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Ramsey, Frank Plumpton, 1903 - 1930 (mathematician and philosopher)

 Person

Dates and places

1903-1903 KCC 1924

Sphere of activity

Admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1920. Elected Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Lecturer in Mathematics, 1924. Elected University Lecturer and Director of Studies in Mathematics at King's, 1926.

Admin / Family structure

Married Lettice Cautley Baker in 1925

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

 File

'Better than the Stars: A Radio Portrait of Frank Ramsey', 1978

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/FPR/X/1/Mellor
Scope and Contents

CD recording of 'Better than the Stars: A Radio Portrait of Frank Ramsey', written and presented by D. H. Mellor. The programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 27 Feb. 1978.
To request this document please use call mark: Misc. 30/43.

Dates: 1978
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Correspondence between J.M. Keynes and Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1913 - 1939

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/PP/45/349
Scope and Contents 27 autograph letters, signed, 4 autograph postcards, signed (1 also signed by G.E. Moore), and 1 telegram to J.M. Keynes. 1913-39 and undated.1 draft letter, photocopies of 5 autograph letters, signed, and 1 carbon typed letter, signed, from J.M. Keynes, 1915-35.This file also contains 3 autograph letters, signed, from Bertrand Russell to J.M. Keynes, [1912]-19; 1 autograph letter, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed, from G.E. Moore to J.M. Keynes, 4 Sept. n.y., 6 Sept. 1914; 1...
Dates: 1913 - 1939
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Discussion after publication, 1921 - 1922

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/TP/1/1/35-116
Scope and Contents

This file includes exchanges with C.D. Broad, F.Y. Edgeworth, F.P. Ramsey and others.

Dates: 1921 - 1922
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'Four early twentieth-century philosophers', 2004

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/MM/Cave
Scope and Contents

This is a typescript preprint of an entry written for the 'Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers' (Theommes Press, Bristol, 2005) for JMK.

Dates: 2004
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Galley and page proofs, with photographs, 1932-10

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/B/4
Scope and Contents

This file comprises galleys of footnotes to the article on A. Marshall, stamped 22 October; page proofs of part of an obituary of A.J. Balfour [1st published June 1930], stamped 25 October, and proof photographs of F.Y. Edgeworth, A. and M.P. Marshall and F.P. Ramsey. It also includes a print of F.Y. Edgeworth in Red Cross uniform during World War One and 3 sheets of photographs of A. Marshall from J.M. Keynes' memoir. Some items have been emended by J.M. Keynes.

Dates: 1932-10
 File

Letter from Frank Plumpton Ramsey to J.M. Keynes, 1925-12-11

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/PP/45/262
Scope and Contents

1 autograph letter, signed.

Dates: 1925-12-11
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Letters from Frank Plumpton Ramsey and an item concerning his death, 1923 - 1930

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/WJHS/1/85
Scope and Contents

14 autograph letters, signed.
This file also includes 1 autograph postcard, signed from Richard Braithwaite announcing the death of Frank Plumpton Ramsey. [p.m. 10 Jan. 1930]

Dates: 1923 - 1930
 Fonds

Ramsey: The Papers of Frank Plumpton Ramsey

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/FPR
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises originals and photocopies of personal and family papers, including correspondence with Lettice Ramsey (nee Baker) and her memoir of him, letters from Frank to his parents, his diaries, a paper he read to the Apostles, his parents' scrapbook about him, a [draft] letter from Frank to Ludwig Wittgenstein, a draft article, photographs mostly of Frank, and obituaries.

Dates: 1903 - 2020