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Size: 9 record center boxes, 4 document boxes 1 card file (13 linear ft.)
Processed: September 1990 By: Joan Grattan
Provenance: The collection was given to The Johns Hopkins University by Mrs. Alice Gray Lowe in 1990 and Mrs. Louise Lowe Kittredge in 1991.
Access: Access to this collection is unrestricted.
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Citation: Victor Lowe Papers Ms. 284, Special Collections, Milton S, Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University
Victor Lowe (1907-1988) Papers (1925-1988) Ms. 284
Table of Contents
Provenance............................................1
Related Collections...................................1
Biographical Note.....................................2
Scope and Content Note................................3
Series Description:
Series 1...Personal..............................8
Series 2...Alfred North Whitehead Research.......8
Series 3...Writings..............................8
Container List........................................9
Index.................................................25
Victor Lowe (1907-1988) Papers (1925-1988) Ms. 284
Provenance
The bulk of this collection is research relating to Lowe's first volume of his biography of Alfred North Whitehead. After Lowe's death, the papers were used by Dr. Jerome Schneewind to complete the second volume. The files were donated to the University by Lowe's wife, Mrs. Alice Gray Lowe, in July 1990. The accession number is 90-91.3. In December 1990, Mrs. Lowe gave additional material which included research files on C. I. Lewis and Whitehead plus Victor Lowe notebooks and journals. The accession number is 90-91.24. In April 1991, Mrs. Louise Lowe Kittredge donated business papers of Henry A. Lowe, family correspondence and school papers of Victor Lowe. The accession number for this material is 90.91-27.
Related Collections
When Lowe was researching Whitehead's life, Whitehead's children, Jesse and T. North, allowed Lowe the use of extant family letters, photographs, and some of Whitehead's draft articles. These items are in the Alfred North Whitehead Collection, Ms. 252.
Biographical Note
Victor Lowe was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 19, 1907. He was a professor of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University, and the biographer of mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead. Lowe received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Case University in 1928. Afterwards, he began graduate courses in physics combined with first courses in philosophy. Science and the Modern World published by Alfred North Whitehead in 1925 so impressed Lowe that he gave up the study of science to enter Harvard as a graduate student in philosophy.
Alfred North Whitehead left a distinguished career at Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of London to come to America at the invitation of Harvard University in 1924. Victor Lowe studied with Whitehead at Harvard and became a disciple of Whitehead's thought and philosophy. Lowe spent the rest of his life writing and lecturing on those subjects, and eventually, would be drawn into the formidable task of producing a definitive biography of Whitehead.
Lowe received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1935 and wrote his thesis on the concept of Nature in Whitehead, Russell, and Alexander. He was an assistant in philosophy, 1937-1940, at Harvard and taught at Syracuse University and Ohio State University before coming to The Johns Hopkins University in 1947. George Boas was influential in bringing Lowe to Hopkins. He remained at Hopkins until his retirement in 1973 when he was appointed professor emeritus. Lowe's principal philosophic interests, apart from Whitehead, were in American philosophy of the classical period: Charles Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, and John Dewey. At Johns Hopkins, Lowe's schedule of classes reflected these concentrations. The body of Lowe's published writings consist almost exclusively of Whiteheadian thought. In 1941, Lowe wrote a long piece on the development of Whitehead's philosophy which was published in Volume III, The Library of Living Philosophers (edited by Paul Schlipp). He later expanded the piece into Understanding Whitehead published in 1962 and established his reputation as a Whitehead scholar. He was a contributor to the major journals of Philosophy including Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Review of Metaphysics, and Methodos.
In 1965, Lowe began a correspondence with Alfred's son, T. North Whitehead. T. North had been particularly impressed with Lowe's Understanding Whitehead and encouraged Lowe to consider a biographical study of his father. It was a challenge which engrossed Lowe for the rest of his life. Lowe expected that he might be involved with the biography for at least ten years. However the small amount of Whitehead papers available combined with Lowe's meticulous attention to every detail of Whitehead's life prolonged the project for over 20 years.
Some personal matters also required Lowe's attention. Lowe had been married for many years to Victoria Lincoln, a writer of fiction and biography. Lowe acknowledged that Miss Lincoln took time from her work to assist him in the writing of the Whitehead biography. At the time of her death in 1981, Ms. Lincoln had completed a manuscript on Teresa of Avila. Lowe guided the preparations for the eventual publication of Teresa, A Woman: The Biography of Teresa of Avila published in 1984. Around this time, Lowe entered into a second marriage with Mrs. Alice Gray.
Lowe's research took him to England on four different occasions: 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972. In England, he searched the personal areas of Whitehead's life including his residences, family background, public school experiences, and the years at Cambridge University. He corresponded with Whitehead family members, friends, colleagues, and former students. Much of this research formed the basis of Volume I of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work published in 1985 by the Johns Hopkins Press. What remained for Lowe was to describe Whitehead's later years at Harvard, and the investigations for Volume II were as exhaustive as before. He corresponded with Whitehead's American colleagues, acquired notes of Whitehead students at Harvard, and sought out contemporary philosophers who were influenced during Whitehead's American period. He began to realize that his advanced age might prevent the final completion of the biography, and he appointed Jerome B. Schneewind, a colleague from the Philosophy Department at Johns Hopkins, to act as his literary executor.
Victor Lowe died on November 16, 1988, leaving behind the unfinished manuscript for Volume II. Professor Schneewind assumed the work of editing the material and saw the project to its completion with the publication of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work Volume II in 1990. At the time of Victor Lowe's death, Professor Schneewind remarked: "Dr. Lowe carefully pieced together a fuller picture of Whitehead than anybody will ever be able to do."
Scope and Content Note
This collection of papers largely relates to Victor Lowe's research into the life of Alfred North Whitehead. It consists mainly of research notes, correspondence, and articles about Whitehead collected by Lowe. Included also are some personal papers which Lowe re-filed with these research files. These include Lowe's class notes taken as a student of Whitehead's and lecture notes used during Hopkins seminars.
