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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

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.

P.3 begins: "By comparing say, Rule Order Principle Truth Rightness [...]".

Brief miscellaneous notes including a conversation in Harvard.

Front cover reads: "1925 Psychology".

Miscellaneous notes on the topic of psychology.

P.3 begins: "1917 June Ogwen".

A climbing diary from June 1917 to August 1928.

Front cover reads: "IDEAS & POEMS".

Saved quotations, miscellaneous poetry, and notes for a lecture series.

Free end paper reads "alternative Terms to Communication [...]".

Notes for a lecture series on Criticism.

Free end paper reads: "Logic".

Undergraduate notes on the topic of logic.

P.7 reads: "Metaphysics".

Notes for a lecture on Metaphysics.

Front Cover reads: "PRACTICAL CRITICISM 1925".

Notes for a lecture series on 'Practical Criticism'.

P.2 reads: "South Wind Wyndham Lewis Tarr".

Notes for a lecture series on 'Novels'

Front cover reads: "1924-25 Modern Poetry".

A book of notes on two lecture series: Criticism ('What criticism ought to do and be'), and Modern Poetry ('Not a review of the best moderns, plenty of bad ones mentioned, but a series of controversial remarks as suggestions on How to approach modern Poetry'). The notes are a mixtures of aphorisms, ruminations, notes to self, and sometimes drawings. Slips of paper with more notes are frequently pasted into the book. 'Pencillings [sic] of 1927 on Return from 1st World Circuit' suggest certain notes are made after delivering the lectures.

P.3 reads: "Biog. Lit. XVI".

Notes for a lecture series on the Theory of Criticism.

Front 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.

Front Cover reads: "LOGIC".

Undergraduate notes on the topic of Logic.