Inventory of the Gregory Bateson Papers
Inventory of the Gregory Bateson Papers
Collection number: MS 98
The University LibrarySpecial Collections and Archives
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
- Processed by:
- UCSC OAC Unit
- Date Completed:
- March 2008
- Encoded by:
- Maureen Carey
| May 9, 1904 | Born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England. Third son of William Bateson (b. Aug. 8, 1861) and Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson (b. 1870?). Brothers, John Bateson (b. April 22, 1898 - d. 1918) and Martin Bateson (b. 1899 - d. April 22, 1922). Grandson of William H. Bateson, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Anna Aitken Bateson. |
| 1913-1917 | Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England |
| 1917-1921 | Student, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England |
| 1918 | Death of brother, John Bateson |
| April 22, 1922 | Suicide of brother, Martin Bateson |
| January - September 1922 | Studies French & Botany at the University of Geneva and in Canton de Valais |
| 1922-1926 | Student, Cambridge University |
| Entrance Scholar, St. John's College, 1922 | |
| Foundation Scholar, 1924 | |
| Natural Science Tripos, First Class Honors, 1924 | |
| B.A., Natural Science, 1925 | |
| Anthropological Tripos, Pt.I, First class honors, 1926 | |
| December 1924 - June 1925 | Expedition to Galapagos, engaged in research on Geospizae for British Museum Bird Department and collection of pelagic Coelenterates under William Beebe, Arcturus Expedition |
| 1925-1926 | Anthropological Tripos, Pt.II under A.C. Haddon, Cambridge University; Classes in Social Psychology under F. C. Barlett and J. MacCurdy, Cambridge University |
| February 8, 1926 | Death of father, William Bateson. |
| 1926-1928 | Anthony Wilkin Student, Cambridge University; Strathcoma Student, St. John's College, Cambridge |
| September 1926 | Study in Germany |
| January 1927 - January 1928 | Anthropological field work in New Britain among the Baining of the Gazelle Peninsula |
| April - July 1928 | Teacher, Melanesian Linguistics, Sydney University |
| October 1928 - January 1930 | Anthropological field work among the Sulka of the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain and the Iatmul of New Guinea |
| 1930 | M.A., Anthropology, Cambridge University; Classes under Malinoski at London School of Economics |
| 1931-1937 | Research Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge |
| January 1932 - Summer 1933 | Anthropological field work among the Iatmul of New Guinea |
| 1933-1935 | Worked on Naven at St. John's College, Cambridge |
| In Ireland with Waddington | |
| Experimental Psychology under F. C. Bartlett | |
| Visit to U.S., lecturing at Columbia University and the University of Chicago | |
| January 1936 - March 1938 | Anthropological field work with Margaret Mead in Bali |
| March 1936 | Married Margaret Mead (b. December 1916 - d. November 1978) in Singapore |
| December 1936 | Publication of Naven |
| 1937 | Elected William Wyse Scholar in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University (resigned 1945) |
| April 1938 - February 1939 | Anthropological field work with wife, Margaret Mead among the Iatmul of New Guinea |
| February - March 1939 | Anthropological field work with wife, Margaret Mead in Bali |
| September 1939 - January 1940 | Voluntary work in England: analysis of radio broadcasts (Nazi) under Bartlett; and work with Mass Observation with T. Harrison, analyzing public opinion questionnaires |
| December 8, 1939 | Birth of daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson |
| January 1940-September 1942 | Analysis of Balinese and Iatmul material in collaboration with Margaret Mead, as guest of Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History |
| October 1940-1942 | Secretary of the Committee for National Morale and the Council for Intercultural Relations (later Institute for Intercultural Studies) |
| Secretary for the Council on Human Relations for first few months | |
| Worked for the Committee for National Morale. | |
| Secretary of the Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences | |
| Member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences | |
| May 1941 | Death of mother, Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson |
