writing a book on Wittgenstein due to restrictions imposed by literary executors.
BRI 2/5/42 – BRI 2/5/43: (undated): Paper, slight damage to top left corner, marked “not sent”, 2f. KWB to R. Rhees – Summary of difficulties in writing about Wittgenstein and intention to put off finishing said book indefinitely.
BRI 2/5/44: 30 September 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Victor Gollancz to KWB – Acknowledging reasons in BRI 2/5/39 – 2/5/41 that proposed book on Wittgenstein impossible to write under current circumstances.
BRI 2/5/45: 2 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Hilary Rubinstein to KWB – Enquiring about the recently published memoir (N. Malcolm) on Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/46: 3 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. W. Mays to KWB – Offering to lend his papers on Wittgenstein to KWB.
BRI 2/5/47: 8 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Hilary Rubinstein to KWB – Thanking KWB for providing name of author (N. Malcolm) of newly published memoir of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/48: 12 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. W. Mays to KWB – Acknowledging return of papers. Comments on change in Wittgenstein after the war.
BRI 2/5/49: 17 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. KWB to F. A. Hayek – Requesting a copy of Hayek’s biographical sketch of Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/50: 18 October 1957: Paper, slight damage to top left corner annotated by KWB at bottom, 1f. R. Rhees to KWB – Comments on why is it a good thing KWB choose not to write about Wittgenstein, annotated by KWB on why this is a
misrepresentation of his decision.
BRI 2/5/51: 21 October 1957: Paper, annotated with response to letter by KWB, 1f. F. A. Hayek to KWB – Suggesting it may be possible to resolve the difficulties with the literary executors.
BRI 2/5/52: 19 November 1957: Paper, slight rust mark to top left corner, 1f. Mac (no further information except sent from Dept. of German and Scandinavian Studies, King’s College Newcastle) to KWB – Enclosing article about Wittgenstein and
offers to meet to discuss it at a later date.
BRI 2/5/53 – BRI 2/5/67: sent 19 November 1957 with BRI 2/5/52: Paper, some pencil notes, 15f. Sent by Mac to KWB – Article “Rilke und der unbekannte Freund: in memoriam Ludwig Wittgenstein”, by Ludwig Ficker from Der Brenner, 18. Folge,
Innsbruke 1954, pp. 234-248. Concerned with Ficker’s reminiscences of Wittgenstein especially his role as an intermediary in anonymous gifts made by Wittgenstein to Rilke and Trakl, written in German.
BRI 2/5/68 – BRI 2/5/78: sent 19 November 1957 with BRI 2/5/52: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corners, 11f. Mac to KWB – English summary of BRI 2/5/53 – BRI 2/5/67 written on the back of several posters for University of Heidelberg’s
production of Urfaust performed in October/November (no year).
BRI 2/5/79: (undated): Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. M. O’C Drury to KWB - Request for candid opinion on draft sent to KWB.
BRI 2/5/80: 3 January 1958: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. KWB to M. O’Connor Drury (draft) – Comments on Drury’s draft and urging him to write down all the conversations he can remember having with Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/81 – BRI 2/5/82: 8 February 1958: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 2f. M. O’ Connor Drury to KWB – Comments on draft and desires to write further but lacking time.
BRI 2/5/83: 10 March 1958: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. Alan Ridout to KWB – Request for information on the whereabouts of Wittgenstein’s early paper on rhythm.
BRI 2/5/84: 3 April 1958: Paper, damage to top left corner, 1f. KWB to F. A. Hayek – Returning Hayek’s memoir of Wittgenstein and promising to send his two papers on J. S. Mill from the Cambridge Review.
BRI 2/5/85: 19 October 1957: Paper, some damage to top left corner, 1f. F. A. Hayek to KWB – Refers to Ficker’s article and a typescript by W. Eccles and W. Mays “Wittgenstein in Manchester”.
BRI 2/5/86: 25 July 1958: Paper, 1f. Norman Malcolm to KWB – Thanks for sending copy of KWB’s article in The Listener and assurances over a problem with a footnote by von Wright.
BRI 2/5/87: 24 September 1962: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, includes pencil and pen notes, 1f. George Pitcher to KWB – Requesting permission to quote from KWB’s article in The Listener in June 1955 in forthcoming book.
BRI 2/5/88: 27 September 1962: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 1f. George Pitcher to KWB – Request to quote a further passage from Listener article June 1955.BRI 2/5/89: 2 October 1962: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, 1f. KWB to George
Pitcher – Giving permission for quotations.
BRI 2/5/90: 10 July (no year): Paper, 1f. Joan Bevan to KWB – Asking to meet with KWB when he next visits Cambridge to discuss Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/91: (undated): Newspaper cutting, 1f. Gitta Deutsch Arnold – A recollection of working for Wittgenstein as a typist.
BRI 2/5/92: (undated): Paper, 2f. G. Kirsch to KWB – Recollections of Wittgenstein, mainly from stories told by his bedmaker.
BRI 2/5/93: 28 July 1966: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 1f. KWB to Sister Mary EWittgensteinyn – Regarding her dissertation and request for information on Wittgenstein, includes a list of those who attended Wittgenstein’s
lectures.
BRI 2/5/94 – BRI 2/5/95: 22 July 1966: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 2f. Sister Mary EWittgensteinyn to KWB – Request for information on biographical sources for Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/5/96: 6 August 1966: Paper, 1f. Sister Mary EWittgensteinyn to KWB – Thanks for assistance and list of lecture attendees in particular.
BRI 2/5/97: 1 July 1968: Paper, rust mark in top left corner, draft reply on reverse, 1f. John H. Moran to KWB – Requesting information on Wittgenstein’s visit to the USSR in 1935 and his knowledge and reaction to the writings of Marx and Engels.
Draft reply refers to Wittgenstein’s travelling companion Francis Skinner but KWB unable to provide much more information.
BRI 2/5/98: 11 July 1968: Paper, rust mark in top left corner, 1f. KWB to John H. Moran – Typed reply to BRI 2/5/97 including information on Francis Skinner but unable to answer any more of Moran’s questions.
BRI 2/5/99: 26 July 1968: Paper, rust marks on left side, 1f. John H. Moran to KWB – Further comments on Wittgenstein’s visit to USSR, assistance from J. M. Keynes and Wittgenstein’s thoughts on settling there.
BRI 2/5/100: 22 March 1969: Paper, rust marks in top left corner, 1f. David Raynor to KWB – Requesting information on Wittgenstein’s visits to Norway.
BRI 2/5/101: 31 March 1969: Paper, rust marks in top left corner, 1f. KWB to David Raynor – Refers Raynor to Cambridge Review article and apologises for not being able to be of any more help.
BRI 2/5/102: 8 April 1969: Paper, rust mark in top left corner, 1f. David Raynor to KWB – Thanks for replying to his request.
BRI 2/5/103: 2 October 1975: Paper, page marked, 1f. R. J. Haack to KWB – Enquiry as to what Wittgenstein disliked about Schiller 1932 Mind paper “The value of formal logic”.
BRI 2/5/104: 20 November 1975: Paper, handwritten note about tracing Murray by Pamela at bottom of letter, 1f. Brian F. McGuinness to KWB – Requesting address of A.R.M. Murray.
BRI 2/5/105: 9 December 1975: Paper, 1f. Brian F. McGuinness to KWB – Thanking KWB for his reply and his suggestions of Porteous, Maclennan, Sir E, Playfair and Q. Bell for contacts on Wittgenstein.
Paper file
BRI 2/6
Wittgenstein Notes and Drafts of Article.
BRI 2/6/1-34 1976
Outline and drafts of article on Wittgenstein.
BRI 2/6/1 – BRI 2/6/14: 5 August 1976 (date possibly added later and may not refer to date of writing): Paper, some rust damage to top left corners, 14f. Outline of Wittgenstein’s life and philosophy, several notes in red pen including “York 5
August 1976” at the top of the first page.
BRI 2/6/15 – BRI 2/6/23: (undated): Paper, some rust damage to top and left side edges, 9f. Draft of article on Wittgenstein including notes in margins and corrections attached with paper clips to BRI 2/6/16 and BRI 2/6/23.
BRI 2/6/24 – BRI 2/6/25: (undated): Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 2f. Draft of beginning of article on Wittgenstein, includes notes in margins.
BRI 2/6/26 – BRI 2/6/34: (undated): Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 9f. Draft of article on Wittgenstein including notes in margins, a correction attached with paper clips to BRI 2/6/31 and “L. Playfair” written on top left of first page.
Paper file
BRI 2/6/35-45 [?1950s]
Biographical notes and chronologies of Wittgenstein’s life.
BRI 2/6/35 – BRI 2/6/36: (undated): Paper, 2f. Biographical notes in Wittgenstein including the places he lived, studies and visited.
BRI 2/6/37 – BRI 2/6/40: (undated): Paper, rust damage to top left corner, 4f. Copied extracts of letters about and from Wittgenstein from the period 1915 – 1939.
BRI 2/6/41: (undated): Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 1f. List biographical material on Wittgenstein, including a list of possible contact for information.
BRI 2/6/42: (undated): Paper, edges worn, 1f. Bibliography on Wittgenstein on reverse of page on higher education and social sciences.
BRI 2/6/43: (undated): Paper, rust marks to bottom right corner, 2f. List of biographical sources on reverse of a timetable for examinations in arts, University of Durham (Newcastle Division) September 1957.
BRI 2/6/44: (undated): Paper, edges worn, 1f. Notes on the views of Wittgenstein of a Finnish and an American friend on reverse of Ethics examination questions for University of Durham (King’s College) March, 1958.
BRI 2/6/45: (undated): Paper, edges very worn, 2f. A chronology of part of Wittgenstein’s life and notes from a commonplace book concerning him on reverse of a list of candidates for a selection of courses.
Paper file
BRI 2/6/46-70 [?1970s]
Notes on Wittgenstein’s philosophy.
BRI 2/6/46 – BRI 2/6/47: (undated): Paper, 2f. Notes covering a Wittgenstein lecture “Lectures on Religious Belief”.
BRI 2/6/48 – BRI 2/6/50: (undated): Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 3f. Outline of Wittgenstein’s position on various questions of philosophy especially with regard Pole, includes various notes in red and pencil in the margins.
BRI 2/6/51: (undated): Paper, slightly worn edges, 1f. Outline of philosophical viewpoints and stances.
BRI 2/6/52 – BRI 2/6/55: (undated): Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 4f. Discussion on Pole’s philosophy and his view of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, included notes in red in the margins.
BRI 2/6/56 – BRI 2/6/60: (undated): Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 5f. Notes on Pole’s interpretation of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, includes some notes in red in the margins.
BRI 2/6/61 – BRI 2/6/64: (undated): Paper, edges slightly worn, 4f. Notes on Paul Fayerabend’s interpretations of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, includes some notes in red in the margins, on the reverse of the list of candidates for University of
Durham Final Exam for Honours in Philosophy BA, June 1957.
BRI 2/6/65 – BRI 2/6/66: (undated, post 1972): Paper, 2f. Notes on Christopher Cooke’s interpretations of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, includes some notes in red in the margins, on reverse of photocopy of comments on metaphor in poetry.
