University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives

Ref: MS 70

Title: Turnbull Manuscripts

Scope: Documents relating to the work of George Henry Turnbull, Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield from 1922 to 1954, on the Hartlib Papers

Dates: 1922-1961 Level: Fonds Extent: 13 boxes Name of creator: George Henry Turnbull (1879-1961)

Administrative / biographical history: The collection consists of documents relating to the work of George Henry Turnbull on the educational activities of and his circle. The papers include transcripts from the Hartlib Papers, transcripts relating to and , paper’s relating to Dury’s educational theory, ’s letters to Hartlib, Comeniana, preparatory publications for the Massachusetts Historical Society, and other miscellaneous papers.

George Henry Turnbull (1879-1961) was Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield from 1922 until 1954. He was responsible for the rediscovery of the Hartlib Papers, and arranged for them to be deposited in Sheffield.

Source: Deposited in 1964 by Mrs. Turnbull System of arrangement: By category

Subjects: Education Names: Turnbull, George Henry (1879-1961); Hartlib, Samuel (d. 1662)

Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: None Copyright: Variously according to document

Finding aids: Listed MS 70 George Henry Turnbull Papers

70/1/1-465 Notes and drafts of lectures and speeches relating to modern educational theory, 1923-1950 and undated, including:

70/1/75-77 Fichte and Recent Educational Reform in Germany [repr. From The Forum of Education, ii, no. 3, Nov 1924];

70/1/224-234 Typescript of “The Nazi Policy of State Intervention in Education”, [The Education Outlook, xii, no. 3, 1935];

70/1/240-247 Typescript of “Hitler and Fichte: a contrast in educational policy”, [Hibbert Journal, 1938];

70/1/290-299 Typescript of “The change in Fichte’s attitude towards state intervention in education”, [International Journal of Ethics, 1937];

70/1/374-382 Typescript of a lecture to the Sheffield Branch of the Historical Association relating to the Hartlib Papers, 1949;

70/1/383-407 Typescript of a lecture at University College, Swansea, relating to Comenius’s visit to England, 1950.

70/2-25 Transcripts from the Hartlib Papers, undated, comprising:

70/2 Kinner’s letters to Hartlib [Hartlib 1/33/1-104]. 300 leaves

70/3 Dury’s letters and papers [Hartlib 1/1-3, 6-9, 12-16, 18-19, 26, 29]. 99 leaves

70/4 Similar [Hartlib 1/4, 10-11, 20-25, 27-28, 30-32]. 146 leaves

70/5 Similar [Hartlib 2/1-14]. 199 leaves

70/6 Similar [Hartlib 3/1-4]. 314 leaves

70/7 Similar [Hartlib 4/1-2, 4/3 part]. 183 leaves

70/8 Similar [Hartlib 4/3 part]. 101 leaves

70/9 Similar [Hartlib 4/3 part, 4/4-5]. 84 leaves

70/10 Similar [Hartlib 5 part]. 113 leaves

70/11 Similar [Hartlib 5 part]. 82 leaves

70/12 Similar [Hartlib 6/2, 4, 6-7, 9-11]. 186 leaves

70/13 Similar [Hartlib 7/2, 26, 32-33, 52]. 10 leaves

70/14 Similar [Hartlib 8/32, 52]. 4 leaves

70/15 Similar [Hartlib 9/1]. 30 leaves

70/16 Similar [Hartlib 11/1, 12/1]. 15 leaves

70/17 Child’s letters [Hartlib 15/5]. 18 leaves

70/18 Dury’s letters and papers [Hartlib 15/7]. 4 leaves

70/19 Similar [Hartlib 17/2, 5, 7-12; 19/1-11, 20/4]. 311 leaves

70/20 Similar [Hartlib 20/11/49-100]. 96 leaves

70/21 Similar [Hartlib 26/4, 9, 19, 25]. 102 leaves

70/22 “Ephemerides”

70/23 Hartlib’s letters [Hartlib 7/11, 12, 16; 33/3; 46/6, 8]. 96 leaves

70/24 Dury’s letters and papers [Hartlib 21/3-7, 25; 22/3, 5, 19, 26; 24/2-4, 18; 25/2, 7; 26/8; 27/18; 29/1; 53/6, 14]. 169 leaves

70/25 Similar [Hartlib 23/21; 55/20; 60/6, 10; 67/2, 19; 68/2, 4-9; 71/9, 16]. 83 leaves

70/26-29 Transcripts and photostats probably from the Hartlib Papers, undated, comprising:

70/26 Transcripts and letters from Henry More to Hartlib, with bibliographical notes relating to Descartes, [Hartlib 18/1/1-45]. 48 leaves

70/27 Miscellaneous letters of and relating to Dury [mainly from the Hartlib Papers, but a few from other sources]. 87 leaves

