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CRS1 Manuscript list of early letters
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS1
Date range No date [1955-56]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00442 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS2 Correspondence with various colleagues
Correspondence

Margaret Albright; S J Fockema Andreae; Hope Bagenal; T C Barker; G C Bascape; E E de Beer; A L Bell; G C Berry; Bodleian Library; Joseph Boughey; Patricia Carson; W Fisher Cassie; Chester Waterworks; Chetham’s Library, Manchester; Institution of Civil Engineers; A S Crosley (Newcomen Society); Derbyshire Archaeological & Natural History Society; W E Doran; R J Forbes; R Glossop; L E Harris; S B Hamilton; S A Harris; J H Harvey; L H Heydenreich; Frank Jenkins; Paul Leimdörfer; Liverpool Public Libraries; H Muhs; G Plantema; A Pallucchini; M Pym; A S Quartermaine; G Ramsden; Colin Richardson; Hans Straub; E G R Taylor; S Morley Tonkin; G Uccelli; J van Veen; F E Wentworth Sheilds; T S Willan; F W Williamson; C A Wilson; Worcester Waterworks; Carlo Zammatio

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS2
Date range Apr 1951 - Aug 1997
Inventory Identifier SKEM00443 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS3 Correspondence with Laurits Bjerrum
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS3
Date range Feb 1949 - May 1964
Inventory Identifier SKEM00444 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS4 Correspondence with Keith Clayton
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS4
Date range Aug 1958 - Oct 1966
Inventory Identifier SKEM00445 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS5 Correspondence with Professor A Dreimanis
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS5
Date range Oct 1963 - Nov 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00446 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS6 Correspondence with John C Frye
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS6
Date range Nov 1963 - Feb 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00447 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS7 Notes, correspondence, etc with R Glossop
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS7
Date range May 1975 - May 1981
Inventory Identifier SKEM00448 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS8 Copy of letter to Professor R P Goldthwait
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS8
Date range Nov 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00449 Box Number 52 Series 12
CRS9 Correspondence with Charles Hadfield
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS9
Date range May 1974 - Dec 1980
Inventory Identifier SKEM00450 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS10 Correspondence with T Hawksley
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS10
Date range May 1956 - Nov 1956
Inventory Identifier SKEM00451 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS11 Correspondence with T K Huizinga, Netherlands Airport Construction Office, The Hague
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS11
Date range June 1948 - Nov 1948
Inventory Identifier SKEM00452 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS12 Correspondence with M P Kerney
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS12
Date range Mar 1965 - May 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00453 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS13 Correspondence, etc with W Kjellman (including obituary), Royal Swedish Geotechnical Institute
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS13
Date range Jan 1947 - Oct 1955
Inventory Identifier SKEM00454 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS14 Copy of letter to Dr Jiri Kukla (Czechoslovakia), enclosing profile
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS14
Date range 4 Nov 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00455 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS15 Correspondence with Roland Paxton
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS15
Date range Apr 1976 - Feb 1979
Inventory Identifier SKEM00456 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS16 Copy of letter to Dr H Remy
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS16
Date range Nov 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00457 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS17 Correspondence, etc, with Professor F W Shotton
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS17
Date range June 1958 - Nov 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00458 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS18 Correspondence with Dr R G West
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS18
Date range Sept 1958 - June 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00459 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS19 Correspondence, etc, with Professor, P Woldstedt
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS19
Date range Oct 1963 - Nov 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00460 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS20 Copy of letter to Professor H E Wright, with enclosures
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS20
Date range Oct 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00461 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS21 Correspondence, etc, with Dr W H Zagwijn
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS21
Date range Oct 1963 - June 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00462 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS22 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with A
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS22
Date range July 1955 - Jan 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00463 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS23 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with B
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS23
Date range Nov 1953 - Dec 1974
Inventory Identifier SKEM00464 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS24 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with B
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS24
Date range June 1971 - July 1981
Inventory Identifier SKEM00465 Box Number 53 Series 12
CRS25 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with C
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS25
Date range Jan 1959 - July 1974
Inventory Identifier SKEM00466 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS26 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with D
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS26
Date range Sept 1964 - Aug 1974
Inventory Identifier SKEM00467 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS27 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with E
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS27
Date range Apr 1961 - Sept 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00468 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS28 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with F
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS28
Date range Feb 1959 - May 1974
Inventory Identifier SKEM00469 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS29 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with G
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS29
Date range Nov 1962 - Oct 1975
Inventory Identifier SKEM00470 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS30 Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with G-H
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS30
Date range Oct 1966 - Mar 1976
Inventory Identifier SKEM00471 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS31 Correspondence on geology (correlation), etc (R B Peck, L Suklje, T C Kenney, C B Crawford, R Merriam, D J Eastaff and J E Hurtbuise)
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS31
Date range Oct 1963 - Apr 1964
Inventory Identifier SKEM00472 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS32 Correspondence with record offices and libraries
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS32
Date range 1980s
Inventory Identifier SKEM00473 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS33 Correspondence and notes relating to various pieces of research, including from record offices
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS33
Date range c. 1978 - c. 1981
Inventory Identifier SKEM00474 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS34 Correspondence with publishers
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS34
Date range July 1948 - June 1973
Inventory Identifier SKEM00475 Box Number 54 Series 12
CRS35 Correspondence with John Wiley & Sons Ltd, relating to History of Soil Mechanics
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS35
Date range Feb 1985 - Feb 1991
Inventory Identifier SKEM00476 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS36 Correspondence with Geoffrey Binnie relating to Binnie’s book, Early Dam Builders
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS36
Date range Sept 1981 - Feb 1987
Inventory Identifier SKEM00477 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS37 Correspondence with Dr Antony Sutcliffe, David Bridgland, etc
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS37
Date range 1960s - 1990s
Inventory Identifier SKEM00478 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS38 Letter to Skempton from P Habib (France) enclosing three of his papers
Correspondence

