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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

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: "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 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.

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.

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

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

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: "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: "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.

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: "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.'

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'.

Drafts of articles and lectures about climbing including one called The Art of Climbing and another called Death in the Alps in which he expresses his views on the risk of dying whilst climbing.

Notes on Fellowships founded by John Smith and on other matters relating to the Statutes.

Letter from Enid Porter (Cambridge Folk Museum) to Pepys Whitely giving background information about photographs of Fisher's Lane and Ekin's Yard and the history of the tenants there from the late 19th century (the Bullen family, W. Child, A.J. Osbourne.

Also a list of tenants in 1925 and 1926 of Nos 18, 20 and 25 Magdalene Street.

Handwritten notes by Dr Hyam on the history of Wentworth House.

Notes made in the 18th century about the powers of the Master as laid out in the Statutes.

Notice and receipt for the contract for redemption of Land Tax (Quayside), 1878.

Parties: (1) Charles Collin Warren, (2) Revd Charles White Underwood

Notice of conveyance of equity of redemption

Note of dispatch of document to Francis & Co (solicitors).

Black and white photograph of the crew on the river. The name of the stroke has been written in pen on the photograph (difficult to read accurately) but there are no other names given.

Black and white photograph of the crew on the river. No names are given.

O’Connell and Parnell by Oliver MacDonagh.

(1) ‘The Uncontemporary Apologist' in Theology LXVIII, (No. 536), Feb 1965, by Simon Barrington-Ward (Fellow and Dean of Magdalene College)

(2) Photocopy of an obituary by Helen Gardner in Proceedings of the British Academy LI (1965)

(3) Printout of a copy of an obituary in The Times, 25 November 1963

Missing from the series.