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
1: 1941-1973.
2: Announcements, manuscripts, and offprints.
Joseph H. Oldham and the "Moot" Correspondence
3: 1940-1947.
4: 1948-1951.
5: 1952-1964 and no date.
6: Manuscripts for presentation at meetings of the Moot, 1942-1944.
7: ____, 1945-1946.
8: ____, 1947-1948.
9: ____, 1960.
10: ____, no date.
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
1-11: Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Memorabilia of Cecile Polanyi.
Box 19 Unsorted
Folders
1-10: Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Memorabilia of Cecile Polanyi.
Box 20 Unsorted
Folders
1-6: Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Memorabilia of Cecile Polanyi.
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
1: Lord Acton, D. K. Adams, John Couch Adams, C. K. Allen, E. N. Da Costa Andrade, Agnes Arber, Aristotle, Kenneth Arrow, Association of Scientific Workers, R. J. C. Atkinson, St. Augustine, A. J. Ayer
2: Walter Bagehot, John D. Baker, Robert H. Baker, Michael Balint, Lawrence Balls, Owen Barfield, J. Baron, William Barrett, Carl Barth, Charles Baudelaire, A. G. Baumgarten, Bertrand Beaumont, Carl Becker, Ruth Benedict, Jeremy Bentham, Charles Berg, George Berkeley, Isaiah Berlin
3: A. Bethe, Ernst Bevin, Ludwig Bieberbach, Max Black, H. J. Blackham, Brand Blanshard, E. G. Boring, Franz Borkenau, Max Born, Bernard Bosanquet, J. Bradford, James Braid, Lord Brain, Franz Brentano, Percy W. Bridgman, Crane Brinton
4: Karl Britton, D. W. Brogan, Charles V. W. Brooks, Lloyd A. Brown, Lenny Bruce, Rudolf Bultmann, Jacob Burckhardt, Edmund Burke, D. Burlingham, J. B. Bury, M. Butenko, Samuel Butler, Herbert Butterfield, F. J. J. Buytendijk, Major Byron
5: Norman Robert Campbell, S. Cannizzaro, W. B. Cannon, Hadley Cantril, Justice Cardoza, Rudolf Carnap, Edward Hallett Carr, E. Cassirer, Nicola Chiaromonte, G. Childe
6: Roderick M. Chisholm, Noam Chomsky, E. M. Chossudowsky
7: Galeazzo Ciano, E. Claparede, W. K. Clifford, Morris R. Cohen, G. D. H. Cole, Samuel Coleridge, R. G. Collingwood, Alistair Cooke, Copernicus, F. C. Copleston, Gabor Cossa, Maurice Cranston, O. G. S. Crawford, Ernest Crocker, A. C. Crombie, J. G. Crowther
8: Albert Dalcq, Honoré Daumier, Simone de Beauvoir, J. De Boer, Democritus, René Descartes, Friedrich Dessauer, John Dewey, Charles Dickens, Henry D. Dickinson
9: Diogenes, P. A. M. Dirac, Maurice Dobb, S. Dobrin, Peter Doig, Rene Dubos, Pierre Duhem, E. F. M. Durbin
10: Ralph Eaton, Ilya Ehrenburg, Jan Ehrenwald, Albert Einstein, T. S. Eliot, J. Elliotson, Walter N. Elsasser, Charles W. Eriksen, Erwin A. Esper, Leonard Euler, E. E. Evans-Pritchard
11: Francoise Faber, Michael S. Farbman, Herbert Feigl, Raymond Firth, Irving Fisher, R. A. Fisher, Constantine Fitzgibbon, P. Sargant Florence, M. Fortes, H. Munro Fox, Max Frisch, Kurt von Fritz, J. F. Fulton,
12: Alan H. Gardiner, José Ortega y Gasset, F. H. George, A. Gesell, C. V. Gheorghiu, K. Gibberd, Edward Gibbon, J. J. Gibson, André Gide, Charles C. Gillispie, E. Gilman, Nicholas Gimes, Etienne Gilson, A. D. Glanville, E. Glover, M. Gluckman, John Godley
13: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, I. J. Good, Geoffrey Gorer, Alvin W. Gouldner, Alexander Gray, J. S. Gray, Marjorie Grene, Adolf Grnbaum, Luther Gulick