The papers have been divided into three series, Personal, Alfred North Whitehead Research, and Writings. The papers which form Series 2 of this collection include Lowe's research about Whitehead for his many articles, conference papers, and 2 volume biography. The files are arranged in the way in which they were in his filing cabinets although Lowe's secretary, Mrs. Aggie Gold, appears to have rearranged them after his death. Included in Series 2, Alfred North Whitehead Research, are correspondence, lecture notes, student notes, research notes, a card file, reprints, book reviews, articles, and other secondary material. Manuscript material includes poetry written for Alfred North Whitehead by Conrad Hillberry and T. North Whitehead's unpublished autobiography, "Now I Am An American."
Perhaps the most engrossing project of Lowe's career was the Whitehead biography, Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work. Within this series, one can see the research process leading to the accumulation of information which formed the chronolology of Whitehead's life. In 1968, Lowe began his research in England where he sought a sense of the place and time which inspired Whitehead. Naturally, Lowe paid great attention to Whitehead's education at Cambridge and the influences of fellow students, G. E. Moore, Henry Sidgwick, and John McTaggart. In order to learn something of the private man, Lowe also made a careful study of Mrs. Evelyn Whitehead. Each of these subjects is described in Volume I. Some attempt has been made to artifically assign topics to sections of the material to fit the scope of Volumes 1 and 2 of Lowe's published work.
Lowe's research on Whitehead was roughly divided into 9 topical groupings and these were retained. The groups are "The Cambridge Years," "Whitehead Family Research," "Understanding Whitehead," "The Harvard Years," "The British File," "Bertrand Whitehead," and "American Research: Correspondence and Interviews." Each section is arranged somewhat in alphabetical order. Examples of the types of material in each section are Lowe's research notes, correspondence with colleagues, reminiscences of ANW's contemporaries, and copies of secondary material.
The first grouping, "The Cambridge Years," contains largely secondary material describing the history of Cambridgeshire and student life at Cambridge University in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lowe collected many articles from the Cambridge Review as well as published reminiscences from former students, James Stuart, George Gordon Coulton, and Sir William Cecil Dampier. He looked for elements unique to Cambridge: the Apostles, Math Tripos, the Fellowships as well as information about schedules, clubs and social activities, and his collected material relates to each of these subjects.
Two groupings, "Whitehead Family Research" in Box 2.2, and "Whitehead, Whitehead Family" in Box 2.4 include correspondence and notes about the Whitehead Family, and related Buckmaster and Wade families. Secondary material describes schools, villages, and houses with Whitehead family connections.
Understanding Whitehead, published in 1962, was Lowe's most ambitious work before beginning the biography. In this grouping are reviews of the volume from newspapers and principal philosophical journals. Reviewers include Walter E. Stokes, George Kline, Ivor LeClerc, and James B. Scanlan.
Another grouping is titled "The Harvard Years." Lowe considered the years, 1924 to 1937, to be Harvard's second golden age in philosophy. Whitehead taught there at that time alongside Ralph Barton Perry, C. I. Lewis, Harry Aristryn Wolfson, and W. Ernest Hocking. Lowe presented a paper at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in 1976 on this topic. The draft of his paper is included in this section as well as other items related to Whitehead's tenure at Harvard. Lowe's student notebooks, 1929-1931 from Whitehead seminars and those of John L. Mothershead and William Frankena are included.
In Boxes 2.3 and 2.4 is the "British File" containing interviews with notable English authors, philosophers, and professors. Lowe searched for an insight into pre-World War I England and the society which formed Whitehead, his colleagues and contemporaries. Mostly correspondence is included. Secondary material consists largely of published, biographical sketches. Here also is a photocopy of J. J. Thomson's autobiography, Recollections and Reflections (London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1936) which provided Lowe with an accurate depiction of Trinity College and Trinity men. Correspondents include: Lucien Price, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Karl Britton, Roy Harrod, Henry A. Hollond, Leonard Woolf, and Quentin Bell. particular interest, is separate from the "British File" and can be found in Box 2.5. Bertrand Russell was a student of ANW at Trinity, collaborated with Whitehead on Principia Mathematica, and enjoyed a close relationship with the Whitehead family. Lowe corresponded with Russell, 1941-1968, mostly addressing questions about Whitehead. Holographic letters of Russell and Lady Dora Russell are part of the series as well as photocopies of Russell's lecture notes at Harvard (1927) and copies of the Whitehead- Russell correspondence.
Also in Box 2.4 is a grouping of material, "Subjects in Whitehead's Philosophy," each section containing Lowe's notes and research on topics such as pragmatism, evolution, cosmology, relativity, and structuralism as related to Whiteheadian thought. Also the influence of other philosophers on Whitehead: Nietzsche, Sartre and Teilhard de Chardin. Several sections (to be found in Box 2.6) include Lowe's notes on Whitehead's and Russell's theories on method of extensive abstraction. (Lowe abbreviated this term as "M.X.A.")
"Writers on Whitehead," in Boxes 2.6 and 2.7, includes correspondence, reprints of articles, book reviews, and notes associated with authors writing about Whitehead. Some of these sections contain Lowe's correspondence with researchers whose writings about other philosophers might have uncovered a connection with Whitehead. An example of this is a section titled "Royce." Lowe corresponded with John Clendenning, the biographer of Josiah Royce (1855-1916). Lowe's notes are included in several sections pertaining to Whitehead's published writings. Lowe corresponded with and encouraged many young scholars (Louis Chiaravigliao, William Pizante, William A. Christian, John W. Felt) who were discovering Whitehead and this correspondece is also included.
In Boxes 2.8 and 2.9 is the last formal grouping of material, "American Research: Interviews and Correspondence." Again, there is mostly correspondence dealing with Lowe's reseach for Whitehead's period at Harvard. Included here are lecture notes of Whitehead's students at Harvard: Everett Nelson, George Conger, Edwin L. Marvin, and Thomas G. Henderson. A long, congenial association existed between Lowe and American philosopher, Max Harold Fisch, and several sections are devoted to their correspondence.
