| Description | The folder contains typed/ handwritten correspondence between the British Psychological Society BPS and various individuals and other documents concerning 'The Burt Affair'.
Details are as follows:
Letter from Hans Eysenck to May Davidson, President BPS, 3rd February 1977
Letter from J.P.S.Robertson (Canada) to Ralph Hetherington, Secretary General BPS, 25th February 1977
2- copy letters from Ralph Hetherington, Secretary General BPS, to J.P.S.Robertson (Canada) (in reply) 4th and 24th March 1977
Letter from Oliver Gillie to Professor Max Coltheart, (Editor BJP), Birkbeck College, (includes copy of an open letter to Peter Venables BPS President for publication in the British Journal of Psychology), 29th July 1979
Letter from Peter Venables BPS President to Oliver Gillie (in reply), 7th August 1979
Handwritten letter from Charlotte Banks to Ralph Hetherington, BPS Scientific and Professional Secretary, 9th July 1979
Letter from Edgar Anstey to Professor Audley, 2nd May 1980
Letter from J.M.Rolfe RAF Research Branch to Sylvia Downs, Chair Division of Occupational Psychology, 11th June 1980
Letter from Sylvia Downs, Chair Division of Occupational Psychology, to K.J.Connolly, President BPS, 3rd July 1980
Letter from K.J.Connolly, President BPS to The Lord Crowther-Hunt, 4th August 1980
Letter from Peter Kellner to K.J.Connolly, President BPS, 8th August 1980
Letter from K.J.Connolly, President BPS to May Davidson, 8th September 1980
Letter from Halla Beloff to K.J.Connolly, 23rd September 1980
Letter from Colin V.Newman BPS Scientific and Professional Secretary to Halla Beloff, 15th January 1981
Also included in the folder are the following:
A typed draft document for possible inclusion in the BPS Bulletin entitled 'Cyril Burt', 1979
A typed programme of the Symposium in Commemoration of Emeriitus Professor Sir Cyril Burt, BPS Annual Conference, 9th April 1972` |
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