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A substantial collection of correspondence, books and memorabilia, photographs, slides and audio-visual materials, drafts for books, lectures and poems, bequeathed to the College; together with the diaries of Dorothea Richards, which run from 1912 to 1986. The main archival collection is in 62 boxes and 50 notebooks. There is also a notable collection of Chinese scrolls, for which a special scrolarium table was constructed after the bequest came to the Old Library . Although many books and papers were removed and destroyed, or lost in flooding, during the lifetime of the donors, what remains gives a comprehensive representation.

P.1 reads: "Essays Vol III. Cambridge, Feb 21st, 1932".

Essays marked by I.A. Richards: 'I have tried to show how I think your style would have been bettered'.

Front cover reads: "scrap-book - from a Weeding Out of OLD NOTES [made in 1977]".

Brief notes on various themes, including this annotation by an unknown hand in red ink: 'What followed should have served as a useful warning to IAR on the futility of over-systematic (would-be) programmatics.'

Front cover reads: "PRACTICAL CRITICISM Oct - March 1928-9".

Practical Criticism Lectures I-XVI including revisions, paste-ins, drawings, and notes to self.

Front cover reads: "LOGIC AND BEAUTY".

Essays on Logic and Beauty, including such headings as 'Beauty as Feeling'; 'Beauty as Pleasure'. Starting from the other end of the book, 'An Autobiography' and further essays on Poetry and Logic.

P.1 reads: "Criticism Lec X".

Lecture notes on Criticism, a continuation of notebook number 4: 'Front cover: CRITICISM'. Notes include revisions, drawings, paste-ins, as well as loose ephemera kept between pages, including letters, newspaper cuttings, poetry, and more. General themes include completeness, significance, pleasure and emotion. Lecture series on Novels is also continued.

Front cover reads: "I.A. Richards Visual Communication".

Notebook with black and white paintings of countryside landscapes inserted. On first page: 'These drawings unidentifiable mostly... Perhaps 1913-14?' And one of the inserted paintings is dated 1976 on the back.

P.1 reads: "Mr Herbert Jones, Great Shelford, Camb, England"

Art sketch pad. Sketches and paintings of the countryside and mountains.

P.1 reads: "I.A.R all pen and brush Dec 29th".

Art sketchpad. Sketches and paintings of the countryside and mountains. Lists materials used on the back of drawings, e.g. brush, pen etc. often including chalk.

Front cover reads: "The "Educational" Drawing Block".

Art sketchpad. Pencil sketches of mountainous landscapes. Certain draft sketches feature notes detailing sections: 'snow', 'grass', 'rock', 'Lake Schwarrenbach' etc.

Front cover reads: "ORIGENS".

Pages marked with letters of alphabet followed by descriptions of words beginning with that letter: e.g. C = calculation, count, compare. Most letters left blank.

Front cover used to read: "Magd. Books possibly valuable[...]" on pasted down paper. Now lost.

Directory of books of value at Magdalene College, followed miscellaneous notes including notes for a book (not identified): 'Preface looks as if it needs replacing', 'Addition to footnote'.

Followed by drafted letters to recipients such as Margot, Jean and Frank

Front Cover reads: "Ghana Speeches".

Various speeches and notes for a trip to Ghana where Richards sought to teach Basic English. According to John Paul Russo, 'Richards himself went to Ghana to interest Kwame Nkrumah in Basic in late 1963, and seemed on the verge of success until moments before his departure.' [1]

[1] Russo, John Paul, I.A.Richards: His Life and Work, 1989, p.453

Chinese grammar and vocabulary notebook, entirely in English and Pinyin (no characters)

P.1 reads: "NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST".

Notebook on visual art, including notes on the cardinal directions, form, and rotation. Including some 'Possible Card Games' made using different forms of leaves rather than hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs.

Richards gives his impressions on China (especially Chinese Communism) after spending 4 months there with Dorothea on his Sabbatical. Richards recounts at length what happens to students who rebel against the regime, including other methods of 'thought control' including 'voluntary' confessions. Concludes with a short excerpt from Dorothea's diary.

Front Cover reads: "CRITICISM".

Lecture notes on Criticism, including revisions, drawings and paste-ins. General themes include the value of poetry, and the doctrines of criticism. Followed by notes for lectures on Novels and Realism.

Front cover reads: "[?] BAN on Iliad".

Contents on page 1:

p1-3 Columbian mythologies quotes
4 Powers & Limits of Signs
30 Achilles: further prints...
60 Letter to Ben Brower
50 Mar 1st Job matters
Bacon 'Of Atheism' p.9
10 Mouton Volume
28 Outcomes in classroom plays of BAT
39 That versus this
41 One way
52 Lost, stolen, strayed
55 Battledore & shuttlecock
58 Et ego

P.1 Contents:

p2-10 Iliad
p11 timetablings + date times
Monroe Engels p10
Trevor Eaton p15
Olson Toronto p20
p.7 [?] Exp Theatre...
Et ego 60
Fidelities 66... 40...
Defunctive poem 61

Miscellaneous notes, letters to Chapman, Saudek, Conrad, and Benedict, essay entitled 'Homer Job Plato', and drafts of poetry.

P.1 contains a contents list: 'Celebration Vol. 1-20 Mouton Collection 20-40'

Notes for the publication of a series of essays, including letters to a Mr Eaton, a drafted preface to Poetries: Media and Ends, an essay on Powers and Limits of Signs, notes on 'Mace Lecture', and drafts of poems.

P. 1 reads: "Met on Mt Auburn St[...]".

Small pocket book for quotidian notes including several short poems.

First page reads: "The Premises of Criticism".

Edited draft of essay titled 'The Premises of Criticism' followed by notes for a lecture series on criticism.

Front cover reads: "Collier Semantic".

Miscellaneous notes including Silences and The Future of Poetry, etc, followed by drafts of letters including several to Adrienne Rich.

Front cover reads: "Notes on BEYOND".

Miscellaneous notes including Jung, Job, Dante, etc, followed by drafts of letters.

Front cover reads: "POEMS".

Highly edited drafts of poetry written at Harvard.

Front cover reads: "Oct 8 71 Some possible 1/2 pages for MOUTON".

Miscellaneous lecture notes.

Fair copy of an essay on aesthetics

Page 1 reads: "Contents, Lenin on Tolstoi".

Quotations from various authors, followed by notes on numerous topics of Chinese philosophy (such as belief, feelings, wisdom, beauty, etc.). Further pages include conversations with various people, translations, programs, thoughts on D.H. Lawrence upon his death, 'A Case against research in 'English'', and notetaking from academic reading.

P.2 begins: "Dear Vice Chancellor It was with the greatest delight [...]".

Miscellaneous notes including drafts of letters.