Victor Lowe indexed references and notes in a a 3 x 5 wooden card file. Two drawers, labeled "British" and "American" form a ready reference to much of his research filed in folders. The drawers contain over 1500 cards and have been left intact.
The final items in Series 2 include reprints of Lowe's published articles, other reprints of Whitehead articles, and a published piece about Ramsgate, the village where Whitehead lived as a child. which is Series I. The papers were previously interfiled within the collection, but were separated into Series I to reflect a small portion of Lowe's graduate work and his teaching career at Johns Hopkins. Lowe's Hopkins lectures are not well represented. According to his secretary, Lowe disposed of his lecture notes. Those in this collection appear to be ones he planned to use in his research on Whitehead.
Lowe kept a series of philosophical journals in which he recorded his thoughts and ideas as well as representative writings of other philosophers. Parts of these notebooks were sometimes used as personal diaries. The journals and a diary for 1941 are included in Series I and span the years 1937 to 1959. They are filed in Box. 1.1
Included in Series I are Lowe's notebooks from Harvard, 1937- 1939. One series of notes is from "Philosophy of Science" taught by Willam Ernest Hocking (1873-1966) and another is from "Metaphysics" taught by Morris Raphael Cohen (l880-1947). Another Harvard notebook is from Arthur Lovejoy's class. Course notes used by Victor Lowe at Johns Hopkins, 1961-1972, are included here. The largest segment of lecture notes relates to Charles Sanders Peirce but notes for other graduate seminars in Whitehead and William James, plus a Seminar in British Philosophers represent Lowe's preparations for his classes.
The bulk of the personal correspondence is for the years, 1982- 1988, The letters concern the death of Lowe's first wife, Victoria Lincoln, and Lowe's efforts to publish her biography of Teresa of Avila. Congratulatory messages pertain to Lowe's remarriage and the publication of Volume I of his Whitehead biography. Correspondents include Katherine Benedict, Richard Threlkeld Cox, Cuthbert Daniel, Mabel Lewis, J. Padgett Payne, and Rhoda Silberman.
Lowe was a colleague of Hopkins professors, George Boas (1891- 1980), Albert Hammond (1892-1970), and Arthur Lovejoy (1873- 1962). Items related to these men are part of the Personal Series. Reprints of articles and announcements of memorials are among the Boas items. The Hammond material includes correspondence and Lowe's ideas for a speech before the Hammond Society in 1983.
In 1951 and 1952, as American universities agonized over questions of academic freedom and professors with perceived or known Communist party affiliations, Lowe became embroiled in a discussion of these issues with Hopkins colleague, Arthur Lovejoy and Sidney Hook of New York University. Arthur Lovejoy assumed an anti-Communist position, and Lowe argued that only individual teaching and research should be used to predict academic behavior. The Journal of Philosophy ultimately published their positions and rejoinders. (V. 48, No. 14: July 15, 1951 and V. 49, No. 4: Feb. 14, 1952). Lowe's notes and correspondence articles can be found in Box 2.10.
Series 1 also includes Lowe's passport, a bibliography and vita, and a photograph of Lowe and other colleagues from Johns Hopkins University is 1976. Papers related to business interests of Victor's father, Henry A. Lowe, are included in Series 1. A final item is Victor Lowe's journal which includes bibliographic references and notes on Freud's papers.
Series 3, filed in Box 3.1, includes a small arrangement of Lowe's Writings mainly from the 1950s. This material was included with the papers of Victoria Lincoln, received by the University in October 1990. The sections are arranged topically and include Lowe's notes, correspondence, and drafts of his writings. During Lowe's student years at Harvard, the faculty also included the American philosopher, C. I. Lewis (Clarence Irving Lewis, 1883-1964). In Series 3 are items which reflect Lowe's interest in Lewis's writings and thought: student notes, teaching notes, research notes, and notes from Lowe's interview with Lewis in 1954. In 1968, Lowe wrote an essay, "Lewis' Conception of Philosophy" which was published in The Philosophy of C. I. Lewis, V. 13, The Library of Living Philosophers, edited by Paul Schilpp. Lowe's correspondence with Lewis is included here as well as several reprints of Lewis's published articles. Lewis research is filed in Box 3.2.
Correspondence (1947-1968) in Series 3 deals largely with the publication of Understanding Whitehead. Other letters are from graduate students and "lay" philosophical students requesting Lowe's guidance regarding aspects of Whiteheadian thought.
In 1954, Lowe described his philosophical work as "an analysis of the concept of possiblility" and apparently planned a book on the subject. Included in Series 3 is the thesis for the book and the typescript of three chapters. During this period, Lowe published several articles in major philosophical journals. (Lowe's bibliography is included in Series 1). Notes and correspondence included in Series 3 support the subjects of his published articles. Here are sections on philosophical concepts including truth, categories, conceptual meaning, and possiblities. During the 1950s, Lowe began an exploration of Freudian psychology and considered a more serious study of psychoanalytic theories.
Lowe's personal life, his teaching career, and his study of Alfred North Whitehead were closely integrated. Within the collection as a whole, there is considerable overlapping of material. An example of this would be references to William Ernest Hocking. In 1939, Lowe was a student in Hocking's class in Metaphysics, and those notes are included in Series I. In Series 2 are more of Lowe's student notes, but specific to Hocking's concept of Idealism, a subject studied in comparison with Whiteheadian thought. Other references to Ernest Hocking also in Series 2.
A detailed listing of all material in the collection can be found in the Container List. Like many researchers, Professor Lowe used a unique method of abbreviations for labeling his material. Titles are listed in the Container List as they appeared in his files. Series Description
Series I Personal 1925 -1988 2 boxes Arranged alphabetically.
The Personal Series reflects only a small portion of Victor Lowe's personal life and his 25-year teaching career at Johns Hopkins. The items are contained in Boxes 1.1 and Box 1.2. Among the items are a diary from 1941, several philosophical journals, and a journal with references to Lowe's interest in psychoanalytical theory. Lecture notes, student notes from Harvard, personal correspondence, and a few items related to Lowe's colleagues, George Boas, Albert Hammond and Arthur Lovejoy, are found in this series.