BRI 2/6/67: (undated , post 1967): Paper, 1f. Notes on an article in the Philosophical Review, 1968, includes some notes in red.
BRI 2/6/68 – BRI 2/6/70: (undated): Paper, some rust marks to top left corner, 4f. Notes on Wittgenstein’s “On Certainties”, includes some notes in red in margins and KWB’s family tree on reverse of BRI 2/6/70.
Paper file
BRI 2/6/71-79 [?1970s]
Notes on Wittgenstein’s Blue Book, contains notes in margins and a child’s drawing, in University College of Swansea answer booklet for John Cecil L(?) Thomas.
Paper, slight rust damage to left hand side holes punched in top left corner, 10f.
BRI 2/6/80-133 [?1970s]
Notes on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico – Philosophicus.
BRI 2/6/80 – BRI 2/6/82: (undated): Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 3f. Notes on “the mystical” in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
BRI 2/6/83 – BRI 2/6/87: (undated): Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 5f. General notes on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
BRI 2/6/88 – BRI 2/6/101: (undated): Paper, slight damage to top left corner, slightly worn edges, 13f. More notes on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, including notes on a review by Ramsey.
BRI 2/6/102 – BRI 2/6/133: (1933): Paper in a heavier paper booklet cover, slight damage to top left corner, 32f. Notes on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, labelled 1933, USA.
Paper file
BRI 2/7 1953 - 1977
Speeches, arranged chronologically.
Paper file
BRI 2/7/1-6 12 November 1953
‘L’Enfer c’est les Autre’ to Durham Union Society.
Paper, rust damage to top left corner, 6f
BRI 2/7/7-13 2 February 1954
‘That a man is what he knows’ to St. John’s College, Durham.
Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, date added in pencil, 7f
BRI 2/7/14-20 14 February 1957
‘That modern civilisation is paralysing the personality and initiative of the individual’ to Cambridge Union.
Paper, rust damage to top and bottom left corners, date and location added in coloured pencil, 7f
BRI 2/7/21-26 9 September 1959
Kenton Branch Library, speech at official opening ceremony.
Paper, rust damage to top and bottom left corners, date and location added in red pen, 5f
BRI 2/7/27-29 28 September 1960
Vote of thanks to Sir Frank Francis for opening the extensions to Newcastle University Library.
Paper, rust damage and marks to top and bottom left corners
BRI 2/7/30-40 7 February 1961
‘Modern man is the loser by his rejection of religion’ to Cambridge Union Society.
Paper, rust damage to top left corner, date and location added in red pen, 11f.
BRI 2/7/41-46 10 December 1963
Speech to University of Newcastle Literary Society.
Paper, date and location added in blue pen, 6f
BRI 2/7/47-53 3 October 1964
‘We are the intellectual elite’ to Newcastle University Union Society.
Paper, slight rust marks to top and bottom left corners and slight staining to reverse of BRI 2/7/53, date and location added in red pen, 7f
BRI 2/7/54-55 16 November 1965
‘On the Visitor’ proposing that the Senate of Newcastle University should invite the Visitor (Lord Gardener) to attend the next congregation for awarding honorary degrees. The motion is passed.
Paper, rust marks to top and bottom left corners and slight staining to reverses, notes and underlining in various colours, 2f
BRI 2/7/56 16 January 1969
Introduction to a lecture by A. J. Ayer ‘The Nature of Philosophical Enquiry’.
Paper, slight rust mark to bottom right side, date added in red pen, 1f
BRI 2/7/57-59 26 June 1969
Proposing the health of Professor G. B. A. Fletcher on his retirement.
Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, date added in pencil, 3f
BRI 2/7/60-65 ? June 1975
Speech at a dinner given by Newcastle University Faculty of Arts to mark KWB’s retirement and includes a page of summary notes and notations in the margins of the speech itself.
Paper, rust marks to top and bottom left corners, 6f
BRI 2/7/66-69 28 June 1975
Speech to final G. H. D. Graduates, includes amendments, notes in margins and a list of names on the reverse of BRI 2/7/69.
Paper, rust marks to top and bottom left corners, slight staining, 4f
BRI 2/7/70-73 24 June 1976
Proposing the health of Professor Hudson-Williams on his retirement.
Paper, in some places held together with tape, 4f
BRI 2/7/74-77 3 June 1976
Speech to G. D. H. Graduates 28 June 1975, re-written for Combined Honours Graduates 1976 includes summary notes on the reverse of BRI 2/7/77.
Paper, contains rust marks, 4f
BRI 2/7/78-98 ? February 1977
‘Novels: Prejudices and Preferences’, an explanation of KWB’s opinions on novels.
Paper, 21f
BRI 2/7/99-120 (undated)
“May I explain that the early days of the Cambridge Union…” a speech on the history of the Cambridge Union.
Paper, hole in top left corners, stained and marked, 22f.
BRI 2/7/121-139 (undated)
Address to The Cambridge Heretics on the transcendental element in religion
Paper, rust damage to top left corner, 19f
BRI 2/8 1971 - 1981
Reports for publishers (date used is earliest date in correspondence)
Paper file
BRI 2/8/1-3 18 February 1971
Regarding Dr. V. Bogdanor (Oxford University) and his proposed book on Mill’s political views. One letter to, and two letters from, Patricia Skinner at Cambridge University Press. Also includes handwritten notes in margins.
Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 3f
BRI 2/8/4-11 September 1971
Report on Eric Ackroyd’s “The Logic of Religious Utterances: A Preliminary Study”, no indication of publisher.
Paper, rust marks to top left corner and slight staining to right side, 8f
BRI 2/8/12-15 4 September 1973
Regarding Prof. Joel J. Kupperman (University of Connecticut) and his proposed book “The Nature of Ethics”. Report, one letter to and one from, Jeremy Mynott at Cambridge University Press.
Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner and slight staining to body of pages, 4f
BRI 2/8/16-17 9 September 1974
Report on J. M. Rist’s “Choosing a Morality: An Essay in Normative Ethics”, no indication of publisher.
Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 2f
BRI 2/8/18-28 14 June 1976
Regarding J. McDonnell’s essay on Mill’s Autobiography. Two letters from Professor Claude J. Rawson, editor of the Modern Language Review including some personal comments and handwritten report on the essay.
Paper, rust marks t top left corner, staining to body of the pages, 11f
BRI 2/8/29-49 8 June 1977
Regarding John Gray (Jesus College, Oxford) and his proposed book “Understanding ‘On Liberty’”. Three letters to and from Patricia Williams at Cambridge University Press, one letter from John Gray to Patricia Williams, photocopies of proposal,
abstract and contents of thesis, handwritten notes on proposal and thesis.
Paper, slight damage to top left corner and staining to body of the pages, 21f
BRI 2/8/50-68 24 January 1978
Regarding John Wilson’s proposed book “The Philosophy of Education”. Two letters from Jeremy Mynott at Cambridge University Press, photocopy of table of contents, handwritten notes on reverse of a book list and typed report.
Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, slight staining to body of pages, 19f
BRI 2/8/69-82 2 September 1978
Regarding Roger Trigg (University of Warwick) and his proposed book “The Nature of Man”. Letter from Jeremy Mynott at Cambridge University Press and photocopy of letter from Trigg to Mynott both with handwritten notes on reverse. Notes, two
copies of report, letter from KWB to Mynott, letter from Mynott’s secretary to KWB.
Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner and slight staining to bottom edge of pages, 15f
BRI 2/8/83-84 25 July 1979
Regarding the suggested re-issue of McTaggart’s “Some Dogmas of Religion”. One letter from Jonathan Sinclair-Wilson at Cambridge University Press and the report from KWB.
Paper, slight rust damage to top edge, staining to body of paper, bottom edges are worn, 2f
BRI 2/8/85-98 12 February 1981
Regarding the proposed publication of a book of C.D. Broad’s lectures on ethics. Two letters from Jeremy Mynott at Cambridge University Press, handwritten notes some on the reverse examination questions and letters regarding examinations at the
University of Wales and typewritten report.
Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner and slight staining to body of letter, 14f
BRI 2/8/99-109 5 October 1981
Regarding Bernard Semmel (State University of New York) and his proposed book “John Stuart Mill and the Choice of Hercules”. Letter from Jonathan Sinclair-Wilson at Cambridge University Press with notes on reverse, typewritten report and
handwritten notes some on reverse of examination questions and letters regarding examination scripts and Philosophical Institute timetables.
Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, staining to bottom of pages, 11f
BRI 2/8/110-115 (undated)
Report on W. J. B. Owen’s “Wordsworth’s Prefaces: A Reconsideration”. No publisher indicated.
Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 6f
BRI 2/8/116-122 (undated)
Report on N.J.H. Dent’s “Moral Belief”. No publisher indicated.
Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, 7f
BRI 2/8/123-135 26 July 1981
Regarding David McNaughton’s “Butler on Conscience, Vice and Unnaturalness”. Includes the article, one letter to McNaughton including notes and comments on the article and one letter from McNaughton to KWB.
Paper, rust damage to top left corner, slight staining to bottom edge, 13f
BRI 2/9 1955
“Two Concepts of Rules” by John Rawls
Paper file
BRI 2/9/1 28 April 1955
Letter from John Rawls explaining his intention and meaning by an “unhappily cryptic” footnote in the offprint of “Two Concepts of Rules”.
Paper, 1f
BRI 2/9/2 28 April 1955
Offprint of “Two Concepts of Rules” by John Rawls, re-printed from
The Philosophical Review, Volume LXIV, Number 1, January 1955. It includes a note in the margin on the first page and a fragment of KWB’s signature.
Paper, some rust damage in centre fold, isolated marks on pages, 16f
BRI 3
Britton’s publications, undated and 1934-1959. Offprints, where available and typescripts. Arranged chronologically, but dating may not be accurate.
BRI 3/1 1934 - 1936
Publications
BRI 3/1/1: December 1934: Paper, rust marks to centre fold, 10f. “Empirical Foundation for Logic” by KWB, Analysis, Vol. 2. No. 3. pp 37-42. Written Aberystwyth, November 1934. Published by Basil Blackwell. Oxford.
BRI 3/1/2 – BRI 3/1/8: (1934?): Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, some wear to edges, 7f. KWB’s Review of “Possibility”, Subject published by University of California Publications in
Philosophy, Vol. 17, pp. 1-224. Addressed to KWB in Aberystwyth.
BRI 3/1/9: January 1935: Paper, spine of book broken with pages coming away no more pages after KWB’s article, some margin notes in pencil and ink, 34 leaves. “Language, Public and Private” by KWB,
The Monist, Vol. XLV. No. 1. pp 1-59. Published by The Open Court Publishing Company.
BRI 3/1/10: October 1935: Paper, some discolouration, rust marks and wear to spine, 18f. “The Truth of Religious Propositions” by KWB, Analysis, Vol. 3. Nos. 1&2. pp 21-27. Written Aberystwyth, May 1935. Published by Basil Blackwell.
Oxford.
BRI 3/1/11 – BRI 3/1/14: (1935?) Paper, notes in pencil and ink, 4f. KWB’s review of “The Philosophy of Religion versus the Philosophy of Science” by Albert Eagle, Subject published by Simpkin and Marhsall pp 352.
