GUIDE TO THE PAPERS OF MICHAEL POLANYI

Correspondence

This series includes all letters in the collection written to and by Michael Polanyi, Magda Polanyi, and Cecile Polanyi. The correspondence is arranged chronologically with undated letters organized alphabetically by correspondent at the end of the series. There are two folders of unidentified, undated correspondence and fragments following the identified undated correspondence (14:13-14). Letters from John R. Baker, Joseph H. Oldham, Marjorie Grene, Harry Prosch, Karl and Ilona Polanyi, and Cecile Polanyi have been separately arranged (Boxes 15-20).

Box 1

Folder

1: 1900-1912.

2: 1913-1914.

3: 1915.

4: 1916.

5: 1917-1919.

6: 1920, Jan.-Feb.

7: ____, Mar.-Apr.

8: ____, May.

9: ____, June.

10: ____, July-Sept.

11: 1920, Oct.-Nov.

12: ____, Dec.

13: 1921, Jan.-Mar.

14: ____, Apr.-June.

15: ____, July-Sept.

16: ____, Oct.-Dec.

17: 1922, Jan.-Apr.

18: ____, May-Oct.

19: 1922, Nov.-1923, May.

20: 1923, June-Dec.

Box 2

Folder

1: 1924, Jan.-July.

2: ____, Aug.-1925, Dec.

3: 1926-1927.

4: 1928.

5: 1929.

6: 1930.

7: 1931.

8: 1932, Jan.-May.

9: ____, June-Oct.

10: 1932, Nov.-Dec.

11: 1933, Jan.-Apr.

12: ____, May-Aug.

13: ____, Sept.-Dec.

14: 1934, Jan.-Feb.

15: ____, Mar.-Apr.

16: ____, May-June.

17: ____, July-Aug.

Box 3

Folder

1: 1934, Sept.-Dec.

2: 1935, Jan.-Apr.

3: ____, May-July.

4: ____, Aug.-Oct.

5: ____, Nov.-Dec.

6: 1936, Jan.-June.

7: ____, July-Dec.

8: 1937, Jan.-Apr.

9: ____, May-Oct.

10: ____, Nov.-Dec.

11: 1938, Jan.-May.

12: ____, June-Sept.

13: ____, Oct.-Dec.

14: 1939, Jan.-Mar.

15: ____, Apr.-June

Box 4

Folder

1: 1939, July-Sept.

2:_____, Oct.-Dec.

3: 1940, Jan.-Mar.

4: ____, Apr.-July.

5: ____, Aug.-Dec.

6: 1941, Jan.-June.

7: ____, July-Dec.

8: 1942, Jan.-Oct.

9: 1942, Nov.-1943, Mar.

10: 1943, Apr.-Dec.

11: 1944, Jan.-Oct.

12: 1944, Nov.-1945, May.

13: 1945, June-Dec.

Box 5

Folder

1: 1946, Jan.-May.

2: ____, June-Dec.

3: 1947, Jan.-June.

4: ____, July-Dec.

5: 1948.

6: 1949.

7: 1950-1954.

8: 1955.

9: 1956.

10: 1957.

11: 1958.

12: 1959.

13: 1960, Jan.-Oct.

14: ____, Nov.-Dec.

Box 6

Folder

1: 1961.

2: 1962.

3: 1963, Jan.-Sept.

4: ____, Oct.-Dec.

5: 1964, Jan.-May.

6: ____, June-Dec.

7: 1965.

8: 1966.

9: 1967, Jan.-Apr.

10: ____, May-Dec.

11: 1968, Jan.

12: ____, Feb.-Mar.

13: ____, Apr.

14: ____, May.

Box 7

Folder

1: 1968, June.

2: ____, July.

3: ____, Aug.

4: ____, Sept.

5: ____, Oct.

6: ____, Nov.

7: ____, Dec.

8: 1969, Jan.-Feb.

9: ____, Mar.-Apr.

10: 1969, May.

11: ____, June 1-9.

12: ____, June 10-30.

13: ____, July.

14: ____, Aug. 1-19.

15: ____, Aug. 20-31.

16: ____, Sept.

17: ____, Oct. 1-14.

Box 8

Folder

1: 1969, Oct. 15-31.

2: ____, Nov.

3: ____, Dec.

4: 1970, Jan.

5: ____, Feb. 1-11.

6: ____, Feb. 12-28.

7: ____, Mar.

8: ____, Apr.

9: 1970, May.

10: ____, June 1-17.

11: ____, June 18-30.

12: ____, July.

13: ____, Aug.

14: ____, Sept.

15: ____, Oct.

Box 9

Folder

1: 1970, Nov. 1-16.

2: ____, Nov. 17-24.

3: ____, Nov. 25-31.

4: ____, Dec. 1-11.

5: ____, Dec. 12-31.

6: 1971, Jan.

