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Photo of Julia Isham Taylor, Henry Osborn Taylor, Whitehead, and Lawrence J. Henderson
Photo taken during the "Philosophers' Weekend" of 1932, an annual event hosted every Columbus Day weekend from 1924 to 1938 by Henry Osborn Taylor and Julia Isham Taylor. For more information, see the article here.
Photo of Whitehead, Lawrence J. Henderson, Julia Isham Taylor, and Henry Osborn Taylor
Photo taken during the "Philosophers' Weekend" of 1932, an annual event hosted every Columbus Day weekend from 1924 to 1938 by Henry Osborn Taylor and Julia Isham Taylor. For more information, see the article here.
Letter from White Star Line to Whitehead
They send a bunch of baggage labels and inform the Whiteheads of the ship's departure time.
Letter from Alfred Whitehead to Whitehead
A letter from Whitehead's father congratulating him on his book, Treatise on Universal Algebra. Whitehead's father died the following month, so this is likely the last letter ANW got from him.
Letter from Whitehead to Charles Hartshorne
Hartshorne's recent work, eternal objects
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead thanks Taylor for the gift of a book, and discusses his interest in Taylor's "The Medieval Mind"
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead thanks Taylor for meeting him at the dock upon his arrival in Cambridge
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead gives Taylor a life update from a summer home, commenting on the reception of his Gifford lectures (among other things)
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor and Julia Isham Taylor
Whitehead sends the Taylors holiday greetings and news
Letter from Whitehead and Evelyn Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead writes to Taylor with a life update, notes that he is changing apartments
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead writes to Taylor with a life update
Letter from Whitehead and Evelyn Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
The Whiteheads inform the Taylors that they are planning a visit
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead sends his greetings to Taylor
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead sends his greetings to Taylor, briefly discusses the war
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead sends his greetings to Taylor, noting that he recently received a book from Paul Weiss
Governor Alfred Smith
A toast given to statesmen Alfred Smith at Harvard University. Contains three different drafts with handwritten emendations, and two competing reports of a guest count.
Freedom and Order
Two drafts of an unpublished paper on freedom and order; the draft presented first incorporates the handwritten corrections from the second.
Religious Psychology of the Western Peoples
Three drafts of an unpublished paper on the development of western religion.
James Haughton Woods
Whitehead's tribute to James H. Woods.
Philip Cabot
Whitehead's tribute to Philip Cabot.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Whitehead's tribute to A. Lawrence Lowell
Address to the Council of Trinity College concerning the deanship
A handwritten address in which Whitehead proposes two changes to college statutes, the first to give the Council the power to elect only one dean, as opposed to a senior and a junior dean, and second, to remove the restriction which obliges the…
Lowell Lectures outline
An outline for Whitehead's Lowell Lectures.
Synopsis of T. Percy Nunn's Lecture on "The Nature of Science"
Synopsis of Nunn's lecture. Unclear if the notes are Whitehead's, or a summary distributed by Nunn himself.
Letter from Whitehead to Bertrand Russell
Whitehead refuses to give over his notes to Russell, discusses his protective attitude towards them
First lecture
A manuscript for Whitehead's first Harvard lecture. Comparison with student notes reveals that this typescript is not exactly the lecture that Whitehead actually delivered; he both added and substracted material from this version.