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3 typed sheets, with MS corrections. The second sheet has two sections pasted over the top of the original.
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Received from J. E. King, with other material relating to Wittgenstein, in Nov. 1981.
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Lists attendees at Wittgenstein's lectures and Whewell's Court gatherings in 1930-1931 and 1931-1932. Expands information given in Wittgenstein's Lectures 1930-1932 on Broad's notes, is now 'as sure as I can be that these stem from conversations with Con Drury'; his own friendship with Drury.
Tale of A. E. Housman refusing to let Wittgenstein use his lavatory; 'He [Wittgenstein] was greatly perturbed, indeed very angry, and poured out the whole sorry story to me with great indignation. He was incapable of an unthinking, mean or selfish act of this sort'.
Kindness shown by Wittgenstein to Francis Skinner, and to King himself. 'It has been fashionable nowadays to denigrate great men and to ascribe to them failings which were hidden in their lifetime... Those of us knew LW in the 30's saw not an iota of what Bartley ascribes to him; and [it] is about as remote from his behavior as, say, landing on the moon. Nothing ever suggested to me that there was anything remotely resembling homosexual interest and of all men I have ever met, he was the most ascetic.'
King's confidence in the reliability of his recollections of Wittgenstein's lectures and other conversations with him.
'All of this material has either been published in LW Personal Recollections or in LW Lectures 1930-32 or sent to Brian McGuinness, at Queen's College, Oxford who is writing the biography'.
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Add. MS a 752-755: Notes by J. E. King of lectures by Wittgenstein, along with notes by R. D. Townsend and J. Inman, received at the same time as these notes.
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Wittgenstein, L., King, J., & Lee, H. D. P. (1980). Wittgenstein's lectures, Cambridge, 1930-1932. Blackwell.
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- King, John Ernest (1909-1997), educationalist (Subject)
- Broad, Charlie Dunbar (1887-1971), philosopher (Subject)
- Drury, Maurice O'Connor (1907-1976), psychiatrist (Subject)
- Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar (Subject)
- Skinner, Sidney George Francis Guy (1912-1941), mathematician (Subject)
- Bartley, William Warren (1934-1990), American philosopher (Subject)