J.C.Raven papers II (photocopies)

Photocopies of documents concerning J.C.Raven Progressive Matrices including early correspondence, reports, agreements, diary, handwritten working diagrams, and papers:

Booklet entitled A brief history of Dumfries and the Crichton Royal, 1957

Reviews of new Mill Hill Vocabulary and Progressive Matrices guides, 1958

Words rejected from vocabulary test

Correspondence with Dr Stumper, Luxembourg concerning agreements, 1949

Pages from Raven's handwritten diary, Autumn 1921

Handwritten working papers of the matrices including diagrams, original handbook, 1936

Correspondence from Darwin Trust, Medical Research Counci -RECI, concerning matrices funding, 1943-1949

Correspondence and documents concerning Raven's conscientious objection, 1941-1946

Correspondence between Raven and Spearman (one letter), and Hearnshaw, 1962

Letter from the Crichton Royal Hospital Board of Management directing future correspondence about Progressive matrices to J.C.Raven's private residence following his retirement, 1964

Papers put together for Inspector of Taxes concerning the origins of the matrices fund, 1943-1959

First experimental set of matrices (given to Psychology students at a lecture (King's College London) 03/12/1935)

Report for Medical Research Council on the work of Raven and Miss M. Davidson for the year ending August 1937

Report for the Medical Research Council on the 1936 RECI research series of perpetual tests

1921-1964

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.

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Mental Health Archives digitisation project.

Originals held by John Raven, Edinburgh Scotland and Harcourt USA