Series 12 - Correspondence


ProvenanceSir Alec Skempton

Inventory Listing

• Correspondence with Roland Paxton
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS15
Date range Apr 1976 - Feb 1979
• Manuscript list of early letters
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS1
Date range No date [1955-56]
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with G
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS29
Date range Nov 1962 - Oct 1975
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with F
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS28
Date range Feb 1959 - May 1974
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with E
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS27
Date range Apr 1961 - Sept 1967
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with D
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS26
Date range Sept 1964 - Aug 1974
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with C
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS25
Date range Jan 1959 - July 1974
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with B
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS24
Date range June 1971 - July 1981
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with B
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS23
Date range Nov 1953 - Dec 1974
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with A
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS22
Date range July 1955 - Jan 1967
• Correspondence, etc, with Dr W H Zagwijn
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS21
Date range Oct 1963 - June 1965
• Copy of letter to Professor H E Wright, with enclosures
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS20
Date range Oct 1963
• Correspondence, etc, with Professor, P Woldstedt
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS19
Date range Oct 1963 - Nov 1963
• Correspondence with Dr R G West
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS18
Date range Sept 1958 - June 1965
• 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
• Correspondence with Charles Hadfield
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS9
Date range May 1974 - Dec 1980
• 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
• Correspondence with Laurits Bjerrum
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS3
Date range Feb 1949 - May 1964
• Correspondence with Keith Clayton
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS4
Date range Aug 1958 - Oct 1966
• Correspondence with Professor A Dreimanis
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS5
Date range Oct 1963 - Nov 1963
• Correspondence with John C Frye
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS6
Date range Nov 1963 - Feb 1965
• Correspondence, etc, with Professor F W Shotton
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS17
Date range June 1958 - Nov 1963
• Copy of letter to Professor R P Goldthwait
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS8
Date range Nov 1963
• Copy of letter to Dr H Remy
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS16
Date range Nov 1963
• Correspondence with T Hawksley
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS10
Date range May 1956 - Nov 1956
• Correspondence with T K Huizinga, Netherlands Airport Construction Office, The Hague
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS11
Date range June 1948 - Nov 1948
• Correspondence with M P Kerney
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS12
Date range Mar 1965 - May 1965
• Correspondence, etc with W Kjellman (including obituary), Royal Swedish Geotechnical Institute
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS13
Date range Jan 1947 - Oct 1955
• Copy of letter to Dr Jiri Kukla (Czechoslovakia), enclosing profile
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS14
Date range 4 Nov 1963
• Correspondence with record offices and libraries
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS32
Date range 1980s
• Notes, correspondence, etc with R Glossop
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS7
Date range May 1975 - May 1981
• Correspondence relating to purchase of books
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS46
Date range July 1962 - July 1973
• Folder of correspondence (original file)
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS61
Date range Sept 1981 - Sept 1983
• Loose letters
Correspondence

Not in chronological order; includes undated letters

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS60
Date range 1991 - 2001
• Loose letters
Correspondence

Not in chronological order

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS59
Date range 1981 - 1990
• Loose letters
Correspondence

Not in chronological order

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS58
Date range 1971 - 1980
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Correspondence relating to engineering group of Geological Society
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS52
Date range June 1965 - Jan 1976
• Correspondence relating to Royal Society Related inventory ID: SKEM/ SOC2
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS51
Date range Mar 1971 - June 1976
• Ring binder containing copies of letters to ‘Mike’ [Chrimes?]
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS50
Date range Feb 1997 - Nov 2000
• File of correspondence about outside lectures
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS49
Date range July 1955 - Mar 1976
• Miscellaneous letters sent to people with surnames beginning with G-H
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS30
Date range Oct 1966 - Mar 1976
• Typescript of Jacques Heyman, ‘The Stone Skeleton’, with correspondence between Skempton and author
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS40
Date range Nov 1965
• 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
• Correspondence with publishers
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS34
Date range July 1948 - June 1973
• 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
• 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
• Correspondence with Dr Antony Sutcliffe, David Bridgland, etc
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS37
Date range 1960s - 1990s
• File of correspondence relating to Leeds lecture
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS48
Date range Aug 1974 - May 1975
• Two articles by A B[rian] Hawkins, with correspondence between Skempton and author
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS39
Date range Mar 1995
• File of correspondence relating to Manchester history lecture
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS47
Date range Sept 1966 - Aug 1967
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Correspondence, etc with Chevron Research Co
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS44
Date range Oct 1966 - Feb 1967
• 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
• Folder of correspondence (original file)
Correspondence
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control CRS62
Date range Sept 1984 - Apr 1993
• 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

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