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Record Id:

040-001987770

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001987657

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ark:/81055/vdc_100000000247.0x000099

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Supplementary Strachey Papers. Vol. lxxvii (ff. 144). Papers by and relating to Christopher Strachey (b. 1916, d. 1975), son of Oliver Strachey; 1929-1983, n.d. Correspondence between Christopher Strachey and his sister Barbara Halpern is at Add. 81959.

Contents:

1. ff. 1-5. Bill, autograph statement concerning and two printed notes of the Mud Press, Haslemere; 1929, 1930.

2. ff. 6-10. Letters to Mary Costelloe afterw. Berenson, his grandmother; 1936.

3. ff. 11, 12. Carbon copy of letter from Christopher Strachey to an unidentified local authority; n.d.

4. ff. 13-58. Typewritten texts of papers and broadcast talks on cybernetics; 1952.

5. ff. 59-83. Typewritten text of an article in Encounter, Oct. 1954, with cuttings of the article and a comment on it in the Manchester Guardian; 1954.

6. ff. 84-86. Printed galley proof of an article in Technology, 1958.

7. f. 87. Photograph; 1958.

8. f. 88. Photocopy of a page of The New Scientist, 3 March 1960 with a letter from Christopher Strachey; 1960.

9. ff. 89, 90. Offprint of an article by Christopher Strachey and M. V. Wilkes in Communications of the association for Computing Machinery; 1961.

10. f. 91. Letter from C. Strachey to ― Young; 1965. Signed.

11. ff. 92-99. Article ‘System analysis and planning’ by Christopher Strachey extracted from Scientific American, Sept. 1966; 1966. Printed

12. ff. 100-102. Article ‘Getting down to software fundamentals’ on the work of Christopher Strachey extracted from Dataweek, Vol. 12, no. 2 (8 July 1970); 1970. Printed.

13. f. 103. Cutting of letter in The Times, 2 Oct. 1974; 1974. Printed.

14. ff. 104, 105. Leaf from publisher’s catalogue advertising A Theory of programming semantics by R. Milne and C. Strachey, with a letter from Milne to Barbara Halpern née Strachey relating to it; 1975. Printed.

15. ff. 106-118. Obituaries of and Order of Requiem Mass for Christopher Strachey; 1975. Printed and photocopies.

16. ff. 119-121. Letter from John Laski to Barbara Halpern née Strachey seeking to publish an unpublished paper of Christopher Strachey’s; 1976.

17. f. 122. Letter from J. B. Alton of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre to Barbara Halpern relating to Christopher Strachey’s papers; 1978. Typewritten, signed

18. f. 123. Letter from A. J. Cole of the University of St. Andrews to Barbara Halpern asking permission to name a prize in memory of Christopher Strachey; 1979. Typewritten, signed.

19. ff. 124-143. Correspondence of the Earl of Halsbury, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Eric A. Weiss, Peter ―, and Barbara Halpern relating to a memoir of Christopher Strachey; 1982,1983.

20. ff. 144. Photograph of a roundel; n.d.

Christopher Strachey, computer scientist; son of Oliver Strachey: Papers and correspondence: 1929-1983, n.d.: Partly printed, partly typewritten.

includes:

ff. 6-10 Mary Berenson, née Pearsall Smith; wife of B Berenson: Letters from C. Strachey: 1936: Partly typewritten.
f. 105 Robert William Milne, son of W C Milne; civil engineer: Barbara Halpern, née Strachey: Letter to Barbara Halpern from Robert William Milne: 1975.
f. 119 Barbara Halpern, née Strachey: John Laski, computer scientist: Letter to Barbara Halpern from John Laski: 1976.
f. 122 Barbara Halpern, née Strachey: Jeannine B. Alton: Letter to Barbara Halpern from Jeannine B. Alton: 1978: Signed.
f. 123 Barbara Halpern, née Strachey: Alfred John Cole, computer scientist: Letter from Alfred John Cole: 1979: Signed.
ff. 124-125, 127-128 John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury: Martin Campbell-Kelly, computer scientist: Correspondence of Martin Campbell-Kelly and John Anthony Hardinge Giffard: 1982: Partly phtocopy, partly typewritten.
ff. 126, 129-130, 133-139 Barbara Halpern, née Strachey: Martin Campbell-Kelly, computer scientist: Correspondence of Barbara Halpern and Martin Campbell-Kelly: 1983: Partly drafts, partly typewritten.
f. 132 Barbara Halpern, née Strachey: John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury: Letter to Barbara Halpern from John Anthony Hardinge Giffard: 1983.
ff. 140-142, 143 Barbara Halpern, née Strachey: Eric A. Weiss, computer scientist: Correspondence of Barbara Halpern and Eric A. Weiss: 1983: Partly typewritten, partly signed.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001987657
036-001987761
040-001987770

Is part of:

Add MS 81885-81972 : Supplementary Strachey Papers 81885-81972. Further correspondence and papers of the Strachey family; mostly circa 1885 –…
Add MS 81956-81969 : C. Papers of Other Members of the Strachey Family. 81956-81969. Supplementary Strachey Papers. Vol. lxxii- lxxxv.…

Add MS 81961 : Supplementary Strachey Papers. Vol. lxxvii (ff. 144). Papers by and relating to Christopher Strachey (b. 1916, d. 1975), son of…

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032-001987657[0003]/036-001987761[0006]/040-001987770

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View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 81885-81972

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1 item

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1929

End Date:

1983

Date Range:

1929-1983

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Names:

Alton, Jeannine B
Berenson, Mary, née Pearsall Smith, wife of B. Berenson, 1864-1945
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, computer scientist
Cole, Alfred John, computer scientist
Giffard, John Anthony Hardinge, 3rd Earl of Halsbury, scientist and civil servant, 1908-2000
Halpern, Barbara Mary, née Strachey; formerly Hultin; broadcaster and writer, 1912-1999
Laski, John, computer scientist
Milne, Robert William, son of W C Milne, civil engineer
Strachey, Christopher, computer scientist, 1916-1975
Weiss, Eric A, computer scientist