Victor's father, Henry A. Lowe, was a mechanical engineer who owned a tool-manufacturing business in Cleveland, Ohio. In the early 1900s, Henry Lowe patented a device known as the "Last Word" universal test indicator. In Series 1 is correspondence dealing with the patent process. Other papers relate to the family business and the settlement of Henry Lowe's estate. Family correspondence, 1928-1959, is included.
Series 2 Alfred North Whitehead Research 1929-1988 9.5 boxes 1 wooden card file Arranged topically, somewhat in alphabetical order.
This series forms the largest part of the collection and is contained in Boxes 2.1 to 2.11. It is a comprehensive look at Victor Lowe's faithful study of the work and life of Alfred North Whitehead which he began as a graduate student at Harvard in 1929 and continued until his death in 1988.
Topics in Boxes 2.1 and 2.2 are the "Cambridge Years," "Whitehead Family Research," " Understanding Whitehead," and the "Harvard Years." Topics in Boxes 2.3 and 2.4 are "The British File," and "Subjects in Whitehead's Philosophy." More "Whitehead Family" research is also in Box 2.4. The topic in Box 2.5 is "Bertrand Russell." The topic in Boxes 2.6 and 2.7 is "Writers on Whitehead." The topic is Boxes 2.8 and 2.9 is "American Research: Correspondence and Interviews." Box 2.10 contains reprints of articles by Alfred North Whitehead and Victor Lowe. Victor Lowe's two-drawer card file (Box 2.11) which includes references and notes labeled "British" and "American," corresponds to his research material filed in folders. Series 3 Writings 1947-1973 1 box Arranged topically.
This series represents a small sampling of Victor Lowe's writings before he began the biography of Alfred North Whitehead. Most of the material supports the philosophical concepts which formed the basis of his journal articles published in the 1950s. Among the correspondents are Nelson Goodman and Richard Wollheim. Sections also include secondary material and a few lecture notes from 1965 and 1973.
Of interest in this series is the C. I. Lewis research contained in Box 3.2. A typescript of a paper by Lewis most likely written in the 1950s is entitled "Values and Facts." Lowe noted the paper "unpublished." Lowe holographic notes from an interview with Lewis in 1954 are also included along with reprints of Lewis's published articles, 1930-1965.
A section of correspondence is contained in Box 3.2. The letters relate mostly to the publication of Understanding Whitehead in 1962. Other correspondence is from scholars and "lay" philosophers who sought Lowe's help in clarifying areas of Whiteheadian thought. Ms. 284
Series 1 Personal
Box 1.1
Articles about Victor Lowe Student Notes, Case University Student Papers, Harvard: Art, Literature Student Notes, Harvard: Social Sciences, Personal Harvard: Whitehead
Family Letters, 1928-1930 Family Letters, 1929-1930 Family Letters, 1932 Family Letters, 1934 Family Letters, 1935 Family Letters, 1935-1936 Family Letters, 1958-1959
Financial Papers, 1922-1931 Financial Papers, 1928-1937
Henry A. Lowe Estate: "Last Word" Patent 1932 1933 1934 1938 Probate Court Documents Taxes Profit and Loss Reports, 1930-1934 Calculations, 1926, 1928, 1931-32 Correspondence with L.S. Starrett, 1921-1930 1934-1935 Filter Stock, 1894-1905 Poem
Student notebook, Sheffer, 1929-30 Notebook B Notebook D, Lovejoy, 1937-38 Notebook G, 1938-1946 Notebook H, 1944-1951 Notebook N, Journal with reference to psychoanalytic theory. Diary, 1941 Philosophical Journal, 1950-1959
Case School Yearbook, 1928
Box 1.2
Bibliog & Vita, My Boas Memorial Grad Study (Victor's) Hammond, Albert Johns Hopkins, Misc.-1970- (Photograph, Hilton Inn, Baltimore County, May 11, 1976) Lecture Notes, Johns Hopkins University: James (William) Sem. in Wh, J.H.U., 1962-63 Sem. in Wh, J.H.U., Fall 1972 Peirce: Monist 1891 articles (1959-1971) Peirce, Wiener's Anthology (1963) Peirce & Whitehead (1961, 1964) Peirce's Me. '73 Writers on Peirce Peirce, Reprints on Burke on Peirce Peirce (1963-64) Sem. in Peirce Fall '61 Guide to P-W Peirce, 1877-78 (1964-70) Science, Philosophy of-Misc. (1952-) Sem. in Brit. Ph '98-'24 Fall '67
Passport Personal Correspondence, Folders A-Z Including: Katherine Benedict Richard Threlkeld Cox Cuthbert Daniel Mabel Lewis J. Padgett Payne Rhoda Silberman Notebook, Physics Laboratory, Case School, 1925 Reply to Lovejoy & Hook Student Notes, Harvard, 1938-1939: Professors Morris Raphael Cohen and William Ernest Hocking Aberystwyth & Holland May '67 Commencement Programs East High School, Cleveland, 1934. Case School of Applied Science, 1928. Certificate given to Lowe from his students at the time of his retirement, May 11, 1973.
Series 2 Alfred North Whitehead Research
Box 2.1 The Cambridge Years:
Bachelor in Cambridge W's Mode of Life as Ungrad Trin. Coll.-W's Lects. German, W's Trip to 1880-83 1883-85 1885-90 1890-95 1895-1900 1900-1905 1905-1910 1914-1918 1919-24 Notes Re: Intro. & Plan of Biog. Camb: Moral Sci Club Cambridge, Life in Camb. Univ Press Camb. Univ. before 1880 (James Stuart, G.G. Coulton) Camb. U.-Roach's History Cambridge, Univ. of Camb. Univ. Library Camb. U.:Math Tripos & Smith's Prize & Wranglers Cavendish Lab. Girton Coll. Newnham Coll. Trin. Coll. 1879-84 Trin. Coll. Library Trin Coll.-W's Fellowship Trinity Coll. Camb: Memoirs & Miscel. Men Trinity Men (Sir. Wm. Dampier) Scientific Genius and Creativity. With an introduction by Owen Gingerich. Readings from Scientific American. 1986. Scientific American (September, 1964) "Space, Time & Rlvy," by Wh. Space, Time & Relvy: Bibs The Organisation of Thought Realism, British, 1890 -
Box 2.2 Symposium in Honor of the Seventieth Birthday of Alfred North Whitehead. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1932. Whitehead, A.N. The Axioms of Descriptive Geometry. London: Cambridge University Press, 1914. Whitehead, T. North. "Now I am an American." (Unpublished biography,corrected to Feb. 1963) "Poems for A.N.W." written by Conrad Hilberry. Box 2.2 (Cont.)