BRI 3/1/15 – BRI 3/1/18: January 1935: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, 4f. KWB’s Review of “Return to Philosophy” by C.E.M. Joad, London: Subject published by Faber & Faber Ltd., pp 279.
BRI 3/1/19 – BRI 3/1/26: 1935?: Paper, discolouration and rust marks to top left corners BRI 3/1/26 bottom right corner torn, notes in pen and pencil, 8f. KWB’s review of “The Problem of Time”, Subject published in University of California
Publications in
Philosophy, Vol. 18, pp 225. Addressed to KWB in Aberystwyth.
BRI 3/1/27: April 1936: Paper, discolouration and rust marks to centre fold, notes in ink, pencil and orange pencil, 10f. “Epistemological Remarks on the Propositional Calculus” by KWB,
Analysis, Vol. 3. No. 4. pp 57-63. Written Aberystwyth. Published by Basil Blackwell. Oxford.
Paper file
BRI 3/2 1937 - 1941
Publications.
BRI 3/2/1 – BRI 3/2/22: 1937?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, 22f. “Structure of Language and Structure of Fact” by KWB, for Psyche.
BRI 3/2/23 – BRI 3/2/33: 1937?: Paper, rust marks in top left corner, notes in black and red ink, 11f. KWB’s Review of “Collected Papers of Charles Saunders Peirce: Edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss”, Scientific Metaphysics, Vol. VI.
Subject published by Cambridge, Mars. Harvard University Press, London Humphrey Milford. Addressed to KWB in Aberystwyth.
BRI 3/2/34 – BRI 3/2/43: 1936-1937?: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, wear to edges of paper, notes in ink, 10f. KWB’s review of “The Nature of Mind”, Subject published by University of California Publications in
Philosophy, Vol. 19. 1936. pp. 232.
BRI 3/2/44 – BRI 3/2/45: 27 March 1938: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, 2f. Letter to Editor of
Baptist Times regarding Neville Chamberlain’s foreign policy.
BRI 3/2/46 – BRI 3/1/51: 1938?: Paper, rust marks and slight damage to top left and right corners, notes in ink, 6f. KWB’s review of “The Problem of Inference” by W H V Reade, pp. 173. Subject published by Clarendon Press, 1938. Addressed to KWB
in Swansea.
BRI 3/2/52: 1939: Paper, rust marks and wear to centre fold, back page loose, copious notes in ink, pencil and orange pencil, 10f. “Reason and the Rules of Language” by KWB, Meeting of the Aristotelian Society at 55, Russell Square, London, WC1
on 27 March 1939 8pm. Back page includes list of people to send article to.
BRI 3/2/53: 1939?: Paper, rust marks and wear to centre fold, pages coming loose, 16f. “Introduction to the Metaphysics and Theology of C.S. Peirce” by KWB,
Ethics, pp. 435-465.
BRI 3/2/54 – BRI 3/2/65: 1939?: Paper, rust marks to top left and right corners, notes in pencil and ink, 12f. KWB’s review of “The Problem of the Individual”, Subject published by University of California Publications in
Philosophy, Vol. 20. Pp. 1-206.
BRI 3/2/66 – BRI 3/2/73: 1939: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pencil and ink, 8f. KWB’s review of “Reason”, Subject published by University of California Publications in
Philosophy, Vol. 21. pp. 228. 1939. Addressed to KWB at Swansea.
BRI 3/2/74 – BRI 3/2/83: 1940?: Paper, tearing and wear to top left corner and left edges, notes in ink, 9f. “The Description of Logical Properties” by KWB,
Analysis, June 1940, pp. 40-45.
BRI 3/2/84 – BRI 3/2/87: Paper, rust marks to left edge and top right corner, notes in pencil, 4f. “The Language of Controversy” by KWB,
Philosophy, pp. 412-418.
BRI 3/2/88 – BRI 3/2/98: 1941?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, pencil and red crayon,11f. KWB’s review of “Language and Reality, The Philosophy of Language and the Principles of Symbolism” by Wilbur Marshall Urban, pp. 755.
Subject published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1939.
Paper file
BRI 3/3 1946 - 1948
Publications.
BRI 3/3/1 – BRI 3/3/5: 1946?: Paper, hole in top left corner, slight wear to edges, notes in ink and pencil, 5f. KWB’s review of “The Criticism of Experience” by D.J.B. Hawkins. Subject published by Sheed & Ward Ltd., 1945. Review published
in
Mind 1946.
BRI 3/3/6 – BRI 3/3/24: 1947?: Paper, hole in top left corner, slight wear to edges, notes in ink and pencil, 19f. “Necessary Truths True by Convention?” by KWB.
BRI 3/3/25: 5 June 1947: Paper, rust marks to centre fold and top edge, pamphlet, 6f. “Counting, A Philosophical Analysis” by KWB.
The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLIV. No. 12. pp. 309-318.
BRI 3/3/26: 24 November 1947: Paper bound with thread, ink marks to front and back folios, 6f. “The Nature of Arithmetic: A Reconsideration of Mill’s Views” by KWB. Meeting of the Aristotelian Society, at 21 Bedford Square, London WC1, on 24
November 1947, 8pm. pp. 1-12.
BRI 3/3/27 – BRI 3/3/28: 24 July 1947: Paper, hole in top left corner, notes in pencil and ink, 2f. Letter to the Editor of
Mind suggesting changes to format of debates/speaking at the Joint Session.
BRI 3/3/29 – BRI 3/3/37: 1947?: Paper, slight rust marks to front page, notes in ink and pencil, 9f. KWB’s review of “Problems of Men” by John Dewey, subject published in New York, 1946. Addressed to KWB in Swansea.
BRI 3/3/38 – BRI 3/3/40: 1947?: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in pencil, 4f. KWB’s review of “The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking” by Dorothy M. Emmet. Subject published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1945. Addressed to KWB
in Newbury.
BRI 3/3/41: 1947?: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, 1f. KWB’s review of “Whitehead’s Philosophy of Time” by W.W. Hammerschmidt. Subject published by King’s Crown Press, New York and Geoffrey Cumberlegge, London. 1947.
BRI 3/3/42 – BRI 3/3/58: November 1948?: Paper, slight wear to edges, notes in ink and pencil, 10f. “John Stuart Mill: The Ordeal of the Intellectual” by KWB.
BRI 3/3/59 – BRI 3/3/61: 29 May 1948: Paper, slight marks throughout, slight wear to edges, 3f. “Philosophy at Oxford” by KWB,
The Cambridge Review, pp. 572-576.
BRI 3/3/62: January 1948: Paper, rust marks and damage to centre fold, notes in pencil, 10f. “Truth and Knowledge: some comments on Russell” by KWB,
Analysis, Vol. 8. No. 3. Jan 1948, pp. 39-43.
BRI 3/3/63 – BRI 3/3/67: 11 August 1948: Paper, rust marks and damage to left edge, paper discoloured and fragile, 5f. “What is a Rule of Language” by KWB. Reprinted from
Library of the Xth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam 11 August 1948). Vol. 1. Published North-Holland Publishing Co. Amsterdam. pp. 99-101.
BRI 3/3/68 – BRI 3/3/69: 17 January 1948: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in red crayon, 2f. Letter to the Editor of the
New Statesman & Nation regarding their treatment of Whitehead.
BRI 3/3/70: 16 October 1948: Paper, rust marks to middle right, 1f. Most of a review by KWB of a book by H.H. Joachim, subject published by Clarendon Press Oxford, 1948. Review published in
The Cambridge Review, 16 October 1948. pp. 24.
Paper file
BRI 3/4 1949 - 1953
Publications.
BRI 3/4/1 – BRI 3/4/4: June 1949: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, worn bottom edge, worn punched holes in left side, notes in red and blue ink, 4f. “Russell On Human Knowledge”, by KWB.
BRI 3/4/5 – BRI 3/4/7: 1949?: Paper, rust damage and hole to top left corner, worn punched holes in left side, notes in black ink, 3f. KWB’s review of “An English School” by W.B.Gallie subject published by The Crescent Press, pp.162.
BRI 3/4/8: 1950?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, worn punched holes in left side, pencil notes, 1f. KWB’s review of “The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism” by Elie Halvey, trans. Mary Morris. Subject published by Faber & Faber in 1949,
pp. xvii + 554.
BRI 3/4/9 – BRI 3/4/10: 1950?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, damage to top left corner, notes in red ink, 2f. KWB’s review of “Theory of Knowledge, An Introduction” by A.D. Woozley subject published by Hutchinson’s University Library in
1949, pp. 196.
BRI 3/4/11: 1951: Paper, rust marks to centre fold, blue ink stain to right edge, 2f. Off print of “Mr. Urmson on Grading” by KWB from
Mind: a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. Vol. LX., N.S., No. 240, October, 1951. Written University College of Swansea. Published The University Press Aberdeen.
BRI 3/4/12 – BRI 3/4/18: July 1951?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, worn punched holes on left edge, notes in ink and pencil, 7f. KWB’s review of “The Philosophical Predicament” by Winston H.F. Barnes. Subject published by A. & C.
Black.
BRI 3/4/19 – BRI 3/4/22: 1951?: Paper, torn top left corner to BRI 3/4/19, worn right edge, notes ink, 4f. KWB’s review of “David Hume, His Theory of Knowledge and Morality” by D.G.C. MacNabb subject published by Hutchinson’s University
Library.
BRI 3/4/23 – BRI 3/4/46: 15 April 1952: Paper, damage to top left corner, worn left edge, notes in pencil, crayon and ink, 24f. “Seeming” by KWB
BRI 3/4/47 – BRI 3/4/51: 1952?: Paper, small hole a separate rust marks to top left corner, 5f. KWBs review of “Ethics and the History of Philosophy, Selected Essays” by C.D. Broad,
International History of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method, subject published by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
BRI 3/4/52 – BRI 3/4/53: 1952?: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, 2f. KWB’s review of “Butler’s Moral Philosophy” by Austin Duncan-Jones. Subject published by Penguin Books.
BRI 3/4/54 – BRI 3/4/55: 1952?: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, marks in pencil, 2f. KWB’s review of “Inquiring Spirit: A new presentation of Coleridge from his published and unpublished prose writings” edited by Kathleen Coburn.
Subject published London: Routledge, 1951. pp. 454. Review published in
New Books. pp. 269 – 271.
BRI 3/4/56: 1952?: Paper, notes in ink and pencil, 1f. KWB’s review of “The Logic of Personality” by Bernard Mayo. Subject published by Jonathan Cape.
BRI 3/4/57: 29 July 1952?: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, 1f. KWB’s review of “The Vindication of Metaphysics: A Study in the Philosophy of Spinoza” by Ruth Lydia Saw. Subject published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1951.
BRI 3/4/58 – BRI 3/4/62: 1953: Paper, rust marks and damage to centre fold, 5f. “The Physical Object and Its Appearances” by KWB. Epistemology, Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of Philosophy. Vol., II. Brussells 20-26 August 1953,
published North-Holland Publishing Company Amsterdam. Written from King's College, The University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
BRI 3/4/63 – BRI 3/4/65: January 1953: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, worn right edge, notes in ink, 3f. KWB’s review of “British Empirical Philosophies” ed. A.J. Ayer and Raymond Winch. Subject published by Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1952. pp. 560. Review published in
Philosophy.
