Contents of box 4 (mainly correspondence)
The material in this box is organised into 8 folders, and will be described "by folder".
First folder
Course handouts.
Some of these seem to date from ANP's time as a student at the University of Otago (1932-35). Others have probably been given to Prior by colleagues from the Victoria University at Wellington during Prior's stay as a British Council Visiting lecturer in New Zealand, August-September, 1965. See also Ninth folder/box 10.
All items are typewritten. Most are marked by one of the following signatures (added by hand):
- JMH, Victoria University at Wellington (Probably J. M. Hinton)
- GEH, Victoria University at Wellington (I.e. George Hughes)
- OU (i.e. University of Otago)
- University of Otago
Second folder
- Miscellaneous letters: Letter in French from Georges Kalinowski. 31 January, 1964. Letters from Ronald Harrop. 25 January 1965. 8 February, 1965. Letter from Nicholas Rescher. 24 November, 1965.
- Richard Harshman: ' "Empiricalness" and Laplacian Determinism Formulated with Tense and Modal Logic'. T (15 p.). Marked "Philosophy 182, Time and Modality". With handwritten corrections/comments by Prior.
- Correspondence from Jan Lukasiewicz. 3 letters (2 May, 1953, 29 November, 1955, 20 January, 1956). The letters discuss the system C5 (a system of 'strict implication', see also ANP: The System C'5 below).
- A letter on 'The Prisoner's Paradox' (undated; according to Mary Prior possibly from George Hughes); see The Paradox of the Prisoner in Logical Form/box 6.
- A letter on S5 (undated; according to Mary Prior probably from Jonathan Cohen)
- 'Extracts from letters on Modal Systems containing S4'. Ca. 1965. <info>
- Letters from ANP to: Anselm Müller (1 October, 1969), John [Lemmon] (30 November, 1957), David Meredith (20 July, 1956).
- Some notes associated with correspondence with D. Meredith (possibly these notes are by John Lemmon). HW (4 p.).
- ANP: The System C'5 (associated with letters to D. Meredith). Ca. 1957? HWU 8p. <info>
Fourth folder
Letters to Prior from:
- Bochenski (26 October, 1951, 26 October, 1955, 15 March, 1956).
- David Berg (1 December, 1965)
- Jack Canty (12 January/26 March, Year unknown, 20 March, 1968)
- J. Dopp (9 March, 6 April, 2 August, 1957)
- André Gombay (12 February, 1969)
- Ian Hacking (1 December, 1965)
- Søren Halldén (20 August, 1957)
- A.S. Hanson (11 February, 1968
- Desmond Henry (June, 1957)
- Charles Howard (4 June, 1966)
- Z. Jordan (2 December, 1960)
- J.A. Kalman (1 October, 1959)
- Saul Kripke (3 September, 13 October, 1958, 27 February, 1964) <info>
- C.I. Lewis (18 May, 1957)
- David Lewis (6 April, 1967)
- Azriel Levy (27 May, 1969)
- Michael Lockwood (25 December, 1968)
- David Londey (16 March, 1960)
- J.R. Lucas (no date)
- David Makinson (12 October, 1966, 27 June, 21 August, 1969)
- C.B. Martin (23 September, 1957)
- David Meredith (8 August, 1956)
- H. Montgomery (1 December, 1960, 13 June, 10 October, 1968)
- Vernon Pratt (3 November, 1966)
- R.H. Preson (20 October, 1959)
- W. Quine (5 December, 1953, 30 March, 9 June, 1954)
- Nicholas Rescher (23 February, 1966, 1 August, 1966)
- Richard Routley (15 December, 1968)
- Imre Ruzsa (28 September, 1968)
- W.W. Sawyer (10.04.1954)
- Krister Segerberg (26 May, 1966)
- Michael Shorter (22 May, 1959, 27 May, 1969
- Eric Toms (28 July, 1960)
- Christopher Williams (29 may, 1968)
- N.L. Wilson (19 March 1957, 25 June 1957, 26 August, 1957, 1 September, 1959) <info>
- Zeman (6 November, 1963; 4 April 1968) <info>
- B. Wolniewicz (24 September, 1969).
- One letter from Charles Parsons to R.A. Bull, dated 1 April 1969.
Fifth folder
letters from:
- Nino Cocchiarella (5 April, 11 March, 1968)
The following letters are mainly personal:
- Storrs McCall (20 May, 1966)
This letter also contains a discussion of a light cone problem of special relativity.
--- Per Hasle
- Alison Hamilton (2 June, 1966)
- W.B. Stewart (5 November, 1962)
- Antero Palomaki (12 January, 1964)
- Amedeo G. Conte (4 April, 1964)
- Eduardo Garcia Maynez (27 June, 1963)
- Trenchard More (25 May, 1964)
- The Lukasiewicz Reduction of Bivalent C-Pure. Marked 18 August, 1956. CAM (C.A. Meredith). See First folder/box 8.
- a copy of 'Extracts from letters on Modal Systems containing S4', cf. Third folder/box 4.
Sixth folder
- A. Pampapathy Rao: An Attempt at an Alternative Formulation of Relative Consistency Proof for Church's P1. A Propositional Calculus with a Modified Excluded Middle. A Propositional Calculus with Two Monotone Operators. On Logical and Non-Logical Matrices.
- ANP: Comments on Papers by A. Pampapathy Rao. HWU (1 p.).
- Miscellaneous letters from other authors requesting Priors views on their thesises. (Peter Muller, 2 August, 1964, Laurent Larouche, 11 May, 1964, Mr. Sadler, 6 August, 1964).
Seventh folder
Letters from ANP to:
- Roger Gallie (6 November, 1967, 19 June, 1968, 6 May, 1968)
- Benson Mates (6 August, 1954, 5 March, 1968),
- Robert Bull (20/22/24/29 May, 4/5/6/13/17 June, 1 July, 13/30 September, 1968, 1 October, 1969); see Bull/box 1.
- Evan Luard (6 March, 1967)
- Nicholas Rescher (27 March, 1969)
- Storrs McCall (19/20 December, 1966, 11 January, 7 March, 24/27 April, 21 May, 18/23/24 October, 1/2 November, 2/4/11/13/27 December, 1967, 23 January, 1968); See McCall/box 2. <info>
- David Lewis (21 April, 1967, 25 August, 1969)
- Peter Geach (21 May, 1967, 18 January, 1968)
- Jack Smart (21 February, 5 August, 1968)
Letters to ANP from:
- Roger Gallie (18 June, 1968, 2 May, 1969, 27 May, 1970 - to Mary Prior)
- Robert Bull (7 June, 10 August, 10 September, 7 October, 1969). See Bull/box 1.
- H.J Hanham (30 January, 1969, 24 February, 1969)
- David Shwayder (21 March, 1966)
- Jack Smart (31 July, 1969)
- John R. Chidgey (9 October, 1968)
- David Kaplan (19 October, 22 November, 1968) (on Egocentric logic 1968, cf. 1968h.) (see also Folder with material for the book 'Worlds, Times and Selves'/box 7).
- David Lewis (6 April, 16 May, 1967, 9 April, 1970 - to Mary Prior)
Envelope with letters concerning the Priors' stay in the USA 1965, Collected by David Lewis; including Prior's own CV-"form" for the California tour 1965.
Eighth folder
- A paper by R. Kamitz: The Principles of Mathematical Logic and Franz Brentano.
- Letters from M.J. Cresswell (6 September, 11/14/19 October, 1965)
- A note by Vernon Pratt, dated 21.02.1996, which contains a Limerick on Prior's moving to Oxford.
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