Guide to the Bateson Family Papers
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Guide to the Bateson Family Papers
Collection number: MS 113
The University Library
Special Collections and Archives
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
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- UCSC OAC Unit
- Date Completed:
- January 2008
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Bateson Family papers
Dates: ca. 1835-1942
Bulk Dates: (Bulk 1900-1930)
Collection number: MS 113
Creator:
Family, Bateson
Collection Size:
4 document boxes, 1 oversize portfolio
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection includes family correspondence, notebooks, address books, sketchbooks, school papers from Anna Aiken Bateson,
William H. Bateson, Caroline Beatrice Bateson, and John, Martin and Gregory Bateson.
Physical location: Stored in Special Collections & Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights have been transferred from the heirs to the Bateson
Idea Group (BIG) in 2011. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections
and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Bateson Family papers. MS 113. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mary Catherine Bateson, David Lipset, 1987
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes family correspondence, notebooks, address books, sketchbooks, school papers from Anna Aiken Bateson
(b.1829 - d.1918), William Bateson (b.1861 - d.1926), Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson (b.1870? - d.1942), and John Bateson
(b.1898 - d. 1918), Martin Bateson (b.1899 - d.1922) and Gregory Bateson (b.1904 - d.1980).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Bateson family--Archives
Bateson, William, 1861-1926
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980
Related Finding Aids
Other Institutions
- MS Coll 2, Bateson Family Papers, 1829-1940, American Philosophical Society, 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
Collection Contents
Box:Folder 1:1
Anna Aiken Bateson
ca. 1835-1880
Physical Description: 1 folder
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains a scrapbook of Anna Aiken Bateson with geneological history, clippings about the Aiken family and friends,
cards and notes.
Box:Folder 1:2, 4:5-6
William Bateson
1886-1926
Physical Description: 3 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series includes correspondence to William Bateson and photographs. A majority of the correspondence relates to his son
Martin's suicide and his estate.
Box:Folder 1:2
Correspondence
undated
ca. 1913-1926
Box:Folder 4:5
Portrait photograph, Wm. Bateson
ca. 1900-1926
Box:Folder 4:5
Negative of Wm. Bateson
ca. 1900-1926
Box:Folder 4:6
Snapshots from the Russian Steppes taken during the 1886-1887 trip (12, B/W, 3x5)
ca. 1886-1887
Box:Folder 1:3-4, 4:7
Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson
ca. 1905-1942
Physical Description: 3 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains correspondence to Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson, her address book/scrapbook and photographs from a
trip to South America.
Box:Folder 1:3
Correspondence
undated
ca. 1905-1940
Box:Folder 1:4
Address Book 1923
ca. 1923-1942
Box:Folder 4:7
Photographs (13, B/W, 5x7) taken or collected during South American trip to Manaos, Brazil
ca. 1930-1939
Box:Folder 2:1-6
John Bateson
ca. 1905-1918
Physical Description: 6 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains early school sketchbooks, notebooks and one Army book of John Bateson.
Box:Folder 2:1-2
Sketchbooks
Undated
ca. 1905-1906
Box:Folder 2:3
"Caxton" Penny Exercise Book
August 1907
Box:Folder 2:4
"Notes on plants collected round Charter House for the Poole Prize, Summer Quarter, 1916"
1916
Box:Folder 2:5
"Answers to Chemistry Papers"
1917-1918
Box:Folder 2:6
"Officers' Record of Services, Army Book"
ca. 1917-1918
Box:Folder 2:7-9, 3:1-8, 4:8-10, 5:1
Martin Bateson
ca. 1905-1922
Physical Description: 15 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains sketchbooks, school notebooks and papers, photograph album, passports, notebooks and pocket diaries,
photographs and small emphemera of Martin Bateson.
Box:Folder 2:7-8
Sketchbooks (2)
ca. 1905-1910
Box:Folder 2:9
"The Blue Bell Exercise Book"
ca. 1905-1910
Box:Folder 3:1
Album - Photographic competition, St. Faith's, Brownie Division
July 1913
Box:Folder 3:2
"Rugby School Book, Summer Term"
1917
Box:Folder 3:3
"Ideal" Royal Flying Corps - loose leaf notebook
ca. 1918-1920
Box:Folder 3:6
Notebooks, Pocket Diaries
ca. 1919-1922
Box:Folder 3:7
Barclays Bank Ltd. account book
1919-1922
Box:Folder 3:8, 4:10
Misc. ephemera - empty rec'd envelopes, stationary, empty notebooks
undated
Portfolio Portfolio 1
University of Cambridge, St. John's College BA Certificate, Royal Air Force Appoinment
1918
1921
Box:Folder 4:8-9
Snapshots taken during trip(s) to Ireland
ca. 1915-1922
Box:Folder 4:1-4
Gregory Bateson
1912-1936
Physical Description: 4 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains school papers, notebooks, and incoming correspondence of Gregory Bateson.
Box:Folder 4:1
Charterhouse School papers
1912
Box:Folder 4:2
"Natural History Notes, April 15, 1916 - August 15, 1918"
1916-1918
Box:Folder 4:3
Correspondence
undated
ca. 1922-1936
Box:Folder 4:4
Notes on New Guinea
ca. 1922-1925