BRI 3/4/66 – BRI 3/4/68: 1953: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, worn and torn right edge, 3f. KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage” by F. A. Hayek. Subject published
London, Routledge & Keagan Paul Ltd., 1951. pp. 320. Review published in
Mind.
Paper file
BRI 3/5 1954 - 1959
Publications.
BRI 3/5/1: 27 April 1954: Paper, booklet bound in blue card, 14f. “The Paragon of Knowledge: Inaugural Lecture of the Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy delivered at the College on 27 April 1953” by KWB. University Press, Oxford, 1954.
BRI 3/5/2 – BRI 3/5/10: 22 February 1954: Paper, bound with tape over staples, tape yellowing and rust marks underneath, 9f. “What Does a Moral Judgement Commit Me To?” by KWB. Meeting of the Aristotelian Society at 21 Bedford Square , London,
WC1 on February 22nd 1954 at 7.30pm.
BRI 3/5/11 – BRI 3/5/15: July 1954: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in ink and pencil, 5f. KWB’s review of “The Philosophy of J.S. Mill” by R.P. Anschutz. Subject published by Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1953. pp. 184. Review
published in
Philosophy, July 1954.
BRI 3/5/16 – BRI 3/5/17: 1954: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in pencil and ink, 2f. KWB’s review of “Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research, Selected Essays” by C.D. Broad. International Library of Psychology,
Philosophy and Scientific Method. Subject published by Routledge. Review in
Cambridge Journal.
BRI 3/5/18: 1954?: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, 1f. KWB’s review of “Freedom. A New Analysis” by Maurice Cranston. Subject published by Longmans. Review published - unknown.
BRI 3/5/19 – BRI 3/5/20: 3 April 1954: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, 2f. KWB’s review of “The Life of John Stuart Mill” by Michael St. John Packe. Subject published by Secker & Warburg. Review published in
The Times.
BRI 3/5/21 – BRI 3/5/24: 1954?: Paper, rust marks to centre fold, 4f. “About J.O Wisdom’s The Unconscious Origin of Berkeley’s Philosophy” by KWB.
Notes et Discussions, Extrait de la Revue Internationale de Philosophie. No. 30. 1954.
BRI 3/5/25 – BRI 3/5/28: 1955?: Paper, slight rust marks and damage to left edge, 4f. “The Inner Life: Expression and Description” by KWB. Written from King's College, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
BRI 3/5/29 – BRI 3/5/31: 29 October 1955: Paper, slight rust marks to left edge, right edge worn, 3f. “J.S. Mill and the Cambridge Union Society” by KWB.
The Cambridge Review 29th October 1955. Reprinted by King’s College. Also second article dated 8th March 1958. No author, potentially KWB.
BRI 3/5/32: 16 June 1955: Paper, notes in pencil, 1f. “Portrait of a Philosopher” by KWB. Article for the Listener on Wittgenstein.
BRI 3/5/33 – BRI 3/5/37: August 1956. Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, rust marks to bottom right corner, notes in pencil and marks in ink, 5f. KWB’s reviews of “The Revolution in Philosophy” by A.J. Ayer, W.C.Kneale, G.A. Paul,
D.F. Pears, P.F. Strawson, G.J Warnock, R.A Wollheim and Gilbert Ryle. Published by Macmillan. And “Contemporary Philosophy” by Frederick Copleston. Published by S.J. Burns & Oates. Review published in
Universities Quarterly. Vol 10. No. 4.
BRI 3/5/38 – BRI 3/5/44: July 1956: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, notes in pencil and ink, 6f. KWB’s review of “The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism” by Gustav Bergmann. Subject published by Longmans Green & Co., 1954. pp. 341. Review
published in
Philosophy, July 1956. pp. 269-273.
BRI 3/5/45: July 1956: Paper, two sections taped together, tape yellowing, notes in ink, 1f. KWB’s review of “Causality in Natural Science” by V.F. Lenzen. Subject published by Springfield, Ill., USA. C.W. Thomas; and Oxford; Blackwell Scientific
Publications Ltd., 1954. Pp. 121. Review published in
Mind, July 1956. Pp. 414 – 415. Written from King's College, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
BRI 3/5/46 – BRI 3/5/53: April 1957: Paper, rust marks and damage to left edge, 8f. “Feelings and Their Expression” by KWB.
Philosophy, Vol. XXXII., No. 121, pp. 97-111.
BRI 3/5/54 – BRI 3/5/56: 1957?: Paper, rust marks and damage to left edge, 3f. “Philosophy and Poetry” by KWB.
Philosophy. Pp. 74-76. Written from King's College Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
BRI 3/5/57 – BRI 3/5/67: 1957: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, notes in pencil and ink, 11f. Entry for
Encyclopaedia Britannica on Logical Positivism, Vol. XIV. Pp. 332 – 334.
BRI 3/5/68 – BRI 3/5/69: 1957: Paper, rust marks to top left corner and left edge, 2f. Entry for
Encyclopaedia Britannica on Materialism in philosophy. Vol. XV. p.50.
BRI 3/5/70: 1957: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, 1f. Entry for
Encyclopaedia Britannica on Positivism. Vol. XVIII. p. 302.
BRI 3/5/71 – BRI 3/5/72: 1957?: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner,2f. KWB’s review of “Light and Enlightenment” by Rosalie L. Colie. Subject published by Cambridge University Press, 1957. Review published in
The Baptist Times.
BRI 3/5/73 – BRI 3/5/76: July 1957: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink and pencil, 4f. KWB’s review of “The Structure of Metaphysics” by Morris Lazerowitz. Subject published in
International Library of Psychology and Philosophy. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955. Review published in Philosophy. Vol., XXXII, pp. 264-267.
BRI 3/5/77 – BRI 3/5/78: 3 October 1957: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 2f. KWB’s review of “Words and Images” by E.L. Mascall. Subject published by Longmans Green & Co., 1957. Review published in
The Baptist Times.
BRI 3/5/79 – BRI 3/5/83: October 1957: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink and pencil, 5f. KWB’s review of “On the Knowledge of Good and Evil” by Philip Blair Rice. Subject published by New York: Random House, 1955. pp. 202. Review
published in
Mind LXVI, October 1957. pp. 568-570.
BRI 3/5/84 – BRI 3/5/91: 8 March 1958: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, note in ink and pencil, 8f. “J.S. Mill: A Debating Speech on Wordsworth, 1829”, by KWB.
The Cambridge Review, 8 March 1958. Pp. 418-423.
BRI 3/5/92 – BRI 3/5/95: June 1958: Paper, rust marks and damage to left side, 4f. “R.B.Braithwaite as an Apologist for Religious Belief”, by KWB.
The Durham University Journal, Vol. L., No.3., (New Series Vol. XIX., No.3., pp. 97-104.
BRI 3/5/96 – BRI 3/5/108: April 1959?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, 13f. KWB’s review of “A Study in Ethical Theory”, by D.M. Mackinnon. Subject published by A.&C. Black, 1957. Review published by
Philosophy, Vol. XXXIV., No.129. pp. 159-164.
BRI 3/5/109 – BRI 3/5/112: July 1959?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, 4f. KWB’s review of “Ludwig Wittgenstein – A Memoir”, by Norman Malcolm. Subject published by Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. 100-112. Review published
Philosophy, Vol. XXIV., No.130., pp.273-278.
Paper file
BRI 4
Britton’s publications, undated and 1960-83. Offprints, where available and typescripts. Arranged chronologically, but dating may not be accurate.
BRI 4/1 1960 - 1963
Publications.
BRI 4/1/1 – BRI 4/1/7: 8 February 1960: Paper pamphlet, rust marks and damage to centre fold, 7f. “Utilitarianism: The Appeal to a First Principle” by KWB. Meeting of the Aristotelian Society at 21 Bedford Square, London WC1 8th February 1960,
7.30pm. pp. 141-154.
BRI 4/1/8: 1960?: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, notes in red pen and pencil, 1f. Entry for
Concise Encyclopaedia of Philosophy on James Mill.
BRI 4/1/9 – BRI 4/1/10: 1958?: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, notes in red pen and pencil, 2f. Entry for
Concise Encyclopaedia of Philosophy on Jeremy Bentham.
BRI 4/1/11 – BRI 4/1/15: 1958-1960?: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, notes in red pen and pencil, 5f. Entry for
Concise Encyclopaedia of Philosophy on Utilitarianism.
BRI 4/1/16 – BRI 4/1/17: 1958-1960?: Paper, Slight rust marks to top left corner, 2f.
Bibliography for Utilitarianism.
BRI 4/1/18 – BRI 4/1/20: July 1960?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in red pen and pencil. KWB’s review of “The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein” by David Pole. Subject published by University of London, 1958. Pp. 132. Review
published in
Philosophy, Vol. XXXV. July 1960.
BRI 4/1/21 – BRI 4/1/22: 1960?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink and pencil, 2f. KWB’s review of “Mind and Matter” by Erwin Schrödinger, a presentation of the Tarner lectures. Subject published by Cambridge University Press,
1958. Review published by
Durham University Journal, Vol., LII. No.3., pp.143 – 144.
BRI 4/1/23 – BRI 4/1/28: 1960?: Paper, notes in ink, 6f.KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill” by Betrand Russell. Subject published in Proceedings, 1955. Review published – unknown.
BRI 4/1/29 – BRI 4/1/37: 17 February 1961: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in red pen, 9f. “Alfred North Whitehead” by KWB. Radio broadcast, Third programme, on 6 March 1961. Published in
Listener Review 9, 1961 (BBC in house radio magazine)
BRI 4/1/38 – BRI 4/1/40: 1961?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink and pencil, 3f. KWB’s review of “Reason and Imagination”, by R.L. Brett. Subject published by Hull University Publications, Oxford University Press, 1960. Review
published – unknown.
BRI 4/1/41 – BRI 4/1/44: 1961?: Paper, rust damage to left side, 4f. “Dorothea Krook’s Three Traditions of Moral Thought” by KWB. Published in
Philosophy, 1961.
BRI 4/1/45 – BRI 4/1/62: 1962?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 17f. “Contemporary Ethical Philosophy in England”, by KWB. Published in
Evangelische Ethick.
BRI 4/1/63 – BRI 4/1/67: 1963?: Paper pamphlet, rust marks and damage to centre fold, 5f. “On Knowing the Difference Between Right and Wrong”, by KWB. Inaugural Address.
BRI 4/1/68 – BRI 4/1/70: 1961-962?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink and pencil, 3f. KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill and the Harriet Taylor Myth” by H.O. Pappe. Subject published by Australian National University (Cambridge
University Press), 1960. Review published in
Philosophy Vol. XXXVIII, July 1963. Pp.280-1.
BRI 4/1/71 – BRI 4/1/73: 1963?: Paper, slight damage to top left corner, extensive notes in ink, 3f. KWB’s comments on “The Early Draft of John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography”. Edited by Jack Stillinger. Published by University of Illinois Press,
1961. Review published in
Notes and Queries, January 1963. Pp.34-36.
