Notes, drafts and research material

Handwritten and typed notes of various prominent individuals and societies in the history of psychology. The notes appear to be research material for Kenna's papers and publications. Details are as follows:

Typed material

Copy of "A Technique of Relaxation" adapted from Jacobson "Progressive Relaxation"

Typescript document containing a list of names entitled "Background of Phenomenological Psychiatry" derived from K. Kollee Fortschritte, 1964 with Phenomenology & Psychiatry references by Kenna

Typescript appendices listing officers of The British Psychological Society, undated

Typescript listing of Honorary Fellows of The British Psychological Society, 1904-1966

Typescript list of names from Benjamin Franklin to Bernard Hart

Typescript specimen entries (Smith, W.G. & Sully J) for a proposed Bibliographical Dictionary of Psychologists

Notes on Individuals

Copy of Kulpe O, Iutlines of Psychology, p.16

Copy of "W. H. R. Rivers: a founding father worth remembering", edited version of a talk by Paul Whittle (Dept.of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) to the Zangwill Club of the Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge, 6 December 1997

Copy of ypescript abstrac, " Ernest Jones: Free associations: Memories of a Psychoanalyst", Hogarth Press, London 1959

Typescript biographies on the founding fathers of the British Psychological Society

Copy of a biography of Kleist, (Bernd) Heinrich (Wilhelm) Von (1777-1811)

Short typed biography of Isaac Toddhunter (1820-1884)

Short typed biography of William James (1842-1910)

Copy of an obituary of Franz Boas taken from Man, 1943

Copy of a guide to Atlee Hunt's (1864-1935) papers in the National Library of Australia, Canberra 1964

Copy of Hunt's biography taken from Australian Dictionary of Biography, undated

Typescript lecture delivered to staff and students at The London Hospital by David Goldberg entitled, "The Nature of Psychological Healing", 18 May 1976

Typescript document concerning Galton's circular about a meeting to discuss the propriety of establishing a biological farm

Typescript concerning Galton's "Statistics by Intercomparison"

Typescript entitled "Early History of Pyschology in Aberdeen" (information from Professor Rex Knight)

Handwritten material:

Lecture notes on "The experiences of the sportsman", 4 November 1981

Pencil notes on R. J. Bartlett

Copy of memorial on Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947), with notes

Biography of Wilhelm Lundt (1832-1920)

Extracts from William James' "Mood and Behaviour"

List, with founding dates, of various learned societies

List of members of the Torres Straits expedition, 1898-1899

List of the BPS founding fathers with notes on specialist subjects, ages and the original structure of the BPS

Comprehensive list of the scientific journals of British Psychology

Draft paper on Jacobs' "A proposed Society for Experimental Psychology"

Draft letter to Dr.Mann concerning information on Friz Grabner, 5 September 1989

Notes from Darwin & The Beagle, by A. Moorehead

Lists of many names with birth and death dates

Handwritten notes of Professor James Drever's speech at the BPS Jubilee dinner, undated

Also included in the file are copy letters from the following;

William James to his wife, Leipzig 13 November 1882

Undated letter to Francis Galton, Berkshire undated

Charles S. Myers to Francis Galton, Cambridge, 7 April ?

W. McDougall, C. S. Myers, W. H .R. Rivers, A .F .Shand, J. Ward proposing a new journal 6 April 1903

Handwritten letter from Francis Galton to Professor Waldstein, 14 December 1903

Copy of a handwritten journal entry mentioning W. H. R. Rivers, The Journals of Arnold Bennett, Cassell, 1932

Copy letter from Philip Drake. Public Solicitors' Office, London, thanking Miss E. Tootell, Melbourne, for gift of food parcels, 8 July 1947

c.1960s-1970s

1 file

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.