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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.

Front Cover reads: "Modern Poetry Materials Oliver Cromwell!".

Miscellaneous notes on the subject of Modern Poetry, especially D. H. Lawrence

Cover reads: "Psychology"; opposite cover reads: "Ethics".

At 'Psychology' end of book, a short story exploring philosophical themes. At the 'ethics' end, possibly the draft of a paper for the Moral Sciences Club.

Front cover reads: "Psychology".

Notes taken from Psychology lectures as an undergraduate, accompanied with doodles.

Front cover reads: "PSYCHOLOGY 1925 GENERAL + GENERAL 1929".

Miscellaneous notes throughout on psychology in a range of topics, especially the research of 'Stern'.

P.1 reads: "Magdalene College Roofs and Climbs".

A diary of I.A Richards' night climbs over various buildings in Magdalene College, recounting one climb in which they got caught. Attached is a mock-serious tale of the 'devilkin' - a strange doll they managed to attach to the clock tower.

Front Cover reads: "CLARK Lectures".

Miscellaneous notes throughout on poetry and criticism, sometimes in preparation for a lecture, including a commentary on Paradise Lost.

P.1 reads: "Finally in 1868 he gained the coveted summit".

Essay on mountaineering followed by miscellaneous notes.

From one end of the notebook, sketches and paintings of flowers from 1907 to 1911, concluding with a poem 'To Emily Wilding Davison'. From the other end of the notebook, sketches of women, lettering, watercolours of trees, concluding with further sketches of flowers, some dated 1932. Two used embroidery patterns inserted.

Inscribed 'W. K. A. Richards'. A diary in which to record climbs, likely shared between Ivor and his brother, William Kenneth A. Richards, owing to two styles of handwriting throughout.

Information on the climbs includes the weather, orientation and planning, the remarks and actions of company, landmarks along the way, and events of interest e.g. a 'Narrow escape from falling boulder' on August 3rd, 1909. Climbs take place in North Wales, Dartmoor, and frequently the Alps.

Numbers 23 and 28 Hertford Street were bequeathed to Magdalene College by Sir Stephen Gaselee.

28 Hertford Street was sold on 7 February 2011.

A bill for newspapers for £ 15s 0d is entered in the Necessary Expenses Book [MCAD/3/3/3] but is missing from the bundle.

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag College to Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 5 July 1795 to 10 Oct 1795 = £1 15s 0d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Contents Mr Rofe