7: ____, Feb.

8: ____, Mar.

9: 1971, Apr.

10: ____, May 1-10.

11: ____, May 11-31.

12: ____, June.

13: ____, July.

14: ____, Aug. 1-19.

15: ____, Aug. 20-31.

Box 10

Folder

1: 1971, Sept. 1-13.

2: ____, Sept. 14-30.

3: ____, Oct.

4: ____, Nov.

5: ____, Dec. 1-9.

6: ____, Dec. 10-31.

7: 1972, Jan.

8: ____, Feb.

9: ____, Mar. 1-8.

10: ____, Mar. 9-31.

11: ____, Apr.

12: ____, May.

Box 11

Folder

1: 1972, June.

2: ____, July.

3: ____, Aug. 1-10.

4: ____, Aug. 11-31.

5: ____, Sept.

6: ____, Oct. 1-10.

7: 1972, Oct. 11-31.

8: ____, Nov. 1-15.

9: ____, Nov. 16-30.

10: ____, Dec. 1-14.

11: ____, Dec. 15-31.

12: 1973, Jan.

Box 12

Folder

1: 1973, Feb. 1-16.

2: ____, Feb. 17-23.

3: ____, Feb. 24-28.

4: ____, Mar.

5: ____, Apr.

6: 1973, May.

7: ____, June.

8: ____, July.

9: ____, Aug.

Box 13

Folder

1: 1973, Sept.

2: ____, Oct.

3: ____, Nov.

4: ____, Dec.

5: 1974, Jan.

6: ____, Feb. 1-18.

7: ____, Feb. 19-28.

8: ____, Mar. 1-24.

9: 1974, Mar. 25-31.

10: ____, Apr.

11: ____, May-June.

12: ____, July-Aug.

13: ____, Sept.-Oct.

14: ____, Nov.-Dec.

15: 1975.

Box 14 No Date

Folder

1: A-D.

2: E-F.

3: G-H.

4: Julius and Elsa Hollo.

5: ____.

6: I-O.

7: Pa-Polanyi.

8: Pollacsek-Pz.

9: Q-S.

10: Laura Polanyi Striker.

11: Szecsi.

12: T-Z.

13: Unidentified.

14: Unidentified and fragments.

Box 15

John D. Baker and the Society for Freedom in Science Correspondence

Folder

Joseph H. Oldham and the "Moot" Correspondence


Box 16

Marjorie Grene and the Unity of Knowledge Group Correspondence

Folder

1: 1953-1967.

2: 1968, Jan.-Apr.

3: ____, May-Dec.

4: 1969.

5: 1970.

6: 1971-1972.

7: 1973-1974.

8: No date.

9: Manuscripts.

Harry Prosch Correspondence

10: 1967-1969.

11: 1970-1971.

12: 1972.

13: 1973.

14: 1974-1975 and no date.

15: Manuscripts and offprints.

Box 17

Karl and Ilona Polanyi Correspondence

Folder

1: 1913-1917.

2: 1918-1923.

3: 1924-1929.

4: 1930-1933.

5: 1934-1935.

6: 1936-1937.

7: 1938.

8: 1939.

9: 1940-1941.

10: 1942-1943.

11: 1944-1949.

12: 1950-1970.

13-15: No date.

Box 18 Unsorted

Folders


Box 19 Unsorted

Folders


Box 20 Unsorted

Folders

Notes

The Notes are divided into subject and author sections. The subject notes have been drawn together from materials originally labeled "miscellaneous" by Professsor Polanyi's secretary. They have been organized topicallly and placed in alphabetical order. The author notes are compilations of quotes by and commentaries on authors whose work interested Polanyi. All of the author notes are grouped together and are arranged alphabetically by last name.

Box 21

Folder

1: Art.

2: Communism.

3: Congress for Cultural Freedom.

4: Culture.

5: Cybernetics.

6: Economics.

7: Formalization.

8: Heuristics.

9: Imagination.

10: Integration.

11: Knowledge.

12: Liberty.

13: Literature.

14: Logic.

15: Meaning.

16-17: The Mind.

Box 22

Folder

1: Myth.

2: Neurology and psychiatry.

3: Perception.

4: Psychology.

5: Reality.

6: Religion and theology.

7: Science - miscellaneous.

8: Scientific discovery.

9: Scientific knowledge.

10: Scientific organization.

11: Scientific planning and development.

12: Scientific responsibility.

13: Thought.

14-15: Syllabus on unspecifiable elements of knowledge.

16: Washington notes, 1967.

17-19: Miscellaneous notes and fragments.

Box 23

Folder


Box 24

Folder


Box 25

Folder


File Cards:

Artists on Art

Clinical Psychology

La Perception


Introduction

Index of Selected Correspondents in the Michael Polanyi Papers

Manuscripts
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Polanyiana Volume 5, Number 2, 1996, p. 67-107

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