14: J. A. Bierens de Haan, Kurt Hahn, Charlotte Haldane, J. S. Haldane, Elie Halevy, Philip P. Hallie, Barbara Hammond, John L. Hammond, N. R. Hanson, D. W. Harding, Sir Alister Hardy, G. H. Hardy, R. M. Hare, S. C. Harland, Romano Harré, G. Hart, H. L. A. Hart, Liddell Hart, A. H. Hastorf, F. A. Hayek, D. O. Hebb
15: L. Heck, G. W. Hegel, H. L. F. Helmholtz, C. G. Hempel, David Henderson, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Gordon Hewart, Ernest P. Hilgard, Thomas Hobbes, A. M. Hocart, Paul Henri d'Holbach, J. Holloway, S. J. Holmes, Erik von Holst, Homer
16: Sir J. D. Hooker, Karen Horney, A. E. Housman, L. E. Hubbard, R. Hughes, Clark L. Hull, George Humphrey, Evan Hunter, Edmund Husserl, Julian Huxley
Box 24
Folder
1: Orvis C. Irwin, William James, Storm Jameson, Sir James Jeans, Geoffrey Jefferson, N. Jeffreys, Otto Jespersen, C. E. M. Joad, Harry M. Johnson, Hewlett Johnson, H. Spencer Jones, J. W. Jones, Mansel Jones, C. G. Jung
2: Joseph Kälin, Immanuel Kant, David Katz, Walter Kaufmann
3: Jacques Kayser, Paul Kecskeméti, W. N. Kellogg, Peter Kende, Kenneth Keniston, C. S. Kenny, Johannes Kepler, J. M. Keynes, Gregory A. Kimble, A. W. Kinglake, Rudyard Kipling, E. L. Kirchner, George Klein, C. Kluckhohn
4: Arthur Koestler, K. Koffka, Eugen Kogon, Ivo Kohler, Wolfgang Köhler, K. Kottenhoff, Alexandre Koyre, I. Krechevsky, Thomas Kuhn
5: G. A. de Laguna, R. D. Laing, Charles Lamb, Johannes Lange, Susanne K. Langer, Pierre Laplace, K. S. Lashley, Lancelot Lawton, W. E. H. Lecky, G. W. Leibnitz
6: N. Lenin, W. F. Leopold, Hermann Levy, Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Kurt Lewin, Clarence I. Lewis, W. A. Lewis, H. S. Liddell
7: Lord Lindsay, Leonard Linsky, Ralph Linton, Walter Lippmann, John Locke, Otto Loewi, Konrad Lorenz, H. A. Lorentz, F. Lorimer, R. H. Lowie, T. D. Lysenko
8: William McDougall, D. V. McGranahan, N. Machiavelli, Admiral Mahan, N. R. F. Maier, Sir Henry Sumner Miane, Bronislaw Malinowski, John M. Manly, Jacob Marshak, J. H. Massermann, Henri Matisse, W. Somerset Maugham, James Clerk Maxwell, Margaret Mead, P. B. Medawar, Friedrich Meinecke, Philip Melanchthon, J. A. Melrose, Robert K. Merton, Albert Michelson
9: Andé Michotte, N. Micklem, Idézet G. Miklos, J. S. Mill, George A. Miller, Richard von Mises, Ian I. Mitroff, Joseph-Marie Montmasson, C. W. Morris, W. A. Mozart, Carl Murchison, Gilbert Murray
10: S. F. Nadel, Joseph Needham, Ernest Newman, John Henry Cardinal Newman, Max Newman, Harold Nicolson, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Niggli, F. S. C. Northrop, Michael Oakeshott, John Oman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, W. Ostwald
11: C. F. A. Pantin, Paracelsus, Sir J. H. Parsons, Talcott Parsons, J. R. Partington, R. Pearl, D. F. Pears, Karl Pearson, Wilder Penfield, C. V. Peursen, O. Pfungst, F. A. Philbrick, Charles Louis Philippe, Jean Piaget
12: Pablo Picasso, Max Planck, Arnold Plant, Plato, Henri Poincaré, Sir Fredrick Pollock, Georg Polya, Karl Popper, F. M. Powicke, Derek J. de Solla Price, H. H. Price, Terence Prittie
13: W. V. Quine, Gerhard Rasmussen, Hermann Rauschning, Charles E. Raven, Herbert Read, G. Revesz, Quentin Reynolds, Rheticus, Willis B. Rice, I. A. Richards
