Individuals and Crichton Admin Notices

Contains the following:

Photocopies of biographical information about John Raven, including a letter from him to Professor L. S. Hearnshaw outlining his career, 26 Sep 1962

Correspondence with Marjorie Sisson, 1946-1954, concerning her revisions of his work Controlled Projection, and her use of his Projection Test at the Cambridge clinic.

Correspondence with Alastair J. Weir, 1948-1958, including abstract of Weir's paper entitled "A Developmental Study of Value Judgements in Old Age", and draft copies of his articles "The Effect of Partial Similarity on the Reproduction of Line drawings: A Preliminary Study", and "A Comparative Study of the Drawings Made by Various Clinical Groups", by Weir and A. W. Martin, along with a small amount of correspondence mainly concerning Weir's planned visit to the Crichton Hospital in 1949.

Correspondence with and from D. Walton, 1956. Also includes a pamphlet with compliment slip from D. Walton entitled Reply to H. Gwynne Jones: The Validity and Interchangeability of Terman-Merrill and Matrices Test Data Vol.XXV. Part III. Nov 1955. Also includes Raven's comments on Walton's paper "Terman-Merrill and Matrices Test Data on 360 Intermediate Approved School Boys"

Correspondence with and from A. W. Martin, 1950-1955, including reprint of Martin's article with James E. Wiechers entitled "Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children".

Correpondence with Avis M. Dry, 1954-1957, including draft notes on The Introvert, and The Extrovert,

Abstract of Mysticism, by Evelyn Underhill (abstracted 1947), and a resumé of her career up to 1955

The file also includes administrative correspondence connected with the running of The Crichton Hospital, 1947-1961, and duplicate leave sheets, 1956-1959.

1946-1962

1 file (in 2 parts)

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.

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