Whitehead Family Research:
Whitehead Family Whitehead, Charles Selby Whitehead, Bp. Henry (Bro.) W., Thomas (Grandf.) Whitehead, Alfred (father) Whitehead, Henry (Uncle) & Thos. Clarke (Uncle) Blanch, John & Shirley Buckmaster Wade Family
A. (Philosophers) J.L.Austin, Thomas Aquinas B. (Philosophers) Braithwaite, Bridgman
Understanding Whitehead
Reviews of UW Kline on UW, 1964
"On Having Possibilities in Mind," Typescript article by Victor Lowe Virginia, Univ. of MacMillan Co., N.Y. Ctracts with W.
The Harvard Years:
Harvard Lects. 1926-27 (Lowe's notes) Hocking: Joint Seminars with W:1934-35: Student notes of John L. Mothershead and Frankena, Wm. Brennan, J.G. Ethics & Process Phil., E.E. Best Ethics & Process Phil, Karcher Literature, 20th Cent., After 1918 Political Philos. Romantic Poets Harvard: Russell At Harvard: Sem. in Logic Harvard: Sem. in Met. Harvard: Society of Fellows Victor Lowe's Notebooks: 1929-1930 1933-34 1937 Lowe's Notes, Fall '29 & 1930-31 Lewis, C.I. A.K.V. (Analysis of Knowledge & Valuation) XII Earlier Drafts Harvard, 1925-26 Chronology, American Ch. 8 The Development of Wh's Philosophy: 1914-1924 Box 2.2 (Cont.) The Harvard Years
Harvard: Regular Lects 1930=35 Whitehead; Death Of
"A.N. Whitehead on his Mathematical Goals: a Letter of 1912." (Pub'd 1975) Wh & The Foundation for Integrated Education " Naturalism, Temporalism, and Wh's Metaphysics" Whitehead: for Loyola Feb. 1968 Ford's Discovery about W Hartshorne & Wh Civilization, W on Theology; W's influence on Process Theology Whitehead, North New Orleans, SAAP Alexander, S. & Wh Bergson, W & Macmillan Co. Wh: S.M.W. (Science and the Modern World) Religion in the Making Used in Apx B, 2nd ed. of Pr. Ma. Harvard, Pres'd Papers Harvard: 1924 Appointment Harvard Ph Dept, 1925-1937 Harvard: Philos. Dept. Harvard - 75th Birthday Harvard: W's First Year Harvard's 2nd Golden Age & SAAp, 1976 W & Harv's Second Golden Age "The Universe" & Man - for my book W - His General Philosophy & Method in Thinking Nat'l Sci, W's Ph of (1915-24) Wh: Earlier-Later Marvin, Edwin L: Corsp & Summary of his 1927-28 Notes of W's Lects. Harvard: Teaching & Misc. Harvard UGrads: Memories of W Wh as a Teacher - SAAP (1982) Experience, Wh's Analysis of Harvard Lectures & Seminaries: Lists of Notes Set Aside
Chiaraviglio, Lucio. "Efficient, Final, Formal, and Material Caused is Whitehead's Metaphysics.: Unpublished Master's Thesis, 1954.
Box 2.3
Authors, A-Z. Offprints of published articles dealing with Whitehead's philosophy.
The British File, Correspondence and Interviews
Ayer, A.J. Beeton Family Braithwaite, Richard British Association for the Advancement of Science Britton, Karl Carr, Herbert Wildon Corderoy, Oliver Darwins (Darwin College) Davies Family Edinburgh England before 1870 England, 1870-1900 England, 1901-July 1914 England - The War and its Meaning Fisher, H.A.L. Gardner, Martin: Relativity Gibb, Phelan Grattan-Guiness Grattan-Guiness, Papers by Haldane, Richard Burdon Halpern, Mrs. Barbara (Strachey) Harrod, Sir Roy Hawtrey, Sir Ralph Hill, M.J.M Hollond, Henry A. Livingston, Sir Richard Levy, Paul Lockeridge Morley, Frank & Felix Nunn, T.P. Princ'a Math'a: Miscel. Radcliffe-Brown Ramsgate Religion Rome (Church of) c.1890 Royal Society Russell, Bertrand (See Box 2.5) Sanger, Charles Sherborne School Quarter inch map, So. England Smith, Norman Kemp Spencer, Sir Kelvin Pearsall Smith Family Somerset House Stein, Gertrude & Leo Strachey, Lytton Box 2.3 (Cont.) The British File, Correspondence and Interviews
Temple, Prof. George Thanet, Isle of Times, London Virtue, Charles F. Wrinch, Dorothy Tait, Archbishop University College, London Educ.: Adult & Toynbee Vacations, W's English Vellacott, Jo (Newberry) Wedgewood, (Josiah C.) Wilmot, Laurence F. Woolf, Leonard, Bell, Quentin Women's Suffrage
Bateson, William & Family Bragg, W. Lawrence Broad, C.C. Browning, Oscar Butler, H. Montagu Cayley, Arthur Cornford Family Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes Eddington, A.S. Forsyth, Andrew Fry, Roger Hardy, G.H. Hill, A.V. Jackson, Henry Keynes, J.M. Larmor, Joseph
Box 2.4 Leaf, Walter Littlewood, J.E. McTaggart, John Maitland, F.W. Moore, G.E. Moore, G. E. & Wh. Niven, W.D, Pollock, Sir Frederick, Sir John Raleigh, Sir Walter Alex'r. Routh, Edward John Taylor, H.M. Sidgwick, Henry Shuckburgh Family Sorley, W.R. Stephen, Leslie Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Thompson, Darcy Wentworth Thomson, J.J. Box 2.4 (Cont.) The British File, Correspondence and Interviews
Photocopy of Thomson's autobiography, Recollections and Reflections published in 1936. Turner, H.H. Ward, James Wedd. N. Whittaker, E.T. & J.M. of Sheffield
Whitehead, Whitehead Family
W in 1912 on his Aims as Mathn Whitehead, A.N.W., Evelyn, T.N., Wills W's Library List of Materials rec'd from T.N.W. Photographs: ANW's last lecture, May 6, 1937 ANW's uncle (?) Whitehead, Eric Whitehead, Eric (1921-) North Whitehead & Harriet Whitehead, North - his life Family Correspondence 1914 Family Correspondence 1915 Family Correspondence 1916 Family Correspondence 1919 Wh's Letters from North 1924-1925 Whitehead, Evelyn in America Whitehead, Jessie Corresp Whitehead, Jessie - Notes from & Notes on Dehn, Roy A.
