Despite all this there are several books on the history of logic eg Kneale & Kneale[?].
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 18:24:51 -0400 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [peirce-l] > To: [email protected] > > As an addendum to Nathan Houser's "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the > Peirce Papers", it might be well to pass along parts of an email > exchange I had over the last few days with Ignacio Angelelli. > > Ignacio wrote on 29 April, in connection with our discussion of lack of > interest in history of logic in some quarters that: > > "Peirce's personal copy of Studies > in Logic is a good example. I.C. Lieb had received it as a gift from P > Weiss around 1950 (how did P Weiss get it... oh well...) . Upon his > death Lieb gave it to our Phil Dept in Austin. It was stored in the > open stacks of the departmental library... can you imagine! It took > lots of paper work to have it transferred to the Humanities Research > Library (where at least in theory my Hist of Log Collection continued > to exist). It was finally catalogued as the little book deserves. But > my point is that none of my logician colleagues was interested in such > a beautiful volume, with so many handwritten remarks." > > In reply, I summarized the main points of Nathan's depressing article > on the abuse of such historically valuable material, and then reported > my recollection that Henry Aiken, whose T.A. I was in the early 1970s, > was among those who has alleged to have gleefully composed his own > lecture notes on the verso of original Peirce manuscripts that he > acquired when the Harvard philosophy department gave away some of > Peirce's papers as souvenirs. I personally can neither confirm nor > disconfirm these claims; I saw Aiken referring in his class lectures to > notes on clearly yellowing paper with writing on both sides, but never > got close enough to get a good look at those pages. > > In his latest communication in this discussion, Ignacio wrote (in part) > on 1 May regarding these "interesting comments on the Peirce library" > that: > > "When back in Austin I should look again into those > items left to the Phil Dept little library by Chet Lieb, because I > seem to remember there was another Peirce volume, a geometry or math > book, of course no recollection of who was the author. Alas, things > and people change. I somehow forced the librarian to accept the > Studies in Logic, as well as a set of papers left by Lieb." > > > ...To be continued...? > > > Irving H. Anellis > Visiting Research Associate > Peirce Edition, Institute for American Thought > 902 W. New York Street > Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis > Indianapolis, IN 46202-5157 > USA > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L > listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to > [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of > the message. To post a message to the list, send it to > [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected]
