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Typescript with ms. corrections of an address given at the Boole Centenary Celebrations at Lincoln.

Lincoln - Is sending a copy of his book on the suggestion of Augustus De Morgan; includes errata list.

41 Chalcot Villas, Adelaide Road N.W. - Thanks FA for her note and looks forward to receiving the print of Robert Ellis. Suggests others whom would prize a print: University College, the Astronomical Society, the Royal Society, Mr Mansel of Oxford, and [George] Boole.

Descendant of Susanna Chalmer, aunt of George Boole.

Misc. correspondence re articles or biographies, requests for information, etc.
Includes a long letter from Taylor correcting errors in an article about Mrs. Voynich, published in the Princeton University Library Chronicle, 1967 (see also A.136).

Letter of 1925 is to Stephanie Ravenhill, with advice and plans for her and Taylor's garden. Letters of 1954 contain recollections and anecdotes of George Boole. Includes also a copy of E.L. Voynich's Will, and a press-cutting on her death in 1960 at the age of 96.

Includes also letters from Mary Stott (daughter) 1954, a press-cutting of the obituary of Leonard Stott (son), and a letter re poetry of George Boole.

Includes some letters from Steven Rosner (husband), Marni (daughter) and Ted (son), a letter from Jean Rosner to E.L. Voynich with ms. annotations by Mrs. Voynich, and a pre-publication notice of William Hinton's Fanshen: A documentary of revolution in a Chinese Village, 1966.

Letters from China; that of October 1964 discusses the wide readership of E.L. Voynich's novel The Gadfly in China.

Letters from Howard are dated 15 Aug. 1964 and 15 June 1972. The letter from Margaret is dated 11 Apr. 1973.

Carmelita (née Chase) was the widow of Sebastian Hinton, son of Mary Boole. She was thus a cousin by marriage to Taylor and his close contemporary (b. 1890).
The 1937 letter is addressed from Putney, Vermont, where Mrs. Hinton ran a school; others are from her Pennsylvania home, but many are from various addresses in China which she frequently visited, and always admired. Her son William wrote `Fanshen' on land reform in China, and her daughter Joan settled there. The impact of Chinese culture and ideas on an idealistic American family is well illustrated in these letters.
There is a letter from Taylor dated 7 May 1969 in the sequence, and letters from other members of the family.

Sister Rosemary (Boole), 1965. Grandchildren of Charles Boole above.

Includes 2 letters from Rex Boole (brother of Gabrielle). Gabrielle and Rex, the great grandchildren of William Boole, brother of George Boole.

Correspondents include M.G. Kendall (request for article on Boole to be written by Taylor), H.S.M. Coxeter exhibition of Alice Stott's models, K. Lonsdale exhibition of Alice Stott's models, Edward Avak (Mary Boole), J.H.H. Merriman (new letters of George Boole), W.B. Lewis

Robert H. True (Alice Stott)

H.G. Hopkins

Includes ms. letter from Taylor re Alice Stott's work, and Professor Schoute.
Letters from Kathleen Murray, Norman T. Gridgeman (writings on Boole), Bernard Harrison (with photographs of Booleana), Henry W. Gould, G.F. Heaney (on Robert Everest).

The first 15 letters are by A. P. Rollett; the rest are by his son J. M. Rollet, who continued the correspondence after his father's death in July 1968. A few of the letters by J. M. Rollett bear annotations by G. K. Batchelor.

Presented by Taylor on the occasion of the Centenary. Correspondents include J.O'Malley (Royal Irish Academy), E.F. O'Docherty (University College, Dublin), M.A. MacConaill (University College, Cork), D.T. Piper (National Portrait Gallery)

With photographs of unveiling of commemorative plaque by Taylor, and of members of the Boole family assembled for the occasion (identified on verso by Gabrielle Boole).

In preparation for his biographical talk at Lincoln on the centenary of Boole's death

One of these letters has ms. notes and calculations by Taylor on verso

Material relating to the celebration of the occasion at the Royal Irish Academy, at which Taylor gave a talk `George Boole and his family connexions'. Includes: Invitation to attend, programme of events, a letter from W.C. Kneale on Boole's poetry and a letter from H.B. Hartley re Taylor's article.

Misc. items relating to George Boole.

Includes: 2 autograph signatures of George Boole.

Notes of various items relating to Boole in the possession of the Taylor family.

List of items relating to Boole left at `Farmfield' at Taylor's death, and their disposition (compiled by G.K. Batchelor).

List of material presented by Taylor to the Royal Irish Academy, May 1954.

Press-cuttings re Boole.

Family tree of the descendants of William and Alice Boole.(Photocopy supplied by G.K. Batchelor)
Misc. genealogical notes on the Boole family (to 1879).
Notes for a family tree by Taylor, with a ms. footnote `notes of talk between GIT and E.L. Voynich'