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Record Id:
040-003099630
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003099590
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100026017034.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89153/26
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 Aitken

  • Letter (3 January, 1944) from A. C. Aitken.

Gregory Bateson

  • Letter (4 December, 1946) from Gregory Bateson.

BBC Programme Contracts Department

  • Letter (21 February, 1949) from BBC Programme Contracts Department.

C. C. Burlingame

  • Letter (30 September, 1949) from C. C. Burlingame.

Kenneth J. W. Craik

  • Letter (6 June, 1944) to Kenneth Craik.
  • Letter (1 July, 1944) from Kenneth Craik.
  • Letter (6 July, 1944) to Kenneth Craik.
  • Letter (10 July, 1944) from Kenneth Craik.

Maurice Fréchet

  • Letter (15 January, 1951) to Maurice Fréchet.
  • Letter (23 January, 1951) from Maurice Fréchet.

William Edmund Hick

  • Letter (10 June, 1947) from William Hick.
  • Letter (14 July, 1947) to William Hick. Unsigned.

Clement Lovell

  • Letter (29 September, 1949) from Clement Lovell.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

  • Letter (26 July, 1947) from P. C. Mahalanobis.

Warren S. McCulloch

  • Letter (25 November, 1946) from Warren S. McCulloch.
  • Letter [1] (14 January, 1952) from Warren S. McCulloch.
  • Letter [2] (14 January, 1952) from Warren S. McCulloch.

Earl. W. Porter

  • Letter (6 July, 1970) from Earl. W. Porter (Secretary, Board of Trustees, University of Illinois).

N. Rashevsky

  • Letter (8 January, 1947) from N. Rashevsky.

Director of Studies, The Regent Institute

  • Letter (8 March, 1949) from Director of Studies, The Regent Institute.

Lynn Stoller

  • Letter (26 May, 1970) to Lynn Stoller.

J. G. Taylor

  • Letter (5 October, 1953) from J. G. Taylor.

Thomas Tennent

  • Letter (28 February, 1949) from Thomas Tennent.

Edward L. Thorndike

  • Letter (13 July, 1944) from Edward Thorndike.

Alan Turing

  • Letter [c 19 November, 1946] from Alan Turing.

Norbert Weiner

  • Letter (5 May, 1947) from Norbert Weiner.
  • Letter (15 July, 1952) from Norbert Weiner.
  • Letter (8 April, 1953) from Norbert Weiner.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003099590
040-003099630
Is part of:
Add MS 89153 : The Papers of William Ross Ashby (1903-1972)

 

Add MS 89153/26 : W. Ross Ashby: correspondence of W. Ross Ashby
Hierarchy:
032-003099590[0002]/040-003099630
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89153
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1941
End Date:
1970
Date Range:
1941-1970
Era:
CE
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Exhibitions:
British Library Treasures, (online), 27 February 2016-
Material Type:
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Names:
Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist, 1889-1977
Aitken, Alexander Craig, mathematician, 1895-1967
Bateson, Gregory, anthropologist and communications theorist, 1904-1980
Craik, Kenneth James William, psychologist, 1914-1945
Fréchet, Maurice, French mathematician, 1878-1973
Hick, William Edmund, psychologist, 1912-1974
Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra, Indian scientist and applied statistician, 1893-1972
McCulloch, Warren Sturgis, American neurophysiologist and pioneer in cybernetics, 1898-1969
Thorndike, Edward Lee, American psychologist, 1874-1949
Turing, Alan Mathison, mathematician and computer scientist, 1912-1954
Wiener, Norbert, American mathematician, 1894-1964