Imperial College London, Univ. of Borough Polytechnic Education, W's Work in Used in Ch III W on Educ Education, Papers on W on Educ, W's infl on Classics , Ctee (Committee) on W's letters
Subjects in Whitehead's Philosophy
Biology Biol & Physical Science Pragmatism (Amer.) & W's Ph Evolution Box 2.4 (Cont.) Subjects in Whitehead's Philosophy
Geometry Humanist Outlook Humanism, Review of Lamont Language Logis & Symbolic Logical Positivism Math Math, History of Math, Nature of Metaphysics Metaphysics & Cosmology Metaphysics: Selections from Whitehead Metaphsl Mth, Seminar Fall 1959 W's Met'l Method Mind Ph & Sc of Mp, Mth. & Na of Writers on The New Realism Philos: Nature & Method of Physical Science Physics: David Bohm 1977- Physics: Cosmology Physics - Einstein Physiology & Psychology Postmodern Thought 1988- Pribram, Karl, 1976- Principia Matha Vol IV Psychology of Personality Relativity, Physical Theory of Relativity, Phy'l Theory including Wh's gen theory of Rlvy Relativity, Special Theory Religion: Church Hist. & Theory Quantum Theory Psychology Science & Philos Science, History of to 1900 Science & Met Sociology Structuralism
Box 2.5
Bertrand Russell
Russell Russell - War Letters from Whiteheads Russell Corsp. with Lowe re: Wh. Lady Russell Russell & W: Collab'n Corsp. Russell & Trinity College Box 2.5 (Cont.) Bertrand Russell
Russell, Dora Russell: K.X.N. (Our Knowledge of the External World) Russell, His Mind and Philosophy Implication: Russell vs. Lewis BR. (Bertrand Russell) Texas Letters Russell & W - Misc Russell: Math & S. Log Russell's Philos & W's
Box 2.6 Subjects in Whitehead's Philosophy (Cont. from Box 2.4)
M.X.A.-Operationalism (Method of Extensive Abstraction) Congruence & MZM (Measurement) Wh. M.X.A. M.X.A. - W., Russell & Others An Answer to Crit of W's M.X.A. c. 1936 M.X.A. 1936 Notes & Drafts Wh vs. Lenzen et. al. (Rigid Rods & Operationism) M.X.A. (Old Drafts
Writers on Whitehead
Alexander, Samuel Berkeley Hocking Hume Idealism, British James for Jl. Hist. Ideas Corti, Walter Robert Winterthur Seminar, 1973- J & W James, Wm. & Wh Kant Leibniz Locke Nietzsche Lovejoy Wilson, Daniel (Lovejoy) Wh vs. Lovejoy Peirce, C.S. Plato Plato, Wh on; also Arist. Quine Royce Santayana Santayana on Wh Sartre Teilhard de Chardin Box 2.6 (Cont.) Writers on Whitehead
Tillich Wittgenstein Lowe - Talks with W. Whitehead: Infl. Gen'l Applications of W's Philos. "Autobiogl Notes" - W's Ms. (Removed to Ms. 282) 1889: "On the Motion of Viseous Incompressible Fluids." W's Minor Works, thru 1910 Universal Algebra Wh.'s A.J.M. Papers (1901-1904) "MCMW" Intro to Math. Wh. Works: 1919-22 PNK & CN The Principle of Relativity On SMW W: Process & Reality Process and Reality: Critical Edition Nature & Life The Function of Reason Indication, etc. "An Appeal to Sanity" Modes of Thought "The New Reformation" Minor Amer. Writings Wh: Adventures of Ideas Poetry & Other Passages, quoted by W. without identification Bifurcation of Nature Buddhism, Wh & W: Causal Xp & Sense Perception Creativity Eter. Objs - Best Notes on Eternal Objects W's Concept of God W; Value, Ethics History, W's Philos of Wh - Logic & Scientific Method W's Metaphys: Time in W's Metaphysics, except God, E.O. Wh's MXA - l963 answers to Negative Prehensions Phil, Task of - W. on Religion Perception Propositions Relations Space & Time in W' 1920 Books Space & Time (Wh) Symbolism Box 2.6 (Cont.) Writers on Whitehead
W's Turn to Theism Ph'l Influences on W's Theism Theology Teleology
Box 2.7
Writers on Whitehead
Files A - Z Continental Writers on Wh Bendall, R.D. Burgers, J.M. Chiaraviglio Christensen, Darrel E. Christian, Wm. A. Cobb, John B. Emmet, Professor D. Fancher (Robert) 1974- Fararo, Thomas J. Felt, James W. Garland (William J.) For W-G Wolf-Gazo, E. Griffin, David R. Hammerschmidt; W's Ph of Time Harrell, Prof. Martha Hartshorne, Chas. Hurley, Patrick J. Hurley, Papers by Helm, Bert P. Kline, George L. Kuklick, Bruce 1971- Kulungian, Harold Lango (John W.) Wh and Lawrence (D.H.L.) Lawrence, Nathaniel LeClerc (Ivor) LeClerc - Papers on Wh Lucas, G. R. Lewis, Wm. Martin, R.M. Neville, Robt. Nobo, Jorge L. Palter (Robert M.) Pittenger, Norman Pizante, (William A.) Pols (Edward) on Wh. Schilpp Correspondence with V.L. Sherburne (Donald W.) Box 2.7 (Cont.) Writers on Whitehead Pols, Edward Smith, John E. Wilson, Edmund Lowe to A.N.W. Readings in Wh Wh Biog: Poss Completers Copyright
