Scope and Contents Lord Taylour's 1974 - 1979 general archaeological correspondence consists of a series of letters written to and from various archaeologists, constituting inquiries about excavations and excavated materials, requests for workers on excavations, university politics, scholarly opinions on articles and theses, also including various thank you letters for articles, photographs, postcards and Christmas and New Year cards sent. There is also correspondence about topics like general life, family...

Scope and Contents The documents comprise an offprint of an article by A. T. Churchman entitled 'Tomorrow's Battery Today', ('Journal of the Royal Society', (1975); copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to Dr. A. T. Churchman of the Electricity Council Research Centre, London, enquiring about the paper and the 'alleged ancient Sumerian battery'; letter of reply from Churchman, accompanying a page from 'Copper' the journal of the Copper Development Association, referring to the possible discovery of an early...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

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Joseph Needham's original file title reads 'towards the smoking mirror: early civilisations in Asia & Mesoamerica, corresp.'.

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Correspondence, pedominantly with Peter Clayton of the publishers Thames and Hudson, on topics such as author copies, royalties, WDT's suggested revisons of bibliography, figures and text dated 1972, and an eventual decision to issue a revised version dated 1979.

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Typescript Final Version, with annotations in pencil - with a note by WDT 'but amended in the proofs'.
Handwritten letter from F. Stubbings dated 11 Jan 1963 with comments on the Introduction, typescript extracts from a letter by Blegen on the Architecture chapter dated 16 April 1963 (which suggests a complete rewrite), typescript letter from Glyn Daniel on the 'Houses of the Living and the Dead' chapter dated 26 April 1963, interleaved between the manuscript's pages.