14: M. Richardson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerhard P. Ritter, D. H. Robertson, E. A. G. Robinson, Joan Robinson, J. J. Rousseau, Bertrand Russell, E. S. Russell, H. N. Russell
Box 25
Folder
1: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Andrew Salter, S. Sambursky, Edward Sapir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Sauveur, Martin Scheerer, Max Scheler, Frank Schlesinger, J. A. Schumpeter, Leopold Schwarzschild, John Scott, Michael Scriven
2: Ignaz Seipel, R. S. Shankland, Hugh Shearnon, A. D. Sheffield, P. B. Shelley, Sir Charles Sherrington, Edward Shils, Charles Singer, B. F. Skinner, J. J. C. Smart, Howard K. Smith, J. N. Smith, Lillian Smith
3: Maynard Smith, T. B. Smith, A. Smits, J. C. Smuts, Bruno Snell, F. Soddy, R. V. Southwell, C. Spearman, Herbert Spencer, Roger W. Sperry, Joseph Stalin, Sir Josiah C. Stamp, Franz Stampfl, L. Susan Stebbing, K. Steer, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Karin Stephen, Charles L. Stevenson, G. F. Stout, John Strachey, E. B. Strauss, Leo Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, P. F. Strawson, Count Stürgkh, Z. Stypulkowski, H. Sutherland
4: Alfred Tarski, F. Sherwood Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Denys Thompson, L. L. Thurstone, Paul Tillich, Rudolf Tischner, E. C. Tolman, Stephen Toulmin, George M. Trevelyan, Lionel Trilling, W. Trotter
5: Stephen Ullman, J. O. Urmson, Peter Usley, Paul Valerie, Immanuel Velikovsky, G. N. A. Vesey, Sir Geoffrey Vickers, Mark Vischniak, Karl Vossler
6: C. H. Waddington, Friedrich Waismann, A. Wald, Graham Wallas, W. H. Walsh, A. F. Watts, Richard M. Weaver, Max Weber, Simone Weil, J. R. Weinberg, Paul Weiss, Viktor von Weizsäcker, Max Wertheimer, George P. West, Hermann Weyl, W. M. Wheeler, William Whewell
7: A. N. Whitehead, Norbert Wiener, Basil Willey, Charles Williams, R. A. Wilson, R. S. Woodworth, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Orville and Wilbur Wright, H. G. Wyatt, William Butler Yeats, Catherine York, Lin Yutang, Ernst Zinner, Carl Zuckmayer
File Cards:
Artists on Art
Gaston Bachelard, A. J. Bachrach, William Barret, Reinhard Bendix, Rene Berthelot, Maine de Biran, Erwin Boring, K. E. Boulding, J. Bronovski, Jerome S. Bruner, Kenneth Burke, Edwin Burit
Clinical Psychology
Coleridge, A. D. Crombie, J. G. Crowther, Friedrich Dessauer, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Jacques Ellull, Austin Farter, Leon Festinger, A. Gruenbaum, Georges Gusdorf, William S. Haas, N. R. Hanson, Ralph Hefferline, E. E. Hirschmann, William James, Kepler, John F. Kennedy, Ivo Kohler, Lerzch Kolakowski, Alfred Korzybski, K. S. Lashley, Thomas Mann, Simon Marcus, Adolf Sperl, A. Michotte, George A. Miller, A. J. M. Milne, Oskar Morgenstern, Desmond Morris, S. F. Nadel, Everett C. Olson, R. R. Palmer, A. Pannekoek, William Penn
La Perception
Rheticus, Harrison E. Salisbury, Th. R. Sarbin, Max Scheler, Hugh Seton-Watsonn, Murray Sidman, Bruno Snell, P. F. Strawson, W. Edgar Vinacke, Waddington, Wasil Willey, Viktor von Weizsäcker, Sheldon S. Wolin
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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