Habib was one of the team of interpreters who translated Skempton’s lecture

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS38
Date range 21 June 1985
Inventory Identifier SKEM00479 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS39 Two articles by A B[rian] Hawkins, with correspondence between Skempton and author
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS39
Date range Mar 1995
Inventory Identifier SKEM00480 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS40 Typescript of Jacques Heyman, ‘The Stone Skeleton’, with correspondence between Skempton and author
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS40
Date range Nov 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00481 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS41 Letter to Skempton from T S Nagaraj (India) sending copies of three of his articles
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS41
Date range 19 June 1982
Inventory Identifier SKEM00482 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS42 Letter to Skempton from W Colin Rouse, University College of Swansea, with copy of his article, ‘Engineering properties and slope form in granular soils’
Correspondence

To be published in Engineering Geology, and ‘Residual shear strength of ‘sandstone soils’’, Swansea Geographer, vol 10, 1972, pp 22-32

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS42
Date range 16 June 1975
Inventory Identifier SKEM00483 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS43 M Joseph Talobre, ‘The present state of underground penstock technique’ (in French), with letter from author
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS43
Date range 9 Oct 1953
Inventory Identifier SKEM00484 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS44 Correspondence, etc with Chevron Research Co
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS44
Date range Oct 1966 - Feb 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00485 Box Number 55 Series 12
CRS45 Report for English Heritage on Monuments Protection Programme, water and sewage industries, Sept 2000, with letter to Skempton
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS45
Date range Oct 2000
Inventory Identifier SKEM00486 Box Number 56 Series 12
CRS46 Correspondence relating to purchase of books
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS46
Date range July 1962 - July 1973
Inventory Identifier SKEM00487 Box Number 56 Series 12
CRS47 File of correspondence relating to Manchester history lecture
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS47
Date range Sept 1966 - Aug 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00488 Box Number 56 Series 12
CRS48 File of correspondence relating to Leeds lecture
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS48
Date range Aug 1974 - May 1975
Inventory Identifier SKEM00489 Box Number 56 Series 12
CRS49 File of correspondence about outside lectures
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS49
Date range July 1955 - Mar 1976
Inventory Identifier SKEM00490 Box Number 56 Series 12
CRS50 Ring binder containing copies of letters to ‘Mike’ [Chrimes?]
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS50
Date range Feb 1997 - Nov 2000
Inventory Identifier SKEM00491 Box Number 56 Series 12
CRS51 Correspondence relating to Royal Society Related inventory ID: SKEM/ SOC2
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS51
Date range Mar 1971 - June 1976
Inventory Identifier SKEM00492 Box Number 56 Series 12
CRS52 Correspondence relating to engineering group of Geological Society
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS52
Date range June 1965 - Jan 1976
Inventory Identifier SKEM00493 Box Number 57 Series 12
CRS53 Correspondence relating to 6th international conference on soil mechanics and foundation engineering, Montreal
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS53
Date range Feb 1964 - July 1964
Inventory Identifier SKEM00494 Box Number 57 Series 12
CRS54 Correspondence relating to 8th international conference on soil mechanics and foundation engineering, Moscow
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS54
Date range Nov 1970 - Sept 1972
Inventory Identifier SKEM00495 Box Number 57 Series 12
CRS55 Correspondence relating to 9th international conference on soil mechanics and foundation engineering, Tokyo
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS55
Date range Apr 1975 - June 1975
Inventory Identifier SKEM00496 Box Number 57 Series 12
CRS56 Correspondence relating to 11th international conference on soil mechanics and foundation engineering, San Francisco
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS56
Date range Feb 1983 - Sept 1985
Inventory Identifier SKEM00497 Box Number 57 Series 12
CRS57 Loose letters
Correspondence

Not in chronological order; includes one from Barnes Wallis, 5 June 1970

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS57
Date range 1949 - 1970
Inventory Identifier SKEM00498 Box Number 57 Series 12
CRS58 Loose letters
Correspondence

Not in chronological order

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS58
Date range 1971 - 1980
Inventory Identifier SKEM00499 Box Number 57 Series 12
CRS59 Loose letters
Correspondence

Not in chronological order

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS59
Date range 1981 - 1990
Inventory Identifier SKEM00500 Box Number 58 Series 12
CRS60 Loose letters
Correspondence

Not in chronological order; includes undated letters

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS60
Date range 1991 - 2001
Inventory Identifier SKEM00501 Box Number 59 Series 12
CRS61 Folder of correspondence (original file)
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS61
Date range Sept 1981 - Sept 1983
Inventory Identifier SKEM00502 Box Number 58 Series 12
CRS62 Folder of correspondence (original file)
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS62
Date range Sept 1984 - Apr 1993
Inventory Identifier SKEM00503 Box Number 58 Series 12
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