BRI 4/1/74 – BRI 4/1/76: 6 January 1962: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, 3f. KWB’s review of “Ethics since 1900”, by Mary Warnock. Subject published by Oxford University Press (Home University Library), 1960. Pp. 212. Review
published in the
Durham University Journal.
BRI 4/1/77 – BRI 4/1/78: 25 September 1962: Paper, slight marks to top left corner, notes in ink. 2f. KWB’s review of “Reason and Morals” and “Philosophy and Religion” by John Wilson. Reason and Morals published by Cambridge University Press,
1961. Philosophy and Religion Published by Oxford University Press, 1961. Review published
Durham University Journal.
BRI 4/1/79 – BRI 4/1/80: 1963?: Paper, rust damage to top and bottom left corners, 2f. KWB’s review of “Poetry and Philosophy” by Thomas Woods. Subject published by London: Hutchinson & Co. 1961. Pp. 207. Review Published in
Philosophy, October 1963.
Paper file
BRI 4/2 1964 - 1970
Publications.
BRI 4/2/1: October 1964: Paper, magazine booklet, rust marks and damage to centre fold, 22 leaves. “The Private World”, by KWB. The Methodist Magazine, October 1964, pp. 369-373. Includes compliments slip from The Epworth Press.
BRI 4/2/2 – BRI 4/2/4: January 1964: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, notes in pen, 3f. KWB’s review of “Matthew Arnold and the Decline of English Romanticism” by D.G. James. Subject published by Clarendon Press, 1961. Review published in
Philosophy, Jan 1964. pp. 90-91.
BRI 4/2/5 – BRI 4/2/8: October 1964: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in pen, 4f. KWB’s review of “Logic and Criticism” by William Righter. Subject published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963. Review published in Philosophy,
October 1964, pp. 367-369.
BRI 4/2/9: Autumn 1965: Paper, newsletter booklet, rust marks and damage to centre fold, 10 leaves. ‘Mill’s Debating Speeches’ by KWB and John M. Robson, The Mill News Letter, Vol1. No. 1, Fall 1965, pp. 2-6. Includes detailed list of speeches
and evidence for them.
BRI 4/2/10 – BRI 4/2/11: 1965?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 2f. KWB’s review of “Sexual Morality” by Ronald Atkinson. Subject published by Hutchinson’s, London, 1965. Review published – unknown.
BRI 4/2/12 – BRI 4/2/13: 1965: Paper, slight rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in pen, 2f. KWB’s review of “Is Metaphysics Possible?” by Pratima Bowes. Subject published by Gollancz. Review published in Listener, 1965. pp. 98.
BRI 4/2/14: November 1965: Paper, booklet, rust marks and damage to centre fold and right hand edges, 20 leaves. KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill” by John B. Ellery. Subject published New York, Twayne Publishers Inc. 1964. Review published in
Notes and Queries, Vol. 12., No. 11., November 1965, pp. 436-438.
BRI 4/2/15 – BRI 4/2/18: 1966?: Paper, rust marks to left hand side, 4f. “The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill” by KWB, Philosophy, pp. 174-179.BRI 4/2/19 – BRI 4/2/20: 1967: Paper, rust marks to top and bottom left corners, notes in pen and
highlighted, 2f. Entry on Logical Positivism for Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1967, pp. 237-239.
BRI 4/2/21: 1967: Paper, rust marks to top and bottom right hand corners, highlighted, 1f. Entry on Materialism for Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1967, p. 1059.
BRI 4/2/22: 1967: Paper, rust marks to top and bottom right hand corners, highlighted, 1f. Entry on Positivism for Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1967, p. 305.
BRI 4/2/23 – BRI 4/2/24: November 1969: Paper, wear to edges, 2f. Obituary for Peter Ure by KWB. In newsletter for University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1969.
BRI 4/2/25: Spring 1970: Paper, newsletter booklet, rust marks to centre fold, 10f. “Perpetuating a Mistake about Mill’s Three Essays on Religion” by KWB, The Mill News Letter, Vol. 5., No. 2., Spring 1970., pp. 6-7.
BRI 4/2/26: December 1970: Paper, catalogue booklet, rust marks and damage to centre fold, 10f. Foreword to catalogue on a Murray McCheyne sculpture exhibition in the Laing Art Gallery.
BRI 4/2/27 – BRI 4/2/29: 1970?: Paper, rust mark and damage to top left corner and left edge, notes in pen, 3f. KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill” by Alan Ryan. Subject published Macmillan & Co. London, 1970. Review published Philosophy, pp.
338-340.
BRI 4/2/30 – BRI 4/2/31. 1970?: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, 2f. KWB’s review of “Collected Works of John Stuart Mill” Vol. X., eds. Prof. J M. Robson, Prof. F E L. Priestley, Prof. D P. Dryer. Subject published by London,
University of Toronto Press and Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Review published Philosophy, 1970, pp. 252-253.
Paper file
BRI 4/3 1971 - 1974
Publications.
BRI 4/3/1 – BRI 4/3/2: 1971?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 2f. KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill: A Critical Study” by H. J. McCloskey. Subject published by Macmillan, 1971. pp. 186. Review published in Philosophy, 1971. pp. 280-281.
BRI 4/3/3 – BRI 4/3/4: October 1971: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, 2f. KWB’s reviews of “The Burning Fountain: A Study in the Language of Symbolism” and “Metaphor and Reality” both by Philip WheeWittgensteinright and
published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington and London, 1968. Review published in Notes and Queries, October 1971, pp. 388-399.
BRI 4/3/5: 29 January 1973: Paper, pamphlet, rust marks to centrefold, copious notes in pen and pencil on back folios, 8f. “Concepts of Action and Concepts of Approval” by KWB. Meeting of the Aristotelian Society, 5/7 Tavistock Place, London,
WC1. Monday 29th January 1973, 7.30pm. pp. 105-117.
BRI 4/3/6 – BRI 4/3/15: 1973?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, use of correction fluid, 10f. “J S Mill 1873 – 1973” by KWB, article for Wijsgerig Perspectief (Philosophical Perspective) for the centenary of JS Mill’s death.
BRI 4/3/16: 8 May 1972: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, notes in pen, 1f. Letter to KWB from Professor C. A. Van Peursen asking him to write an article for Wijsgerig Perspectief (Philosophical Perspective) on JS Mill. KWB’s draft reply on
reverse in pencil.
BRI 4/3/17: 12 May 1972: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, 1f. KWB’s reply to BRI 4/3/16, agreeing to write the article requested.
BRI 4/3/18: 7 September 1973: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, 1f. Letter from KWB to Prof. C. A. Van Peursen thanking him for the fee for the article on JS Mill and requesting a copy of the journal.
BRI 4/3/19 – BRI 4/3/20: February 1973: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, 2f. KWB’s review of “The Possibility of Criticism” by Monroe C. Beardsley. Subject published by Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970. pp. 123. Review
published in Notes and Queries, February 1973. pp. 78-79.
BRI 4/3/21: October 1973: Paper, folded sheet, slight rust marks to top left corner, 2f. Off print of Mind, Vol. LXXXII, N.S., No. 328, October 1973 containing KWB’s review of “The Perfectibility of Man” by John Passmore. Subject published by
London, Duckworth, 1970. pp. 396. Review published in Mind.
BRI 4/3/22 – BRI 4/3/27: 1973?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, note in pen, 6f. KWB’s review of “The Philosophy of Religion” by Ninian Smart. Subject published by New York, Random House, 1970. pp. vii, 197. Review published in
Philosophical Review, April 1973, pp. 263-266.
BRI 4/3/28 – BRI 4/3/33: 13 July 1973: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pencil, 6f. KWB’s review of “Sincerity and Authenticity” by Lionel Trilling. Subject published by London: Oxford University Press, 1972; pp. x, 188. Review
published in Notes and Queries, 13 July 1973. Includes letter from KWB to publisher requesting amendments to review.
BRI 4/3/34 – BRI 4/3/38: November 1971: Paper, slight damage and rust marks to top left corner, 5f. “John Stuart Mill: Bibliography” by KWB for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
BRI 4/3/39: 1974?: Paper, marks in red pen, 1f. KWB’s review of “The Devil in Modern Philosophy” by Ernest Gellner. Subject and Review published – unknown.
BRI 4/3/40 – BRI 4/2/51: October 1974: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 9f. KWB’s review of “The Later Letter of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873” eds. Francis Mineka and Dwight Lindley. Subject published by University of Toronto Press and
Routledge & Kegan Paul. Review published in Philosophy, Vol. 49., No. 196. pp. 442-447.
BRI 4/3/52 – BRI 4/3/55: April 1974: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink, 4f. KWB’s review of “Henry Sidgwick, Science and Faith in Victorian England” by D. G. James. Subject published by Oxford University Press, 1970. pp. xvi-64.
Review published in Philosophy Vol. 49,. No. 188., pp. 217-219.
Paper file
BRI 4/4 1975 - 1977
Publications.
BRI 4/4/1: 8 December 1975: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, notes in red pen, 1f. KWB’s review of “Simplicity” by Elliott Sober. Review published in British Books News
BRI 4/4/2 – BRI 4/4/3: 4 April 1975?: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, pencil marks to bottom left corner, note in pen on reverse, 2f. KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill: Three Essays” intro Richard Wollheim. Subject published by Oxford
University Press, 1975, pp. xxv-550. Review published in Philosophy.
BRI 4/4/4 – BRI 4/4/10: 1976: Paper, rust damage to left hand side, rust mark to right hand side, 7f. “John Stuart Mill on Christianity” by KWB for ‘James and J. S. Mill’ Toronto, 1976. pp.21-34.
BRI 4/4/11: 21 February 1976: Paper, notes in pen and pencil, 1f. KWB’s review of “The Presumption of Atheism, and other Philosophical Essays on God, Freedom and Immortality” by Antony Flaw. Review published in British Books News
BRI 4/4/12 – BRI 4/4/15: 18 March 1976: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 3f. KWB’s review of “On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill” by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Subject published London: Martin Secker and Warburg
Ltd. pp. 345. Review published in Philosophy.
BRI 4/4/16 – BRI 4/4/17: 1 September 1976: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 2f. KWB’s review of “Experience and Conduct, A Philosophical Enquiry Into Practical Thinking” by Stephan Korner. Review published in British
Books News.
BRI 4/4/18: February 1976: Paper, two sections taped together, notes in pencil, 1f. KWB’s review of “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan” by Hugo A. Meynell. Review published in British Books News.
BRI 4/4/19 – BRI 4/4/20: April 1976: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, rust marks to right hand side, 2f. KWB’s review of “J. S. Mill” by Alan Ryan. Subject published London and Boston: Routledge, 1974. pp. xii-283. Review published in
Modern Language Review, April 1976.
BRI 4/4/21: 10 June 1976: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, notes in red pen, 1f. KWB’s review of “Imagination” by Mary Warnock. Review published in British Books News.
BRI 4/4/22 – BRI 4/4/29: 1977?: Paper and card, rust damage to left hand edge, pamphlet with blue card covers, 8f + 2card covers. “Symbols” by KWB.
