Papers of Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett C.B.E., F.R.S. 1886 - 1969

The collection refers entirely to Bartlett's scientific and professional work. It comprises notebooks, a small amount of correspondence, and drafts or notes for lectures, addresses and papers; many are written on the backs of undergraduates' essays or examination scripts, and very few are dated. Where the material corresponds or is related to an entry in The Writings of Sir Frederic Bartlett, CBE., FRS: an annotated handlist by A.D. Harris and O.L. Zangwill (Br. J. Psychol., (1973), 64, 493-510), a note has been made to that effect, in the form 'H. and Z. no.'. Items without such a note are either additional to the handlist, or unpublished.

The notebooks of Bartlett's early experiments on memory and association tests 1914-17 (CSAC 36.13.75/A.4; CSAC 36.13.75/A.6-A.9; CSAC 36.13.75/A.11) are of interest.

There is no biographical material as such, but B.86 contains an autobiographical account of Bartlett's early life, and Cambridge period up to 1914.

Titles and descriptions in inverted commas are those which appear on the notebooks or manuscripts. All items are manuscript unless otherwise indicated.

The help of Dr. A.D. Harris in dating and attributing manuscripts is gratefully acknowledged.

Copies of Harris and Zangwill's Handlist, and Dr. D.E. Broadbent's Memoir (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1970, 16, 1-13) are included with CSAC 36.13.75/A.1.

Contents

A. Notebooks CSAC 36.13.75/A.1 - CSAC 36.13.75/A.42

B. Lectures, Addresses, Reports CSAC 36.13.75/B.1 - CSAC 36.13.75/B.88

C. Publications CSAC 36.13.75/C.1 - CSAC 36.13.75/C.32

D. University of Cambridge CSAC 36.13.75/D.1 - CSAC 36.13.75/D.5

Listed by Jeannine Alton and Harriot Weiskittel

The papers were received from Lady Bartlett; some material remains in family hands.

Summary of the career of Sir Frederic Bartlett

b. 1886; educ. privately

1909 B.A., London, Philosophy, 1st Class

1911 M.A., London, special distinction in Sociology & Ethics

1911-14 St. John's College, Cambridge; Moral Sciences Tripos, 1st Class Assistant Director, Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge married Emily Mary Smith

1922 Reader in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge

1922-52 Director, Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge

1924-48 Editor, British Journal of Psychology

1931-52 First Professor of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge

1932 Elected to the Royal Society

1941 C.B.E.

1943 Baly Medal, Huxley Medal

1948 Knighted

1952 Royal Medal