Box 8
Contains 50 Results:
Socratic Club, 1942-1980
64 folders
Article: "A Useful Pamphlet" Guardian, August 8, 1944
Mentions Socratic Club, 1p.
Attendance lists (loose leaf) for Socratic Club meetings and discussion groups, undated & 1944-1957
Notes for "Cosmic Christianity" talk by LWG en verso of one page, dated May 26, 1944
1945 Conference on Christian Faith, February-March 1945
Ridley Hall, Cambridge (March 17-20). Contains programs, notes, publicity, listings of students interested in attending the conference, and related correspondence. 49 pp.
Correspondence to and from C.S. Lewis, 1943-1954
The originals of these are stored in the CSL letter collection. 11 letters, 24pp.
Correspondence, various, 1942-1943
28 pp.
Correspondence, various, January-June 1944
Contains letters by and about Dorothy L. Sayers (some originals have been placed in the Dorothy L. Sayers Papers). Also includes, en verso of one letter, notes from talks with H.A.H. (H.A. Hodges), dated May 1944. 49pp.
Correspondence, various, July-December 1944
Contains letters by and about Dorothy L. Sayers (some originals have been placed in the Dorothy L. Sayers Papers). 47pp.
Correspondence, various, 1945-1949
45pp.
Correspondence, various, 1950-1953
33pp.
Correspondence, various, 1964-1980
16pp. (Includes correspondence with Kathryn Lindskoog)
1960-January 1961 SCARS Correspondence
39 pp.
February-December 1961 SCARS Correspondence, 1961
53 pp.
SCARS, 1950-1969
25 folders
Lists and names of Socratic Members, 1942-1955
One SCARS listing included, and some pages contain notes en verso. 37pp.
1962-1964 SCARS Correspondence
14 pp.
SCARS Meeting notes (see also: Conference materials), undated & 1950-1959
46pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, undated & 1942-1943
37pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, January-June 1944
Includes a published copy (from the Socratic Digest) and notes of Stella’s talk, “Concerning the Question: Jesus, Prophet or Son of God?” 45pp.
SCARS Meeting notes (see also: Conference materials), 1960-1969
38 pp.
SCARS Misc. Notes, n.d. & 1959-1969
29 pp. (see also: BBC notebook in the Notebook series, 1968-1986)
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, July-December 1944
Also includes a letter from H.H. Price dated August 19, 1944. 27pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1945
Includes lecture notes from Austin Farrer’s talk, “Can Myth be Fact?” 45pp.
Note cards by Oxford college with names, possibly of SCARS members, ca. 1953-1958
34pp.
SCARS notices and members lists, 1953-1963
36 pp. (see also Socratic Club lists and member names folder, 1942-1955)
SCARS Publicity materials, 1960-1964
3 copies of the “Basis” for the group, with annotations, “SCARS: A Way of Praying for Unity,” 2 published copies and a draft copy of the article in Outlook (London: Church Missionary Society, January 1961, pp. 12-13), a letter from Rev. John Carden of the CMS, September 30, 1960, and an article on SCARS from Ecclesia, pp. 5-6. 10pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, October-December 1949, 1951
41pp.
Speaker names and addresses, ca. 1955-1957
8 pp.
"Theological Shape of the SCARS Silence", n.d.
6 booklets, 6pp. each, and 9 pages of handwritten notes. 15 pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1952
29pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1953-1954
Includes lecture notes from "What would Constitute a Rational Proof of God’s Existence?” by Peter Geach and Colin MacIvor’s “The Need for Metaphysics.” 52pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1960-1961
47pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1962-1963
Includes lecture notes by J.J. Macintosh. 25pp.
Correspondence, undated, with circa dates ranging from 1943-1954
One letter contains notes en verso titled “The Ascension,” speaker: “Gerald,” dated May 23, 1944. One correspondent is most likely Bernard Williams, a Socratic speaker. undated, 32 pp.
Lists and names of Socratic Members, undated, with some materials circa 1953
34pp.
Correspondence, undated, with circa dates ranging from 1945-1956
various. 41 pp.
1943 Conference on Christian Faith, February-March 1943
Jordans, Beaconsfield, Bucks (March 13-16). Contains programs, receipts, notes, and related correspondence. Documents with extreme mold were photocopied and discarded. 22pp.
Attendance list book for Socratic Club meetings, October 1948-February 1953
94pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1946-1949
Includes lecture notes from Renford Bambrough’s talk, “The Task of the Skeptic.” 24pp.
Attendance list book for Socratic Club meetings (includes attached pencil), 1954-1956
35pp.
Correspondence, various, 1954-1958
25pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1950-1951
Includes lecture notes from H.H. Price’s lecture “Is Theism Important?” and I.M. Crombie’s “Theology of Falsification.” 48pp. (see also, notebooks III-IV, April-June 1950 in the Notebook series)
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, Michaelmas Term 1950
1 red notebook containing Socratic Club, Socratic Philosophy group & Socratic Study group notes, name lists, etc. 34pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, Hilary Term 1951
1 red notebook containing Socratic Club notes, etc. Also includes O.U.C.U. notes. 37pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1957-1959
49pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1964-1966
43pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1955-1956
62pp. See folder 443 for "Miracles" lecture by Alastair MacIntyre given May 14, 1956.
Minute book of Socratic Club meetings, including an undated letter from Valerie to Stella found in the minute book, with names en verso, 1942-1944
73pp.
Meeting notes and lectures of the Socratic Club, 1968-1969
38pp.
Stella Aldwinckle Papers
This archive contains personal and professional papers relating to Stella Aldwinckle, the founder of the SocraticClub (which included C.S. Lewis) and member of the Oxford Pastorate staff at Oxford University.