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Statesmanship and Specialized Learning
Published in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Vol. 75 No. 1 in 1942
England and the Narrow Seas
Two separate drafts with handwritten emendations. Published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1927.
Industrial Problems
An address given on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Harvard Business School.
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.
Letter from James H. Woods to Whitehead
Woods writes of the lease for Whitehead's prsopective home, compensation for Radcliffe classes, and the time slot for Whitehead's seminary.
Photo of Jessie Whitehead
Photo of Jessie Whitehead at Pack Monadnock, three months before her 40th birthday.
Letter from John Dewey to Whitehead
Dewey discusses the divergences he sees between his philosophy and Whitehead's.
Letter from George Conger to Whitehead
Conger sends Whitehead congratulations on his 80th birthday.
Whitehead Lecture Notes: Seminary in Metaphysics
Four pages of notes from October 1 and October 8 sessions of Whitehead's fall 1926 seminary.
Letter from Whitehead to Bertrand Russell
Whitehead refuses to give over his notes to Russell, discusses his protective attitude towards them
Important Notice to Instructors
Instructions on how to handle course lists and the reporting of absentee students
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.
Lowell Lectures outline
An outline for Whitehead's Lowell Lectures.
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…
Letter from Mark Barr to Whitehead
Barr makes Whitehead aware that Harvard is considering him for a Chair in the Philosophy department.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Whitehead's tribute to A. Lawrence Lowell
Philip Cabot
Whitehead's tribute to Philip Cabot.
James Haughton Woods
Whitehead's tribute to James H. Woods.
Religious Psychology of the Western Peoples
Three drafts of an unpublished paper on the development of western religion.
Freedom and Order
Two drafts of an unpublished paper on freedom and order; the draft presented first incorporates the handwritten corrections from the second.
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.
Whitehead Lecture Notes: Philosophy of Science
Hartshorne's notes for Whitehead's 1925-26 Philosophy 3b. This version of the notes has been re-ordered and newly numbered by WRP (upper-left corner) through comparison with other other notes from the same year, most notably Roethlisberger's…
Photo: 6th Form, Midsummer 1879
Photo of Whitehead's sixth form class (upperclassmen). Whitehead is in middle row, fourth from right.
Photo: First 15, Christmas 1878
Photo of football (rugby) team. Whitehead is in middle row, second from right.
Photo: 6th Form, Christmas 1877
Photo of Whitehead's sixth form class (upperclassmen). Whitehead is in middle row, second from left.
Photo: First 15, Christmas 1877
Photo of football (rugby) team. Whitehead is in bottom row on far right.
Photo: School House 15, winners of the interhouse challenge cup, 10 March 1877
Photo of football (rugby) team. Whitehead is in middle row on far left.
Letter from Henry Osborn Taylor to Lawrence J. Henderson
Taylor sends Henderson a book, talks of Mark Barr trying to recruit Whitehead to Harvard
Photo of Henry Osborn Taylor, William Morton Wheeler, Lawrence J. Henderson, and Whitehead
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 Henry Osborn Taylor, Lawrence J. Henderson, William Morton Wheeler, and Whitehead
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.