Box 2.8
American Research Correspondence & Interviews
Teaching W's Philosophy W Biography: Poss Publishers Permission letter (I. Grattan-Guiness) Folders, A1 to W24 Allan, D. Maurice Biographies - Amer. Enquiries American American Life, W. on Amer. Philos'l Assn. APA Boston '83 Amer Philos'l Soc - Whitehead and Bell, Winthrop Baylis, Chas A. Berlin, Isaiah Boring, Edwin C. Bryn Mawr Coll. Brown Univ (1925) Bryn Mawr Coll. 1929-39 Buchanan, Scott California, Univ of 1924 Carrol, Sidney Carter, Mrs. Hilda R. Carter, Wm. D. Chicago, University of Cockburn, Mary Cohen, Morris R. Columbia University Conger, Geo. Cope, J. Raymond Dartmouth Coll Demos, R. Dunnam, Sam 1985 Eames, Elizabeth Eaton, Ralph Monroe Eckles, Larry Emerson, Guy Box 2.8 (Cont.) American Research Correspondence and Interviews Episcopal Theol School, Camb Mass Epperly, Bruce Farber, Marvin Ferr‚, Nels Fever, Lewis S. Frank, Jerry Frankena, William Frankfurter, Felix Gilmores, Myron & Sheila Gilson, Etienne Gross, Mason W. Goheen, John Greene (Family) Corresp. with VL & Letters from W E.W. (Evelyn Whitehead) to R. Greene E.W. (Evelyn Whitehead) to R. Greene - Letters Review of Hall (David) on W '73 Hallie, Philip Hamilton Coll. Hart, Elizabeth Corresp. 1968-69 Harvard Archives Harv: Phillips Brooks Houghton (Harvard) Hartshorne (Charles) Corsp & Bibliog Heath, Louise R. Henderson, L.J. Henderson, Thomas G. W.E. Hocking's Notes of W' Lect & Sems Hocking Holmes, Justice; Pollock & Laski Illinois, Univ of Johnson, Philip Kaiser, Hillis Kuklick, Bruce Kulungian, Harold Kuspit, Prof. Donald B. DeLaguna (Grace) Ker By-Miller, Sinclair Lamprecht, Sterling Langer, Susanne Lee, H.N. Lee, Otis & Dorothy Leonard, Henry S. Lewis, C.I. Lib. Liv. Phil. Lindberghs (Charles and Anne) Lowell Institute Macmillan Co.: VL's Corsp Manuel, Frank Mayo, Elton & Associates McGill University Box 2.8 (Cont.) American Research Correspondence and Interviews
McHenry, Leemon McMaster U. Mead, George Herbert Michigan Univ. Miller, James Wilkinson Mollenhauer, Bernhard Morgan, George Allen Murray, Henry A. Northrop, P.S.C. New York Public Lib Neyer, Joseph Order of Merit Parsons, Talcott Perry, Ralph Barton Pickman Price, Lucien
Box 2.9 American Research American Interviews & Correspondence
Princeton Correspondence Quine, Professor Radcliffe Archives Rahke, F.T. Redlands, Univ. of Rice, P.B. Rosenfelt, Mark '69- Ruark, Arthur 1967-1975 W - Schlipp Corsp. Shady Hill School Sheffer, H.M. Shimer, Dorothy B. Sixth Int'l Congress Ph, 1926 Skinner, B.F. Slater, John 1979- Spencer on Educ'n: Wh'n USTG & Christian Work Stearns, Isabel Sperry, Dean Willard Toronto, Univ of Tenney, Charles Taylor, H.O. & wf Ulam, S.M. Weedon, Wm. S. Weeks, Edward Weiss, Paul Weiss - Correspondence with Cohen Wellesley Wheeler, Wm. Morton Box. 2.9 (Cont.) American Research Correspondence and Interviews
Wieman, Henry N. Weiner, Norbert #1944 Williams, Donald C. Wisconsin, University of Yale Harv: Divinity Students & Faculty W's Book of Harvard and Radcliffe Students Official Register of Harvard University 1932-1933 Harv Business School Dict'y of Amer Biog & Encycl. Britannica '72 W's Engagements Sept. 1925 to July 1926 Harvard: Faculty, etc. Harv: Philos Dept 1920-1923 Harv. - W; Lect 1924-1927 Heath, Louise Harvard: Grad Students (Phil) Harvard: W's courses and colleagues, 1923-37 ANW Lectures, 1926 (Everett Nelson Notes) ANW Lectures, 1927 (George Conger Notes) ANW Lectures, 1927-1928 (Edwin L. Marvin Notes0 Harv Lects 1925-25 (Hartshorne's Notes) Harv. Lectures 1936-37 ANW Lectures, 1932 (Thomas G. Henderson's Notes) ANW Lectures, 1930 (W.V. Quine's Notes) Fisch, Max 1976- Fisch, Max 1970-75 Fisch, Max 1942-1969
Box 2.10
General: Bearing on Wh or his philosophy Reprints of articles
Reprints of Victor Lowe's articles
History of Ramsgate
Box 2.11
Two-drawer Wooden Card File "British" "American" References and notes on philosophical subjects and persons
Series 3 Writings