| May 1942 | Macy conference on Cerebral Inhibition |
| September 1942 - June 1943 | Film Analyst, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York |
| December 1942 | Publication of Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis with Margaret Mead |
| January 1943 - January 1944 | Teacher of Melanesian Pidgin English, Naval School of Military Government & Administration, Columbia University |
| July 1943 - November 1945 | Staff planner and Regional Specialist for Southeast Asia, U.S. Office of Strategic Services; overseas in Ceylon, India, Burma & China |
| November 1945 - September 1946 | Research into Balinese culture conducted at the American Museum of Natural History |
| March 1946 | First Macy Conference on Feedback Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems in Biological and Social Sciences |
| September 1946 - June 1947 | Visiting Professor of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, NY |
| Meeting on Teleological Mechanisms in Society | |
| New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Teleological Mechanisms | |
| Guggenheim Fellow | |
| 1947-1948 | Associate in Columbia University Seminar in "Contents and Methods of the Social Sciences" |
| Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusett | |
| September 1948 - October 1949 | Research Associate with Dr. Jurgen Ruesch at the Langley Porter Clinic, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, CA |
| November 1949 - 1963 | Ethnologist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, CA |
| October 23, 1950 | Divorced from Margaret Mead |
| 1950 | Married Elizabeth Sumner |
| 1951 | Birth of son, John Bateson |
| 1951 - 1963 | Publication of Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry by Jurgen Ruesch, Gregory Bateson |
| Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University, CA | |
| 1952-1954 | Director, Rockefeller Foundation grant research project on the Role of Paradoxes of Abstraction in Communication |
| 1954-1959 | Director, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication |
| 1956 | Becomes naturalized U.S. citizen |
| Begins work on The Natural History of an Interview project | |
| 1957 | Divorced from second wife, Elizabeth Sumner |
| 1958 | Navan re-issued with new preface and epilogue |
| 1959-1962 | Principal Investigator, Research in Family Psychotherapy, funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry |
| Visiting Professor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
| Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award for Research in Schizophrenia | |
| Publication of Perceval's Narrative | |
| Began work with octopus | |
| 1961 | Married third wife, Lois Cammack |
| 1963-1964 | Associate Director, Communication Research Institute, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands |
| Career Development Award, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | |
| 1965-1972 | Associate Director, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii |
| Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii | |
| Professor & Director, International Honors Program, International School of America, traveling around the world | |
| Publication of Steps to an Ecology of Mind | |
| April 13, 1969 | Birth of daughter, Nora Bateson |
| 1972-1978 | Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
| Appointed to Board of Regents of the University of California | |
| November 15, 1978 | Death of Margaret Mead |
| 1978-1980 | Scholar in residence, Esalen Institute |
| Worked on Where Angels Fear to Tread | |
| Publication of Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity | |
| July 4, 1980 | Dies at the Zen Center, San Francisco, CA. |
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
- MS 113, Bateson Family Papers, ca. 1835-1942
- MS 206, Mark Engels Papers, ca. 1933-1987
- MS 297, David Lipset Papers, 1943-1982
- MS Coll 2, Bateson Family Papers, 1829-1940, American Philosophical Society, 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
- #03361 Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978), Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Collection Contents
Series 1 Correspondence 1922-1980
Series Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
A - Amsterdam Conference 1943-1979
