Front Cover reads: "Modern Poetry Materials Oliver Cromwell!".
Miscellaneous notes on the subject of Modern Poetry, especially D. H. Lawrence
Sans titreFront Cover reads: "Modern Poetry Materials Oliver Cromwell!".
Miscellaneous notes on the subject of Modern Poetry, especially D. H. Lawrence
Sans titreFront Cover reads: "LOGIC".
Undergraduate notes on the topic of Logic.
Sans titreFront Cover Label reads: "If lost reward will be given by I.A. Richards Magdalene College, Cambridge England".
Climbing diary, including Dent Blanche, Courmayeur and Canada.
Sans titreP.3 reads: "Biog. Lit. XVI".
Notes for a lecture series on the Theory of Criticism.
Sans titreP.2 reads: "South Wind Wyndham Lewis Tarr".
Notes for a lecture series on 'Novels'
Sans titreFront Cover reads: "PRACTICAL CRITICISM 1925".
Notes for a lecture series on 'Practical Criticism'.
Sans titreP.7 reads: "Metaphysics".
Notes for a lecture on Metaphysics.
Sans titreFree end paper reads: "Logic".
Undergraduate notes on the topic of logic.
Sans titreFree end paper reads "alternative Terms to Communication [...]".
Notes for a lecture series on Criticism.
Sans titreFront cover reads: "IDEAS & POEMS".
Saved quotations, miscellaneous poetry, and notes for a lecture series.
Sans titreP.3 begins: "1917 June Ogwen".
A climbing diary from June 1917 to August 1928.
Sans titreFront cover reads: "1925 Psychology".
Miscellaneous notes on the topic of psychology.
Sans titreP.3 begins: "By comparing say, Rule Order Principle Truth Rightness [...]".
Brief miscellaneous notes including a conversation in Harvard.
Sans titreP.2 begins: "Dear Vice Chancellor It was with the greatest delight [...]".
Miscellaneous notes including drafts of letters.
Sans titreFair copy of an essay on aesthetics
Sans titreFront cover reads: "Oct 8 71 Some possible 1/2 pages for MOUTON".
Miscellaneous lecture notes.
Sans titreFront cover reads: "POEMS".
Highly edited drafts of poetry written at Harvard.
Sans titreFront cover reads: "Notes on BEYOND".
Miscellaneous notes including Jung, Job, Dante, etc, followed by drafts of letters.
Sans titreFront cover reads: "Collier Semantic".
Miscellaneous notes including Silences and The Future of Poetry, etc, followed by drafts of letters including several to Adrienne Rich.
Sans titreFirst page reads: "The Premises of Criticism".
Edited draft of essay titled 'The Premises of Criticism' followed by notes for a lecture series on criticism.
Sans titreP. 1 reads: "Met on Mt Auburn St[...]".
Small pocket book for quotidian notes including several short poems.
Sans titreP.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.
Sans titreP.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.
Sans titreFront 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
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.
Sans titreP.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.
Sans titreChinese grammar and vocabulary notebook, entirely in English and Pinyin (no characters)
Sans titreFront 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
Sans titreFront 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
Sans titreFront 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.
Sans titre