BRI 4/4/30: October 1977: Paper, signature in pen, 1f. Letter to KWB from Mary (Dept. Philosophy Newcastle University) making observation on offprint (BRI 4/4/31 – BRI 4/4/34).
BRI 4/4/31 – BRI 4/4/34: August 1977: Paper, rust damage to left hand side, rust marks to top right corner, 5f. “Hume on some Non-Natural Distinctions” by KWB. Offprint from “David Hume”, published by Edinburgh University Press, August 1977. pp.
205-209.
BRI 4/4/35 – BRI 4/4/37: February 1977: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, page sections taped together, notes in pen and pencil, 3f. Commentary on paintings by Willy Fries.
BRI 4/4/38 - BRI 4/4/41: 4 April 1977: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen and pencil, 4f. KWB’s review of “James and John Stuart Mill, Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century” by Bruce Mazlish. Subject published London:
Hutchinson, 1975. pp. xii-484. Review published in Philosophy.
BRI 4/4/42 – BRI 4/4/43: January 1977: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, marks to left hand side, 2f. KWB’s review of “Hume and the Enlightenment: Essays presented to Ernest Campbell Mossner” ed. William B. Todd. Subject published Edinburgh
University Press, Austin, The University of Texas Humanities Research Centre. 1975. pp. viii-215. Review published in Modern Language Review Jan 1977.
Paper file
BRI 4/5 1978 - 1983
Publications.
BRI 4/5/1: 1978: Paper booklet, yellow card covers, rust damage to left hand side, 13 pages + 2 covers. “Charlie Dunbar Broad 1887-1971” by KWB. From the proceedings of the British Academy, London, Vol. LXIV (1978).
BRI 4/5/2 – BRI 4/5/4: October - December 1978: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, notes in pen. KWB’s comments and notes on the three addresses made by Canon Peter Selby to the congregation – location unknown.
BRI 4/5/5 – BRI 4/5/9: 9 December 1977: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 5f. KWB’s review of “Sidgwick’s Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy” by J. B. Schneewind. Subject published Clarendon Press, 1977. pp. xvi-465. Review
published in Philosophy, Jan 1978.
BRI 4/5/10 – BRI 4/5/15: 1979: Paper, rust damage to left hand side, rust marks to top right corner, 6f. “Symbolic Action and Objects: ‘The weak pipe and the little drum’” by KWB. Published in Philosophy, Vol. 54, 1979. pp. 281-291.
BRI 4/5/16: November 1979: Paper, notes in pencil and pen, 1f. “What is ‘Marbeck’?” by KWB. An explanation of what a Marbeck musical arrangement of church services is.
BRI 4/5/17 – BRI 4/5/21: August 1978?: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, 5f. KWB’s review of “Rights and Persons” by A. I. Melden. Subject published by Blackwell, 1977. Review published in Philosophy, Jan 1979.
BRI 4/5/22 – BRI 4/5/25: October 1979: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, notes in pencil and pen, 5f. KWB’s review of “Essays on Philosophy and the Classics by John Stuart Mill (Collected works Vol. XI) eds. J. W. Robson and F. E. Sparshott.
Subject published by University of Toronto Press and Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1978. Review published in Philosophy, Oct 1979. pp. 561-65.
BRI 4/5/27: 21 January 1980: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 1f. KWB’s review of “Cornelius Ernst: Multiple Echo, Explorations in Theology”. Eds. Unknown. Publishers unknown.
BRI 4/5/28 – BRI 4/5/30: 19 August 1980: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 3f. KWB’s review of “An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy by John Stuart Mill” (Collected Works Vol. IX), eds. J. M. Robson and Alan Ryan.
Subject published University of Toronto Press and Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, pp. cviii – 625. Review published in Philosophy, 1980.
BRI 4/5/31 – BRI 4/5/33: March 1980?: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, 3f. KWB’s review of “The Philosophic Radicals: Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817-1841” by William Thomas. Subject published by Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1979. pp. xii-491. Review published in Philosophy.
BRI 4/5/34 – BRI 4/5/36: 20 November 1981: Paper, rust damage to left hand edge, slight discolouration to bottom right corner, 3f. “A Sense of Providence” by KWB. Published in The Cambridge Review, Nov 1980.
BRI 4/5/37: October 1981: Paper, rust damage to top right corner, notes in pen, 1f. KWB’s review of “Theology and Philosophical Inquiry” by Vincent Brummer. Review published in British Books News, Oct 1981.
BRI 4/5/38: 1981: Paper, rust marks to top left corner edge, 1f. KWB’s review of “The Politics of Culture and Other Essays” by Roger Scruton. Review published British Books News, 1981.
BRI 4/5/39 – BRI 4/5/50: 1982: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen and pencil, 12f. “Reflections Cambridge 1828-32” by KWB. Published in the Cambridge Review Nov.1982.
BRI 4/5/51 – BRI 4/5/52: 26 July 1982: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pencil, 2f. KWB’s review of “Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England” by Maurice Cowling. Subject published Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
pp. xxiv-475. Review published in Cambridge Review, Nov 1982. Typewritten version of BRI 4/5/59-BRI 4/5/63.
BRI 4/5/53 – BRI 4/5/54: 1982: Paper, sight rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 2f. KWB’s review of “An introduction to the philosophy of religion” by Brian Davies. Review Published in British Books News, 1982.
BRI 4/5/55 – BRI 4/5/56: 1982: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 2f. KWB’s review of “ The Philosophical Frontiers of Christian Theology, Essays presented to D.M. MacKinnon” eds. Brian Hebblethwaite and Stewart Sutherland. Review published in
British Books News, Aug 1982.
BRI 4/5/57 – BRI 4/5/58: January - February 1982: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, smudges along top edge, 2f. Two copies of KWB’s review of “Thoughts and Thinkers” by Anthony Quinton. Review published in British Books News, 1982.
BRI 4/5/59 – BRI 4/5/63: 19 November 1982: Paper, rust marks to left hand edge, discolouration to right hand side, 5f. KWB’s review of “Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England”, by Maurice Cowling. Subject published Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1980. pp. xxiv-475. Review published in Cambridge Review, Nov 1982. Print version of BRI4/5/51-BRI 4/5/52.
BRI 4/5/64 – BRI 4/5/68: 10 December 1982: Paper, slight rust damage to top left corner, notes in pen, 5f. KWB’s review of “John Stuart Mill, Collected Works” eds. John. M. Robson and Jack Stillinger. Subject published University of Toronto Press
and Routledge and Kegan Paul. Review published unknown.
BRI 4/5/69: 1982: Paper, folded pamphlet, slight discolouration to top right corner, 2f. Index to “Philosophical Investigation”, ed. D.Z.Phillips. Vol. 5, 1982.
BRI 4/5/70: January 1983: Paper, book – blue and white cover, slight staining to bottom edge, minor discolouration, 76 pages. “Philosophical Investigations”, ed. D.Z. Philips. Vol. 6. No. 1. Jan 1983. Includes KWB’s review of “Moral Luck,
Philosophical Papers 1973-1980” by Bernard Williams. Subject published Cambridge University Press, 1981. pp. xiii-173.
Paper file
BRI 5
Unpublished works and lectures, arranged chronologically.
BRI 5/1 1933 - 1948
Unpublished writings.
BRI 5/1/1: 1933: Card folder, rust marks top right hand corner, worn edges, notes in green ink, 2f. Notes read Karl Britton, I-42 Winthrop House, Cambridge. Mass. Folder contains typescript, notes and letters regarding a study on language. (BRI
5/1/2 – BRI 5/1/69)
BRI 5/1/2: 18 April 1934: Paper, 1f. Note from G. E. Moore at 86, Chesterton Road, Cambridge to KWB regarding considering the paper for Mind having received it via Broad.
BRI 5/1/3 – BRI 5/1/68: December 1933: Paper, slight wear to edges, a few notes in pencil, 65f. Typescript of an untitled paper. Part I ‘On the Analysis of Prepositions’, Part II ‘Language in its Private Aspects’.
BRI 5/1/69: unknown: Paper, written in pencil, slight wear to edges, 1f. Notes on previous paper including suggestions for changes.
BRI 5/1/70: 1960: Blue card folder, rust marks to right edge, 2f. Contains typescript and notes on ‘Thoughts and Feelings, Cambridge 1948. Re-used Department of Extra-Mural studies Report 1959-60 for University of Durham, King's College. (BRI
5/1/71 – BRI 5/1/82)
BRI 5/1/71: March 1948: Paper, written in blue ink with pencil notes, slight wear, 1f. Notes on ‘Thoughts and Feelings’.
BRI 5/1/72 – BRI 5/1/82: 1948: Paper, slight wear, notes in pencil and ink, 11f. Typescript of ‘Thoughts and Feelings by KWB.
BRI 5/1/83: Before 1951: Grey card folder, wear and rust marks to right edge, notes in blue ink, 2f. Contains notes and typescript on ‘The Benthamites’ by KWB. Re-used college exam cover for Douglas Arthur Henley at University College Swansea.
(BRI 5/1/84 – BRI 5/1/117)
BRI 5/1/84: unknown: Paper, slight wear, ink and pencil notes, 1f. Notes in Logic and Benthamism on a re-used Baptist Jubilee Extension Effort (Southend District) paper.
BRI 5/1/85 – BRI 5/1/117: Before 1951: Paper, slight wear and staining, notes in pen and pencil, 35f. Typescript of ‘The Benthamites’ by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 5/2 1950 - 1952
Unpublished writings.
BRI 5/2/1 – BRI 5/2/13: 1950-51: Paper, rust damage to top right corner, worn edges, notes in pen and pencil, 13f. Notes and typescript of ‘The English Utilitarians’ by KWB.
BRI 5/2/14 – BRI 5/2/21: 1951: Paper, rust marks and damage to top right corner, worn edges, 8f. Notes and typescript of ‘God and Nature’ by KWB.
BRI 5/2/22 – BRI 5/2/55: 1952: Paper, damage to top right corner, slight rust marks to top right corner, worn edges, 34f. Handwritten draft of ‘The Philosopher’ by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 5/3 1953
Unpublished writings.
BRI 5/3/1: 1953: Paper, rust and physical damage to top right corner, worn edges, 1f. Outline of the contents of six lectures on philosophy.
BRI 5/3/2 – BRI 5/3/46: Paper, rust marks and damage to top right corner, worn edges, 45f. Handwritten notes by KWB on the content of the lectures outlined in BRI 5/3/1.
BRI 5/3/47: 28 January 1953: Paper, notes in ink, 1f. Letter from J. H. Fleming, Assistant Secretary to the Rotary Club of Carlisle to KWB regarding KWB’s agreement to speak at their luncheon on 11 March. Reverse of letter is covered in notes on
the speech.
BRI 5/3/48 – BRI 5/3/50: 1953: Paper, slight rust marks and damage to top right corner, 3f. Expanded notes on the speech outlined in BRI 5/3/47.
Paper file
BRI 5/4 1954 - 1955
Unpublished writings.
BRI 5/4/1 – BRI 5/4/16: 1 October 1954: Paper, rust marks to top right corner, notes in ink and pencil, 16f. ‘Education, Scholarship and Research’ by KWB.
