Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1966 Dorothy Moore wrote to a correspondent "My husband kept every scrap of paper that was ever written to him" (DM to M. Elwyn 8E/2/1). Moore did keep letters meticulously, often adding the dates to undated letters and annotating those that contained philosophical arguments. A considerable amount of sorting and listing was done by Paul Levy and his assistants, and the present arrangement may owe as much to their work as to Moore. The greater part of the correspondence consists of letters...

Scope and Contents The majority of the letters came to the University Library in alphabetical files, evidently the contents of a filing cabinet. There was also a small concertina file of letters to Dorothy Moore, mostly from family friends and former tenants. These have been incorporated, since they often include references to Moore, or are addressed to him jointly. A few additional letters were found in other parts of the collection e.g. interleaved in books or lectures, and have been added to the sequence....