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Includes requests for biographical information, charitable solicitations, lecture invitations, editorial correspondence, honors bestowed, internal correspondence of the Institute for Advanced Study, literary solicitations, offprint and permissions requests, and correspondence with professional societies. Also includes unsolicited correspondence from cranks and autograph seekers.
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Includes school exercise books, university course notes, vocabulary notebooks, notes for Gödel's lectures at Vienna and Notre Dame, and several series of notebooks on mathematical logic, philosophy, and current events. Among the notebooks are sixteen "Arbeitshefte" (mathematical workbooks), fourteen labelled "Allgemeine Bildung," nine history notebooks, six designated as "Logic and foundations" and four as "Results on foundations," and fifteen philosophical notebooks including material from before May 1941 until the end of Gödel's life. The philosophical notebooks are designated as "Max 0-XV," of which volume XIII is missing; the second of three theological notebooks is also lost.
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Series 4: Drafts and Offprints, 1929-1980

8 boxes
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Drafts, manuscripts and typescript "Reinschriften," galleys and offprints of Gödel's articles, lectures, and reviews, published and unpublished, in English, German, and Gabelsberger shorthand. Important unpublished items includes Gödel's 1951 Gibbs lecture ( *1951), a longer version of Gödel's essay on relativity theory and idealistic philosophy, "Is mathematics syntax of language?" ( *1953/9), (intended for Schilpp 1963), and a revised English version ( 1972) of the Dialectica paper ( 1958).
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Gödel's collection of preprints and offprints (also includes some TMss and AMss) of his colleagues' work. Preprints and offprints which were sent to Gödel with accompanying correspondence are labeled to indicate the item number of the letter with which they were sent. Correspondence is filed separately in the correspondence Series I and II. Likewise, manuscript notes which once accompanied preprints or offprints have been filed separately, mostly in Series VI, as indicated by the item number recorded on each preprint or offprint. There are additional offprints and preprints at the Institute for Advanced Study Library.
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Kurt Gödel Papers, 1905-1980 (mostly 1930-1970)

C0282 30.75 linear feet 54 boxes, 22 items, and 9 reels
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The papers comprise documents relating to all periods of the life of Kurt Gödel, foremost mathematical logician of the twentieth century, including scientific correspondence, notebooks, drafts, unpublished manuscripts, academic, legal, and financial records, and all manner of loose notes and memoranda.
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This subseries consists of a file run kept by Ruth Bernhard, primarily including business correspondence related to publishing, permissions, print sales, workshops, teaching engagements, video appearances, interviews, exhibitions, and the sale of her photographic archive, along with some personal correspondence, such as fan mail and birthday cards, as well as occasional snapshots, address books, and articles where Bernhard's work was featured or reviewed.
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This subseries contains files by and about Ruth Bernhard, organized and maintained by the Princeton University Art Museum until their transfer in 2013. These files contain sorted original correspondence, both business and personal, as well as agreements, publicity materials, and other documents related to Bernhard's exhibitions, publications, appearances, workshops, and auctions, organized chronologically within each category. Materials cover most of Bernhard's career, from her early professional work for the Museum of Modern Art's Machine Art catalog in 1934 through the late 1990s.
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This subseries includes unsorted correspondence, along with any related enclosures such as magazine clippings, articles, pamphlets, and snapshots that Bernhard kept loose in boxes. Most correspondence in this series is of a personal nature, including many birthday and holiday cards, thank-you cards, and postcards from friends, students, and fans, along with unsolicited commercial mailings, including brochures, magazines, catalogs, and other mass mailings from various arts and cultural organizations. Also present are drafts and duplicate copies of Bernhard's "Dear Friends" form letters, which she often mailed out to fans and students after gaining widespread recognition in her later life, as well as accompanying print-outs with inspirational quotes, lists, and manifestos.
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This series includes three distinct file runs of correspondence and other personal papers and business files, distinguished by their creator and level of organization. The first run contains vertical files kept by Ruth Bernhard, sorted by topic. The second contains artificial files by and about Bernhard, organized chronologically by topic and maintained by the Princeton University Art Museum, including original correspondence as well as correspondence between museum staff and various parties, along with articles by and about Bernhard, exhibition catalogs, workshop materials and advertisements, reproductions of photographs, publishing agreements, and more. The third contains unsorted correspondence and enclosures that Bernhard kept loose in boxes.