BRI 5/4/17: 1954: Beige card folder, worn right hand edge, 2f. Labelled ‘Imagination 1954 and later version K W Britton’. Contains notes on several articles on the theme of Imagination by KWB. (BRI 5/4/18 – BRI 5/4/46)
BRI 5/4/18 - BRI 5/4/30: unknown: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in ink and pencil, some pages taped together, 13f. ‘Imagination’ by KWB.
BRI 5/4/31 – BRI 5/4/40: 25 September 1954: Paper, rust marks to top right corner, some sections taped or pasted over others, 10f. ‘Imagination & Language’ by KWB.
BRI 5/4/41 – BRI 5/4/45: unknown: Paper, rust marks to top right corner, notes in pen and pencil, 5f. Untitled, potentially a speech, on Imagination.
BRI 5/4/46: July 1954: Paper, rust marks to top right corner, worn edges, 1f. Notes on imagination and poetry on the reverse of a University of Durham Congregation Notice for 2 July 1954.
BRI 5/4/47 – BRI 5/4/64: 1955: Paper, rust mark to top right corner, notes in ink and pencil, 18f. ‘The Transcendental Element in Religion’ by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 5/5 1956 - 1961
Unpublished writings
BRI 5/5/1 – BRI 5/5/18: 1956: Paper, rust marks to top right corner, some pages taped together, 18f. ‘Morality & Religion’ by KWB.
BRI 5/5/19 – BRI 5/5/42: 29 January 1958: Paper, rust marks to top right corner, worn edges, 24f. ‘Religious Belief and Moral Principle’ by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 5/6 1963 - 1971
Unpublished writings.
BRI 5/6/1: 1963?: Beige card folder, worn right hand edge, some rust marks and partial mug ring, 2f. Labelled ‘David Hume on Religion and Morality’ by Professor K. W. Britton. Contains an article and notes on the above title. (BRI 5/6/2 – BRI
5/6/39).
BRI 5/6/2 – BRI 5/6/18: 1963-4: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, slight wear to edges, notes in pen and pencil, 17f. ‘Hume on Religion and Morality’ by KWB. Part of article, draft of sections 1-13.
BRI 5/6/19: 1963-4: Paper, slight rust mark to top left corner, worn edges, written in ink, 1f. Part of ‘Hume on Religion and Morality’ by KWB.
BRI 5/6/20 – BRI 5/6/24: 1963-4: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen and pencil, 5f. Part of ‘Hume on Religion and Morality’ by KWB. A draft of sections 6-8.
BRI 5/6/25 – BRI 5/6/26: 1963-4: Paper, notes in pen and pencil, 2f. End section of ‘Hume on Religion and Morality’ by KWB.
BRI 5/6/27 – BRI 5/6/33: September 1963: Paper, worn edges, notes in pen, 7f. Handwritten notes by KWB on ‘David Hume on Religion and Morality’ setting out structure of article.
BRI 5/6/34 – BRI 5/6/39: 1963-4: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 6f. Notes by KWB on Popular Religion. Notes are on the back of University of Newcastle paper, including one letter regarding new university letter headings.
BRI 5/6/40 – BRI 5/6/43: 1968: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 4f. Handwritten notes by KWB on ‘Practical Questions’. Labelled Vienna, 1968.
BRI 5/6/44 – BRI 5/6/45: 1968: Paper, slight staining to top edge, notes in pen, 2f. Typed summary of ‘Practical Questions’.
BRI 5/6/46: 10 November 1969: Paper, 1f. Letter to KWB from Prof. DDr. Leo Gabriel in German regarding the XIV. Internationaler Kongress für Philosophie and apologies that they will not be able to publish KWB’s ‘Practical Questions”.
BRI 5/6/47: 8 November 1968: Paper, 1f. Letter to KWB from Dr. Ulrike Angsüsser in German regarding the XIV. Internationaler Kongress für Philosophie and thanking KWB for his assistance and participation.
BRI 5/6/48: 1971: Beige card folder, rust marks to top left corner and left edge, 2f. Labelled ‘The Good is What God Orders. KWB 1971’. Contains article by KWB with the above title (BRI 5/6/49 – BRI 5/6/67).
BRI 5/6/49 – BRI 5/6/67: 1971: Paper, notes in pen, 19f. ‘The Good is What God Orders’ by KWB.
BRI 5/6/68 – BRI 5/6/85: April 1971: Paper, rust marks and damage to left corner and edge, 18f. ‘Religion and the Meaning of Life’ by KWB. Mixture of handwritten, typed and printed notes.
BRI 5/6/86 – BRI 5/6/106: After 1972: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, staining to body of pages, some pages taped together, notes in pen, 21f. Untitled article on novels.
Paper file
BRI 5/7 1973 - 1976
Unpublished writings.
BRI 5/7/1: November 1973: Blue card folder, slight rust marks to left side, mug ring staining to front cover, slight wear to right edge, 2f. Labelled ‘John Stuart Mill on Christianity K.W. Britton Leeds Version November 1973 (Revised April 1975).
Contains above named article and notes and letters relating to it (BRI 5/7/2 – BRI 5/7/37)
BRI 5/7/2: 9 November 1976: paper, rust mark to top left corner, slight wear to edges, 1f. Letter to KWB from Knut Erik Tranoy at the University of Bergen regarding the paper with some suggestions to issues with the concepts of faith, hope and
love.
BRI 5/7/3 – BRI 5/7/29: November 1973: Paper, slight damage to punch holes in left hand side, some rust marks to top left corners, notes in pen and pencil, some pages taped together, 27f. ‘John Stuart Mill on Christianity’ by KWB, mixture of
typed and handwritten work for the same article.
BRI 5/7/30 – BRI 5/7/37: November 1973: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, 8f. Notes for John Stuart Mill and Christianity by KWB.
BRI 5/7/38 – BRI 5/7/54: 8 March 1975: Paper, rust marks to left edge, 17f. ‘Who said that morality is a department of culture?’ by KWB. Notes for an address to a conference.
BRI 5/7/55: 8 March 1975: Yellow paper, rust marks to top left corner, 1f. Flyer for Philosophy Day Conference 8th March 1975, includes timetable and mentions KWB giving the ‘Who said morality was a department of culture?’ paper.
BRI 5/7/56 – BRI 5/7/62: January 1976: Paper, rust mark to top left corner, notes in pen and pencil, some slight staining to pages. 7f. ‘Some Non-Natural Distinctions’ by KWB.
BRI 5/7/63 – BRI 5/7/83: December 1976: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in pen and pencil, some pages taped together, 21f. ‘Further Notes on “The Meaning of Life”’ by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 5/8 1978 - 1982
Unpublished writings.
BRI 5/8/1 – BRI 5/8/9: April 1978: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, some pages consists of sections taped together, 8f. Article by KWB on ‘symbolic actions’.
BRI 5/8/10 – BRI 5/8/11: (undated): Paper, rust marks to top edge, spot marks on paper, 2f. Letter to KWB from Mary (?) on the article he has sent including criticisms on some of his points and suggestion he has misrepresented something she has
said.
BRI 5/8/12: (undated): Paper, rust marks to top edge, spot marks to bottom edge, 1f. Notes by KWB on article.
BRI 5/8/13 – BRI 5/8/27: (undated): Paper, rust marks to top left corner, staining to first page, notes in pen, 15f. Article by KWB on views on morality expressed by Kant and Hume.
BRI 5/8/28 – BRI 5/8/46: (December 1980): Paper, rust marks and damage to top edge, slighting staining to paper, notes in pen and pencil, 23f. “Father and Son: The Ordeal of John Stuart Mill” by KWB.
BRI 5/8/47 – BRI 5/8/65: Autumn 1982: Paper, rust marks on top left corner, notes in pen, 18f. Two copies of “Patterns” by KWB. One original draft, one revised version.
BRI 5/8/66 – BRI 5/8/76: 1982: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, some sections tapes together, 11f. “On The Meaning of Life” by KWB.
BRI 5/8/77 – BRI 5/8/85: After 1981: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, some sections taped together, ntoes in pen and pencil, 9f. Untitled article by KWB dealing with the concept of wonder.
Paper file
BRI 5/9 [?1970s]
“Concepts” – drafts and carbons of an unpublished book? Which became “Concepts of Vice and Virtue” (BRI 6/1)
BRI 5/9/1: undated: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 24f. “Chapter 2: Kinds of Concepts.” Complete carbon from “Concepts” un-published book by KWB.
BRI 5/9/25 – BRI 5/9/49: undated: Paper, rust marks to top edge, notes in pen and pencil, 25f. Incomplete carbon of Chapter 3 from “Concepts” un-published book by KWB.
BRI 5/9/50 – BRI 5/8/69: undated: Paper, rust marks to top edge, notes in pen and pencil, 20f. “Chapter 5: Moral Concepts: Understanding and Acceptance” from “Concepts” un-published book by KWB.
BRI 5/9/70 – BRI 5/9/96: undated: Paper, rust marks to top left corner and left hand side, notes in pen, 27f. Unnumbered chapter: Moral Concepts: Form and Content from Concepts” un-published book by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 5/10 [1950s x 1980s]
Unpublished writings, undated.
BRI 5/10/1 – BRI 5/10/12: undated: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, slight wear to edges of paper, written in blue ink and pencil, 12f. “Christianity & Philosophy” by KWB.
BRI 5/10/13 – BRI 5/10/37: undated: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, notes in pen and pencil, 24f. “The Further Education of John Stuart Mill” by KWB.
BRI 5/10/38 – BRI 5/10/43: undated: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, written in ink, 6f. Notes on the topic of right, wrong and God’s will.
BRI 5/10/44 – BRI 5/10/48: undated: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, slight wear to bottom edges, written in blue ink, 5f. “Moral Essays: Principles and Intentions.” By KWB.
BRI 5/10/49 – BRI 5/10/58: undated: Paper, slight rust marks to top left corner, staining to pages, notes in pen, 10f. “The Responsibilities of Christians in the Academic Community” by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 6
Unpublished works and lectures, topically arranged.
BRI 6/1 [c.1970 - 1973]
Concepts of Vice + Virtue to April 1973 (NB Drafts and carbons in BRI 5/9)
BRI 6/1/1 – BRI 6/1/24: unknown: Paper, rust damage to top edge, staining to left edge, wear to right edge, notes in ink, 24f. ‘Are Our General Beliefs and Principles of Action Determined By Our Society?’ typescript of chapter by KWB.
BRI 6/1/25: unknown: Paper, rust damage to top edge, 1f. Notes on BRI 6/1/1 – BRI 6/1/24.
BRI 6/1/26: unknown: Card folder, rust marks to top edge, notes in pencil, 2f. Notes read ‘Kinds of Concepts Ch2 typescript’ ‘KW Britton, Harthorne, Riding Mill, Northumberland’. Contains typescript for chapter Kinds of Concepts BRI 6/1/27 – BRI
6/1/50.
BRI 6/1/27 – BRI 6/1/50: Paper, slight staining to edges, notes in ink and pencil, 24f. ‘Chapter 2: Kinds of Concepts’ typescript of chapter by KWB.
BRI 6/1/51: unknown: Card folder, wear and discolouration to edges, metallic gold coloured sticker in centre, notes in pen, 2f. Notes read ‘Chapter 3’. Contains typescript for chapter Action and Appraisal BRI 6/1/52 – BRI 6/1/78.
