- Orr
- Fonds
- 1937–2001
Manuscript and printed scores, some correspondence.
Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music
Manuscript and printed scores, some correspondence.
Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music
The collections consists primarily of academic material pertaining to Goody’s professional life, including:
● Correspondence with colleagues
● Correspondence with publishers
● Administrative material
● Field notes and field recordings
● Archival reproductions
● Diaries and notebooks
● Loose-leaf notes, lectures, articles
● Reviews by Goody
● Reviews of Goody
● Offprints of papers by Goody and others
Personal correspondence and documentation also appear, as do a book-length and perhaps fictionalised war narrative, Goody’s war diary, and a typescript of his autobiography. Five boxes contain writings by or pertaining to Goody’s colleague J.A. Braimah; three boxes of papers towards a history of social anthropology contain correspondence with, and writings by, other colleagues, particularly Meyer Fortes.
Approximately half of the material relates to Goody’s research into Ghana, with particular attention paid to the Gonja, the LoDagaa and the Bagre myth. There are notes, archival indices, photographs, concordances, interviews, slides, survey data and sound recordings, as well as microfilms of material consulted in archives circa 1964.
There is also material on West Africa and on the continent more broadly, on the Mediterranean, on China, and on Gujarat, India.
In addition to these geographical groupings, there are files of notes, lectures, essays and suchlike on various subtopics (pertaining to Ghana and elsewhere). Some run to multiple boxes, and some fill only slim folders; in total these subtopics take up no more than 20% of the physical space of the collection, but in other respects they cover much ground. Among the many labels Goody chose are: beverages; class; domestication; drugs; economics (including the economics of slavery); family; flowers; folk tales; food; gender; hats; iconography; kalabule and African socialism; kinship; knowledge; limits; literacy; love and law; marriage; the mind; modernity; modes of production; monastic households; nature and culture; nudity; oral culture; politics/law/war; property; puritanism; religion; riots and rebellions; science; semiotics; senses and sensations; social evolution; sorcery; terror; thought; trade; travel; the week; widows; and the written word.
Creation dates range from the 1930s to the 2010s.
Goody, Sir John Rankine 'Jack' (1919-2015) Knight and anthropologist
The personal effects of Alan Menzies Hiller
Papers relating to Hiller's army career, letters to family, postcards, photographs and First World War ephemera.
Hiller, Alan Menzies (1895-1915)
Papers and correspondence of Sir Harold Jeffreys
This catalogue has been compiled by Peter Harper and Timothy E. Powell, National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath. NCUACS catalogue no. 133/6/04.
The collection includes biographical material, Jeffreys' research work, items relating to lectures given by Jeffreys and a small selection of material relating to societies and organisations Jeffreys was involved with. There is an extensive collection of published works and related material and also of Jeffreys correspondence. Also included is a large collection of photographs, reflecting Jeffreys interest in the medium.
Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891-1989) Knight, geophysicist and statistician
Papers of Archibald Young Campbell
Typescript and manuscript notes, correspondence, reprints, and annotated books, mostly relating to Aeschylus. Also a manuscript play 'The Fall of Troy'.
Campbell, Archibald Young (1885-1958) classicist
Papers of Henry Mathison Pelling
Drafts of and notes taken for 'Churchill's peacetime ministry, 1951-55', research material on the history of the British Labour movement and the Communist Party of Great Britain, other notes, some diaries, cuttings, typescripts, letters, slides and ephemera.
Pelling, Henry Mathison (1920-1997) historian
Papers of Herbert Walker Swift
Papers concerning Prof. W. Johnson's lecture 'The centennial year of Herbert Walker Swift' and its subsequent publication, letters and papers concerning a patent, correspondence of Mrs Maisie Swift after her husband's death, Swift's notes on plasticity, work by Swift's students.
Swift, Herbert Walker (1894-1960) engineer
Papers relating to the abolition of the slave trade and slavery; papers relating to the Republic of Haiti and the Kingdom of Haiti; papers relating to the Clarkson Family, including Catherine Clarkson, and friends; and miscellaneous papers including those relating to recent research into Clarkson's work. The majority of the papers date from Clarkson's lifetime.
Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846) slavery abolitionist
The papers comprise Adams's correspondence, notes and diaries, correspondence after his death, transcripts of correspondence and papers made for Donald MacAlister, biographical and miscellaneous material.
Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer
Papers of Cyril Bradley Rootham
Manuscript and printed copies of most of Rootham's compositions; works by other composers owned by Rootham; correspondence; miscellaneous items.
Rootham, Cyril Bradley (1875-1938) author and composer