Andelson, Jonathan - Atoms 1945-1980
Attneave, Fred - Bateson G. 1939-1980
Bateson, G. - Bersok, Cathy 1946-1980
Bibliographies - Brody, Mike 1946-1980
Broom, Leonard - Catholic University of America 1946-1980
Cecil, Lorna - Coleman, William n.d., 1961-1979
Scope and Content Note
College of Survival - Cypress Institute 1922-1980
D - East-West Center 1946-1980
Ecology Committee - Energy 1948-1978
Engel, Mark - Fein, Lou (Peace Gaming, Computer) 1946-1980
Ferber, Andrew - Giudicelli, Pierre 1946-1979
Glassman, Richard - Hall, Margaret I. n.d. 1946-1979
Hamburg, David, M.D. - Higgs, Peter L. 1946-1979
Hillman, James - Institute for the Righteous Acts n.d. 1946-1979
International Community College - Jay, Bob n.d. 1947-1980
Jennings, Roger - Kealakekua Bay Trip 1947-1980
Keeney, Bradford P. - Laing, R. D. ca. 1940-1980
Lambert, William W. - Lewin, Kurt 1947-1980
Licklider, J.C.R. - Lyons, Jeanne A. 1946-1979
M - May, Rollo n.d. 1946-1978
McAndrews, Bob - Metaphor and Metaphysics 1946-1980
Metraux, Rhoda - Mysbergh, James H. 1946-1979
N - Norris, Nancy Ellen 1946-1977
North, Robert C. - Olsen's Electronics 1950-1978
O'Malley, Patricia - Perry, John 1946-1980
Peters, Carl, M.D. - Pristas, P. J. 1946-1980
Prochaska, Sister Helen - Raxlen, Bernard, M.D. 1947-1980
Redler, Leon, M.D. - Regents V 1965-1980
Regents (Quasi-Regents) - Reynolds, Peter C. 1949-1980
RIAS [Radio in American Sector]-Berlin - Royaumont, October 10-13, 1975 1939-1978
Rubenstein, David - Scurlock, Jim 1946-1980
Seagel, Ernest M., Lee & Laurence - South Beach, March 3-4, 1977 1946-1979
Spain - Syz, Hans 1946-1980
T - Voss, Gilbert L. n.d. 1946-1980
W - Wenner-Gren, "Cultural Frames", Aug-Sept 1977 1947-1980
Werner, Fred H. - Zurich 1946-1980
Burg Wartenstein 1968
Wenner-Gren Conference - Midtown Manhattan Conference 1969
Series 2 Writings 1920-1986
Series Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
Subseries 2.1 Complete Article File [CAF] 1923-1986
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
A
B - Ch
Ch - Cre
Cu - D
E - Fo
Fro - Lea
Let - Mel
Mem - Met
Mi - Ob
Old - Pi
Pl - Ps
Rad - Rit
Rol - Soc
Som - St
Sui - Tow
Tr - Z & Minor publications
Subseries 2.2 Book Manuscripts ca. 1950-1980
The Distribution of Mind, incomplete manuscript ca. 1967
Typescript photocopies
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity ca. 1979
Manuscript pages
Manuscript
Steps to an Ecology of Mind ca. 1972-1979
Title page and contents, French edition 1975
Preface, pg. 406-537, French edition 1975
Ballantine, pgs. 1-536, figures 1973
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred ca. 1978-1980
Manuscript
Oversize holograph pages
Typescripts, transcriptions of tapes
Typescripts, drafts
Typescripts, drafts, articles
Typescripts, drafts, correspondence
Design copy, manuscript with corrections
Subseries 2.3 Octopus & Cetacean Observation materials 1925-1985
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
Octopus Observations - Whaler's Cove Observations 1961-1965
Oceanic Institute Reprints - Observaions at Essex Cove 1965-1966
Observations of Training Tanks - Photos, Virgin Islands 1965-1966
Virgin Islands Dolphins - Observation Notebook 1964-1967
Subseries 2.4 Notebooks 1943-1977
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
#0-10D 1943 - September 1949
#11-20 October 1949 - ca. 1954
#21-30 ca. 1954 - 1963
#31-41 1964 - 1969
#42-53 1969 - June 1974
#54-66 1974 - 1977
Subseries 2.5 Bibliography of Published Articles & Files 1925-1985
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
1923-1947
1949-1959
1960-1974
1975-1986
Minor published articles 1975-1986
#5 "Music in New Guinea" - The Eagle, v.48:214 [pgs. 158-170] 1935
#6 "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis" [pgs. 178-183] Dec. 1935
#9 "Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Material" v.8:1 - Reprint from Philosophy of Science Jan. 1941
#11 "IV. The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis and Culture" v.48:4 - Reprint from Psychological Review July 1941
#14 "Social Planning and the Concept of 'Deutero-Learning'" - Reprint from Science, Philosophy, and Religion, 2nd Symposium 1942
#18 "Chapter V, Morale and National Character" - From Society for Psychological Studies of Social Issues, pg. 71-91 1942
#20 "An Analysis of the Nazi Film Hitlerjunge Quex" n.d.
