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Presidential Address: Uniformity and Contingency
Contains handwritten notes in pencil
Address on Founder's Day at Stanley Technical Trade School
Portions have been crossed out, and a new title written at the top: A London Trade School, 1919
Autobiographical Notes
This is an incomplete typescript of Whitehead's "Autobiographical Notes" that would appear in his Library of Living Philosophers volume.
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 Whitehead to Bertrand Russell
Whitehead refuses to give over his notes to Russell, discusses his protective attitude towards them
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…
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Three drafts of an unpublished paper on the development of western religion.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Two drafts of an unpublished paper on freedom and order; the draft presented first incorporates the handwritten corrections from the second.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.
Letter from Whitehead to Henry Osborn Taylor
Whitehead sends his greetings to Taylor, noting that he recently received a book from Paul Weiss
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
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 writes to Taylor with a life update
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 and Julia Isham Taylor
Whitehead sends the Taylors holiday greetings and news
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
Whitehead thanks Taylor for meeting him at the dock upon his arrival in Cambridge
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 Charles Hartshorne
Hartshorne's recent work, eternal objects
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 White Star Line to Whitehead
They send a bunch of baggage labels and inform the Whiteheads of the ship's departure time.