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Ogden, Charles Kay, 1889-1957 (linguist, philosopher and writer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1889 - 1957

Biography

Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) was a linguisitic psychologist and author, who invented Basic English. He was the founder of the Orthological Institute and the Cambridge magazine, and edited the journal Psyche.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

C. K. Ogden: postcard to the Headmaster of Rossall School, 1910-06-30

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/308
Scope and Contents

Postcard to the Revd Edward John Walford Houghton, written from the Hotel Pension du Lac, Champex, Valais, Switzerland. Thanks Houghton for his congratulations on Ogden's examination result.

Dates: 1910-06-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Charles Ogden: Correspondence and Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8309-8314
Scope and Contents The papers include the first draft of The Meaning of Meaning, the work Ogden co-authored with the literary critic I.A. Richards; material relating to Psyche, including correspondence with the authors of Ogden's series of Psyche Monographs and Psyche Miniatures; letters from Ogden's friend, the artist James Wood; material relating to the attempts of Ogden and Ivy Litvinov, the British-born wife of the Soviet Foreign Minister, to introduce Basic English into Russia; and letters from E.B.F....
Dates: 1889-1975 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Series

Letter from Frank Plumpton Ramsey to Charles K. Ogden (1889-1957), 1923 (Circa)

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/124
Scope and Contents

Postcard from Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria, where Ramsay went to visit Wittgenstein and to work on translation of 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'; 'LW explains his book to me from 2-7 every day. It is most illuminating... we seem to get on at about a page an hour... he says that his mind is no longer flexible and he can never write another book'; he teaches in a village school, is very poor, and 'regarded by most of his colleagues as a little mad.'

Dates: 1923 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters from C. K. Ogden to Morison, 1947-1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/D/215
Scope and Contents

Two letters are undated.

Dates: 1947-1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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