BRI 6/1/52 – BRI 6/1/78: 1972: Paper, slight staining and wear to edges, notes in pen and pencil, 24f. ‘Actions and Approval’ typescript of chapter by KWB.
BRI 6/1/79: unknown: Card folder, wear and staining to edges, notes in pencil, 2f. Notes read ‘Ch4 Top Copy Concepts of Virtue & Vice’. Contains print of Concepts of Action and Approval BRI 6/1/80 – BRI 6/1/83 and typescript of Concepts of
Virtues and Vices BRI 6/1/84 – BRI 6/1/103.
BRI 6/1/80 – BRI 6/1/83: 29 January 1973: Paper, booklet, rust damage to right edge, 8f. ‘Concepts of Action and Concepts of Approval’ by KWB, Meeting of the Aristotelian Society at 5/7, Tavistock Place, London, WC1 on Monday 29th January 1973,
7.30pm.
BRI 6/1/84 – BRI 6/1/103: unknown: Paper, rust marks to left hand edge, notes in pen and pencil, 20f. ‘Chapter 4: Concepts of Virtues and Vices’ typescript of chapter by KWB.
BRI 6/1/104: unknown: Card folder, wear to edges, notes in pencil, 2f. Notes read ‘Chapter 5 Moral Concepts Top Copy’. Contains notes on and Typescript of Moral Concepts: Understanding and Acceptance BRI 6/1/105 – BRI 6/1/125.
BRI 6/1/105: 7 February 1975: Paper, 1f. Notes on BRI 6/1/106-BRI 6/1/125.
BRI 6/1/106 – BRI 6/1/125: unknown: Paper, notes in pen and pencil, 20f. ‘Chapter V: Moral Concepts: Understanding and Acceptance’ typescript of chapter by KWB.
BRI 6/1/126: unknown: Card folder, slight wear to edges, notes in pencil, 2f. Notes read ‘Chapter 6 Moral Concepts: Form & Content’. Contains typescript of Moral Concepts: Form and Content BRI 6/1/127 – BRI 6/1/154.
BRI 6/1/127 – BRI 6/1/154: unknown: Paper, slight discolouration to edges, notes in pen and pencil, 28f. ‘Moral Concepts: Form and Content’ typescript and notes of chapter by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 6/2 1938 - 1939
Lectures on Religion.
BRI 6/2/1 – BRI 6/2/10: 4 January 1938: Paper, rust marks to top right and left corners, 10f. ‘Clear Thinking in Religion’ a lecture by KWB.
BRI 6/2/11 – BRI 6/2/15: unknown: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, wear to pages, 5f. ‘Politics, Ethics & Religion’ a lecture by KWB.
BRI 6/2/16 – BRI 6/2/30: 1938: Paper, rust marks and damage to top right and left corners, wear to edges, notes in pen and pencil, 16f. ‘On the Interpretation of Religious Propositions’.
BRI 6/2/31 – BRI 6/2/56: October 1939: Paper, rust marks and damage to top left corner, slight discolouration of pages, notes in pencil and crayon, 26f. ‘The Early History of Religion’, a lecture by KWB.
Paper file
BRI 6/3 [1930s x 1980s]
Lectures on Wordsworth.
BRI 6/3/1: unknown: Card, rust damage to top left corner, 1f. Family tree of the Wordsworth Family, 19th century entitled ‘Major 19th Century Wordsworths’.
BRI 6/3/2: unknown: Paper, rust damage to right side, slight discolouration to paper, 1f. Notes on John Wordsworth and Christopher Wordsworth.
BRI 6/3/3: unknown: Paper, damage to right side, slight discolouration to paper, 1f. Notes on Charles Wordsworth and Christopher Wordsworth.
BRI 6/3/4 – BRI 6/3/12: unknown: Paper, rust damage to left side, 9f. Untitled lecture by KWB on ‘types of poetry’ and where Wordsworth sits in this scheme.
BRI 6/3/13 – BRI 6/3/24: unknown: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, wear to edges, discolouration to pages, 12f. ‘Recollected in Tranquillity’ lecture by KWB on Wordsworth’s use of ‘poetic language’.
BRI 6/3/25 – BRI 6/3/37: unknown: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, wear to edges, notes in pencil and pen, 11f. ‘Thoughts and Feelings’ First Version, lecture by KWB on the matter of belief in deities.
BRI 6/3/38: unknown: Paper folder, wear and tearing to central divide, notes in pen, 2f. Notes read ‘Text of Lecture One. Wordsworth and His Friends The writing of the ‘Poem to STC’, contains details of lecture on Wordsworth BRI 6/3/37 – BRI
6/3/51.
BRI 6/3/37: unknown: Paper, slight wear to edges, slight discolouration to page, 1f. ‘The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind – List of Books.’
BRI 6/3/38: unknown: Paper, slight wear to edges, slight discolouration to page, 1f. Timeline of significant events in Wordsworth’s life 1770 – 1805.
BRI 6/3/39 – BRI 6/3/51: 1946: Paper, rust damage to left edge, wear to edges, discolouration of pages, notes in pencil and crayon, 13f. ‘Wm Wordsworth and his Friends. The writing of The Prelude’.’ Notes on a lecture by KWB.
BRI 6/3/52: unknown: Paper folder, wear, tearing and rust damage to central divide, discolouration to bottom edge, notes in crayon and pen, 2f. Notes read ‘Lecture 2 The Autobiography (Readings). Contains lecture notes on Wordsworth’s
Autobiography BRI 6/3/53 – BRI 6/3/55.
BRI 6/3/53 – BRI 6/3/55: unknown: Paper, slight rust marking to left side, wear to edges, slight discolouration to pages, 3f. Notes on readings for a lecture on Wordsworth’s Autobiography.
BRI 6/3/56: unknown: Paper folder, rust marks and damage to central divide, notes in crayon, 2f. Notes read ‘Lecture 3 French Revolution’ contains KWB’s lecture notes on Wordsworth and the French Revolution BRI 6/3/57 – BRI 6/3/71.
BRI 6/3/57 – BRI 6/3/71: unknown: Paper, rust marks and damage to left edge, wear to edges, slight discolouration to pages, notes in crayon and pencil, 15f. KWB’s lecture notes on ‘Wordsworth and the French Revolution’. Includes notes and
bibliographies for other lectures.
BRI 6/3/72 – BRI 6/3/87: unknown: Paper, rust marks and damage to left side, wear to edges, discolouration to pages, notes in pencil, 16f. KWB’s lecture notes on ‘Lecture 5 Logic and Poetry: Reason and Imagination.’
BRI 6/3/88: unknown: Paper folder, damage to central divide and top let corner, wear to edges, 2f. Contains KWB’s lecture notes on ‘Poetic Truth: Wordsworth and Coleridge’ BRI 6/3/89 – 6/3/111.
BRI 6/3/89 – BRI 6/3/111: unknown: Paper, rust marks to left side, wear to edges, slight discolouration to pages, 24f. KWB’s lecture notes on ‘Poetic Truth: Wordsworth and Coleridge’
Paper file
BRI 6/4 [?1950s]
Lectures on Meaning and Metaphor.
BRI 6/4/1: 1956: Card folder, spot marks to front and back, notes in pen, 2f. Printed on folder “University of Durham, King’s College Newcastle upon Tyne,1, Letter Jacket”. Notes in pen read “Meaning and Metaphor, Shrewsbury April 1956 Published
in Proceedings, XII International Congress of Philosophy, vol V, p85-91”. Contains 1954 lecture notes and 1956 paper versions on Meaning and Metaphor BRI 6/4/2 – BRI 6/4/96
BRI 6/4/2 – BRI 6/4/16: April 1956: Paper, rust damage to top left hand corner, wear to edges, notes in pen and pencil, 15f. “Meaning and Metaphor” by KWB, a version of a paper given at Shrewbury 1956 at the XXIIth International Congress of
Philosophy.
BRI 6/4/17 – BRI 6/4/48: 21 October 1954: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, wear to edges, notes in pen and pencil, 32f. “Image and Metaphor” by KWB paper given at St. Anne’s House, Soho in 1954.
BRI 6/4/49 – BRI 6/4/51: unknown: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, 3f. Summary of “Statement and Expression” by KWB.
BRI 6/4/52 – BRI 6/4/53: unknown: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, 2f. Notes on BRI 6/4/2 – BRI 6/4/16.
BRI 6/4/54 – BRI 6/4/96: unknown: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, wear and discolouration to edges, some pages taped together, notes in crayon, 43f. “Meaning and Metaphor” by KWB, early handwritten draft written between St Anne’s and
Shrewsbury papers.
Paper file
BRI 6/5 1950
Royal Institute of Philosophy – From Public Lectures 1950.
BRI 6/5/1: 1950: Card folder, rust marks and damage to left edge, notes in pencil and pen, 2f. Notes read “ Lecture 1 The Science of Human nature and the Philosophy of Human Nature – KWBritton University College Swansea”. Contains BRI 6/5/2 – BRI
6/5/40. Reused University College Swansea Exam Cover.
BRI 6/5/2 – BRI 6/5/40: 1950: Paper, rust damage to left edge, discolouration to pages, 39f. “The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Science of Human Nature” by KWB handwritten lecture.
BRI 6/5/41: 1950: Paper, rust damage to top left corner, tear and wear to left edge, notes in pencil and pen, 2f. Notes read “Lecture 1 Ways of Knowing and Kinds of Knowledge – KWBritton University College Swansea”. Contains BRI 6/5/42 – BRI
6/5/81. Reused University College Swansea Exam Cover.
BRI 6/5/42 – BRI 6/5/81: 1950: Paper, rust marks to top left corner, wear to edges, 40f. “Ways of Knowing and Kinds of Knowledge” by KWB handwritten lecture.
BRI 6/5/82: 1950: Card, rust marks to top left corner, wear to edges, notes in pen, 2f. Notes read “Lecture Three Morality – Tradition and Reason KWBritton University College Swansea”. Contains BRI 6/5/83 – BRI 6/5/113. Reused University College
Swansea Exam Cover.
BRI 6/5/83 – BRI 6/5/113: 1950: Paper, wear to edges, slight discolouration to paper, notes in pencil and pen, 31f. “Morality: Tradition & Reason” by KWB handwritten lecture.
BRI 6/5/114: 1950: Paper, wear to edges, notes in pencil and crayon, 1f. Notes on the subject of “God as the consummate Applied Mathematician.”
BRI 6/5/115: 1950: Card, wear to edges, originally used as a folder but torn in half – front half, rust marks to top left corner, notes in pen, 1f. Notes read “Lecture 4 Truths of Imagination and Reflection – KWBritton University College
Swansea”. Reused University College Swansea Exam Cover.
BRI 6/5/115 – BRI 6/5/154: 1950: Paper, wear to edges, slight rust marks to left edge, notes in pencil, 38f. “Imagination and Reflection” by KWB almost entirely handwritten lecture.
BRI 6/5/155: 1950: Card, rust marks and wear to edges, originally used as a folder but torn in half – back half, 1f. Reused University College Swansea Exam Cover.
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