Box 3.1 Emerson, Ralph Waldo Lowe: Some Good Ideas re: Concepts, Meanings, [Cssy] Truth Nature of the Categories Proposal for Faculty Study Fellowship, 1953-1954 "A Resurgence of Vicious Intellectualism" (Author's copy) Goodman, Nelson Notes on Category of Individual Imagination & Imagery The Functions of Possibility Statements XII 1960 Possible Experience & The Conceptual Act Possibility & Conceptual Meaning Conceptual Possibility Dynamic Possibility Epistemic Possibility Misc. Topics Re: Possibility Verifiability by Possible Experience (Thomas A. Goudge) Possibility & Consistency "Possible Worlds" Thesis on Meaning & Possibility Freshman Seminar Spring '73 The Idea of Possibility Psychology of Meaning (CPTS) Ch. I-III, Introduction 1954 Various Writers on Meaning Cultural Relativity Logic, Conceptual Anal. & Metaphysical Philosophy of Mind, Meaning, XII '65 Lowe, A Theory of Conceptual Meaning Dr. Lowe Phil. 337 Wollheim, Richard Whitehead - Selection for Memoir - '58 "Universal Military Training and Russia" Box 3.2 Understanding Whitehead & Student inquiries Correspondence about Whitehead philosophy through 1968
C. I. Lewis Research: Victor Lowe's Interview with Lewis, 1954. "The Development of Lewis' Theroy of Strict Implication" "Values and Facts" by C. I. Lewis Unpublished paper, c. 1951 (?) Correspondence with C. I. Lewis. Lewis, Works. Lewis, Mind and the World Order. Lewis, Ethics, Valuation, Religion. Lewis, Theory of Value. Epistemology - Lewis. Lewis, Logical Theory. Lewis on Possibility & Meaning. Lewis on Metaphysics. Lewis, Comment on Lewis, Notes, good, not used in Schilpp, 1957-58
Reprints: Articles by C. I. Lewis, 1930-1965. Index Ms. 284
"American Research: Correspondence and Interviews" 4,5,20,21,22,23 Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules) 13
Bell, Quentin 4,14 Benedict, Katherine 6,9a Boas, George 2,6,8,9a Brennan, Joseph Gerard 11 "British File" 3,4,13,14,15 Britton, Karl 4,13 Buchanan, Scott Milross 20 Buckmaster family 4,1l
Cambridge Review 4 Cambridge University 2,3,4,8,10 Case University 1,9 Chiaraviglio, Lucio 5,12,19 Christian, William 5,19 Cobb, John B. 19 Cohen, Morris Raphael 6,9a,20,22 Conger, George 5,20,23 Coulton. George Gordon 4,10 Cox, Richard Threlkeld 6,9a
Daniel, Cuthbert 6,9a Dampier, William Cecil 4,10 Dehn, Roy A. 15
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 24
Felt, James W. 5,19 Ferr‚, Nels F. S. 21 Fisch, Max Harold 5,23 Frankena, William K. 4,21 Function of Reason 18 Freud, Sigmund 7
Gardner, Martin R. 13 Gold. Aggie 3 Goodman, Nelson 8a,24 Goudge, Thomas A. 24 Grattan-Guiness, Ivor 4,13,20
Halpern, Barbara 13 Hammond, Albert 6,8,9a Harrod, Roy Forbes 4,13 Hartshorne, Charles 12,19,21,23 Harvard University 2,2a,3,4,6,8,9,11,21,23 Henderson, Thomas J. 5,21,23 Hillberry, Conrad 3,10 Hocking, William Ernest 4,6,7,9a,11,17,21 Hollond, Henry A. 4,13 Hook, Sidney 6,9a Hurley, Patrick J. 19
James, Stuart 4,10 James, William 2,6,9a,17 Johns Hopkins University 1,7,9 Journal of Philosophy 6,23
Kline, George Louis 4,11,19 Kuklick, Bruce 19,21
Lamprecht, Sterling P. 21 "Last Word" patent 9 Leclerc, Ivor 4,11,19 Lewis, C. I. 4,7,8a,11,17,21,24a Lewis, Mabel 6,9a Library of Living Philosophers 2,21 Lindbergh, Anne 21 Lindbergh, Charles 21 Lincoln, Victoria 2,7 Littlewood, John E. 14 Lovejoy, Arthur 6,8,9,9a,17 Lowe, Alice Gray 1,2 Lowe, Henry A. 7,8,9 Lowe, Victor 1-
McTaggart, John 3,14 Marvin, Edwin L. 5,12,23 Modes of Thought 18 Morley, F. V. 13 Moore, G. E. 3,14 Mothershead, John L. 4,11
Nature and Life 18 Nelson, Everett 5,23
Payne, J. Padgett 6,9a Peirce, Charles Sanders 2,6,9a,17 Perry, Ralph Barton 4,22 Principia Mathematica 4,12,13,15 Pittenger, W. Norman 19 Pizante, William A. 5,19 Price, Lucien 4,22 Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman) 16,22,23
Ramsgate 5,13,23 Royce, Josiah 2,17 Russell, Bertrand 2,4,5,6,7,11,13,15 Russell, Dora 5,17
Santayana, George 2,17 Scanlan, James B. 4,11 Schlipp, Paul 2,19,22,24a Schneewind, Jerome B. 1,2a,3 Science and the Modern World 1,12 Sheffer 9 Sherburne, Donald W. 19 Sidgwick, Henry 3,14 Silberman, Rhoda 6,9a Stuart, James 4 Stokes, Walter E. 4,11 "Subjects in Whitehead Philosophy" 4,5,15
Temple, George 14 Thomson, J.J. 4,14,15 Trinity College (University of Cambridge) 1,10,15
Understanding Whitehead 2,3,4,7,8a,11,24a
Wade family 4,11 Weiss, Paul A. 22 Whitehead, Alfred North 1- Whitehead, Evelyn 3,15,21 Whitehead, Jesse 1,15 Whitehead, T. North 1,2,3,10,12,15 Wolf-Gazo, Ernest 19 Wollheim, Richard 8a,24 Woolf, Leonard 4,14
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