Catalogue description Letters from AMT to R. O. Gandy

5 autograph letters signed, 1 typed letter signed, 3 autograph postcards signed and a computer typescript. The letters are all written from Wilmslow where AMT was living when he was a Reader at Manchester University, and where he died. They contain personal material, comments on Gandy's work and thesis, and references to AMT's work. In some cases, all or part of the date has been added in Gandy's hand, indicated by square brackets. The letters comprise:-

- 1 typed letter signed, [Early 1952], original of K/1/80;

- 1 autograph letter signed, 23 Nov. [1952] original of K/1/81;

- 2 letters written on computer typewriter with autograph manuscript corrections, [Early 1953], the first is original of K/1/82;

- 1 autograph letter signed, 11 Mar. [1953];

- 1 autograph letter signed, [Before 30 May 1953], original of K/1/84;

- 1 autograph letter signed, [1953 or 54];

- 3 autograph postcards signed, 8 - 13 Mar. 1954, with 'Messages from the Unseen World', when AMT and Gandy had been discussing Eddington's 'Fundamental Theory' (see Gandy's explanation of these in his letter to M. H. A. Newman in A/8);

- 1 autograph letter signed, [1954], original of K/1/86. See online copies at the Turing Digital Archive

Copies of some of these letters are held in K/1.

Photocopies of the letters dated 1952-4 were replaced by the originals received after the death of Dr. Gandy in March 1996, with an additional letter 'c. 1953 or 54' which had not been photocopied.