70/28 Photostats of Dury’s letters and papers [Hartlib 1/27; 47/2; 48/1; 68/4]. 36 items

70/29 Similar of papers relating to Milton [from the Hartlib Papers?]. 33 items

70/30-48 Correspondence and papers relating to Turnbull’s publications, 1922- 1961, comprising:

70/30 Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation [ed. Jones and Turnbull, 1922], comprising correspondence with the publishers and their agent, 1922-1949 (1-20); correspondence and vouchers with the publishers, relating to Hartlib, Dury and Comenius (London, 1947), 1944-1961. 65 leaves

70/31 “Samuel Hartlib’s papers” [Notes and Queries, vol. 188, no. 7, April 1945, 142ff.], comprising correspondence, 1945-1953, mainly with J.B. Whitmore (4-7, 13-30). 32 leaves

70/32 Correspondence with Sir Giles Isham, 1950-1953, with transcripts of letters in the Isham Papers. 40 leaves

70/33-34 “Samuel Hartlib’s influence on the early history of the Royal Society”, [Notes and Records of the Royal Society, x, 1953], comprising: 70/33 [I] correspondence, 1953, including that with Sir Harold Hartley (1-3); R.H. Syfret (4-6); S. Lilley (7-8); working notes, undated (9-62). 62 leaves 70/34 [II] correspondence with R.H. Syfret, 1948 (1-5; working notes, undated (6-106). 106 leaves

70/35 “Peter Stahl, the first public teacher of chemistry at oxford”, [Annals of Science, vol. 9, no. 3, Sep 1953, 265-270], comprising correspondence, 1953 (1-11); working notes, undated (12-46). 47 leaves

70/36-39 Comeniana, 1920, 1957 and undated [but pre-1958], comprising: 70/36 Offprints with a few working notes, relating to publications in Acta Comeniana for 1957. 14 items 70/37 Working notes, undated [possibly for Hartlib, Dury and Comenius, London, 1947]. 299 leaves 70/38 Similar, undated, relating to Comenius and Milton, and including some lecture notes. 249 leaves 70/39 J.A. Comenii Triertium Catholicum, (Leyden, 1681, repr. In facsimile, Prague, 1920). [Autographed copy of Sir Michael Sadler]. 123 + xii pp. [See also 70/46]

70/40-41 Papers relating to “George Stirk, philosophy by fire, ?1628- 1665”, [Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 38, 1959], comprising: 70/40 Correspondence, 1954, including that with Sir Claude Jenkins (1-2); draft mss. Of the article with a few working notes (7-223). 223 leaves 70/41 Galley proofs. 11 leaves [See also 70/42]

70/42-44 Papers relating to “Robert Child”, [Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 38, 1959], comprising: 70/42 [Enndorsed by Turnbull “Child, Galley proofs”, but comprising:] correspondence with the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1946-1955, relating to the publication of “John Dury’s Correspondence with the Clergy of New England …”; “Robert Child”; “George Stirk …”[Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 38, 1959] (1-18); working notes (19-31); draft typescripts of “John Dury’s Correspondence with the Clergy of New England …” (40-51). 51 leaves 70/43 Draft mss. and typescripts and working notes relating to “Robert Child”, but including also correspondence relating to the sale of a volume of Hartlib mss. from the Harmsworth Library, 1948 (170-194); including that with J.B. Whitmore (170-172, 179-183, 190); with an inventory of the papers compiled by Turnbull [who was allowed access to the papers] (170-194). 195 leaves 70/44 Working notes. 14 leaves

70/45 “Four letters from John Winthrop, junior, to Samuel Hartlib, and one from Hartlib to Winthrop”, [Publications of the Colonial Society of Masschusetts, lxxii, 1961], comprising: working notes (1-43); draft ms. and typescript articles (44-145); correspondence, 1947-1960 (146-154). 154 leaves but 146 is double

70/46 Correspondence with Leonard Forster relating to two poems by Comenius and one by Thomas Randolph, 1960-1961. 14 leaves

70/47 Papers relating to “John Hall’s Letters to Samuel Hartlib”, [Review of English Studies, 1953], comprising: working notes (1075); draft typescript article (76-102); correspondence, 1951- 1953 (103-107). 107 leaves

70/48 Miscellaneous papers, 1919, 1953 and 1960, but mainly undated, including “Comenius and Harvard College” by Albert Matthews, repr. from the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. xxi, 1919, pp. 146-190 (1); “Peter Stahl, the first public teacher of chemistry at Oxford” by Turnbull, repr. from Annals of Science, vol. 9, no. 3, 1953 (2-3); working notes relating to Hartlib and Dury (5-29); similar relating to the “Invisible and/or Philosophical College” (30-33); transcripts of Dury’s letter [?from Hartlib Papers 9/1] (44-80). 80 leaves

70/49 Notes relating to Dury’s educational theory, undated. 274 leaves