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1. Add MS 89153/1-25

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: journals
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1972
Extent:
25 files

2. Add MS 89153/26

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: correspondence of W. Ross Ashby
Scope & Content:
The correspondence is from the folder ‘Correspondence 1941 – 1954’ along with two additional letters from 1970. Arranged by author in alphabetical order. Edgar Adrian Letter (28 October, 1946) to Edgar Adrian. Unsigned. Letter (31 October, 1946) from Edgar Adrian. Unsigned. Alexander Charles Ai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941-1970
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 89153/27-30

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: index cards
Scope & Content:
Four draw metal filing cabinet containing index cards used by W. Ross Ashby.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1972
Extent:
4 files

4. Add MS 89153/31

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: book ('Introduction to Cybernetics')
Scope & Content:
Introduction to Cybernetics (London, 1956). W. Ross Ashby’s copy (11 September, 1956). Hardback with handwritten title on the spine. Handwritten notes recording ‘Serious misprints and mistakes’. List of languages the book has been translated into on the first page along with a list of people the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

5. Add MS 89153/32

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: book ('Design for a Brain')
Scope & Content:
Design for a Brain, 2nd Edition (London, 1960). Paperback proof copy with handwritten title on the front and spine. First page has a handwritten list of people copies of the book have been presented to and a short list of pages with typesetting errors on the following page.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960
Extent:
1 file

6. Add MS 89153/33

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: manuscript (autobiographical notes)
Scope & Content:
Autobiographical notes, (7 January, 1951 – 3 June, 1957). Small hardback notebook. 60 pages of handwritten text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1957
Extent:
1 file

7. Add MS 89153/34

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Add MS 89153/34
Title:
W. Ross Ashby: manuscript (‘Collected statistical equations’)
Scope & Content:
‘Collected statistical equations’ (1928 – 1972). Hardback notebook. 425 pages of handwritten text including index.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1950
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 89153/35

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Add MS 89153/35
Title:
W. Ross Ashby: manuscript (‘The origin of adaptation’)
Scope & Content:
‘The origin of adaptation’ (19 November, 1941). Hardback notebook. 195 pages of handwritten text including index.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941
Extent:
1 file

9. Add MS 89153/36

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: collected notes and offprints
Scope & Content:
Collected notes and offprints with subject dividers originally bound in a ring binder. 1. Elementary examples in Information Analysis 2. Bounds for H, T, Q. 3. Coordination (including) Examples of information flow in systems showing coordination Example of information flow in coordination wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1950
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 89153/37

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Add MS 89153/37
Title:
W. Ross Ashby: offprints, articles and papers
Scope & Content:
Collection of offprints, articles and papers authored by W. Ross Ashby including both typescript and published material. (1966 - 1969). Some material includes minor corrections and annotations. Numbered 101-131. (102-105, 107-108 are missing).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1966-1969
Extent:
1 file