#26 "Section of Anthropology", Ser.II, v.6:4 - Reprinted from Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences Jan. 24, 1944
#30 "The Pattern of an Armaments Race; An Anthropological Approach", pt.1, v.2:5-8 - Reprint from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1946
#32 "Physical Thinking and Social Problems" - Reprint from Science v.103:2686 June 21, 1946
#33 "From One Social Scientist to Another", v.34:4 - Reprint from American Scientist 1946
#35 "Sex and Culture", v.47:Art 5 - Reprint from The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences May 1947
#42 "Applied Metalinguistics and International Relations" by Henry Lee Smith, Jr., v.10:1 - Reprint from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Autumn 1952
#43 "Changes in Human Relationships and Individual Psychology' - Typescript [pgs.1-27] n.d.
#45 "Metalogue: Why do Frenchmen?", v.10:2 - Reprint from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 1953
#46 "Metalogue: About Games and Being Serious", [pgs. 213-217] - Reprint from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics n.d.
#48A "Why a Swan? - a Metalogue", [pgs. 23-26] - Reprint from Dance as Communication: Impulse 1954
#53 "Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia" - Reprint from Behavioral Science, v.1:4 October 1956
#55 "Editorial Notes - Languages and Psychotherapy - Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's Last Project" - Reprint from Psychiatry, v.21:1 Feb. 1958
#57 "Chapter 2 - Schizophrenic Distortions of Communications - Moderator: Gregory Bateson" - Photocopy from Sea Island Conference: Psychotherapy of Chronic Scizophrenic Patients n.d.
#61 "Cultural Problems Posed by a Study of Schizophrenic Process" - Reprint from Schizophrenia 1959
#62 "The New Conceptual Frames for Behavioral Research" - Reprint from Proceedings of the 6th Annual Psychiatric Institute Sept. 17, 1958
#63 "Minimal Requirements for a Therapy of Schizophrenia" - Reprint from A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry v.2 May 1960
#64 "Specific Approaches and Clinical Implications" - Reprint from Chronic Schizophrenia: Explorations 1960
#67 "Perceval's Narrative: a Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832" 1961
#68 "Exchange of information about Patterns of Human Behavior" - Reprint from Information Storage and Neural Control 1963
#69 "Communication Theories in Relation to the Etiology of the Neuroses" - Reprint from The Etiology of the Neuroses 1966
#71A "A Social Scientist Views the Emotions" - Reprint from Expression of the Emotions in Man n.d.
#72 "Some Varieties of Pathogenic Organization", v.42 - typescript and reprint from Disorders of Communication 1964
#73 "The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution", v.17:4 - Reprint from Evolution Dec. 24, 1963
#75 "On the Logical Categories of Learning and Communication" n.d.
#76 "Some 19th Century Problems of Evolution" - typescript n.d.
#77 "Metalogue: What is an Instinct?" - typescript - Reprint from Approaches to Animal Communication n.d.
#78 "Cybernetic Explanation" - typescript n.d.
#82 "The Distribution of Mind", draft - Photocopy of typescript w/corrections n.d.
#83 "Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation" n.d.
Bali: The Value System of a Steady State - Reprint from Social Structure; Studies presented to A.R. Radcliffe-Brown 1949
Review of "The Theory of Human Culture", James Feibleman - Review in Political Science Quarterly, v.62:3 Sept. 1947
Review of "Primate Ethology", Desmond Morris - Reprint from American Anthropologist, v.70:5 October 1968
Exhibit II "The Cetacean Community in Whaler's Cove - Sea Life Park" - Excerpt from draft of report of work done under Career Development Award (K3-NH-21, 931) n.d.
Afterword - "Dear John, When you first suggested this volume and undertook to put it together..." n.d.
"Dear Cathy" 1969 1977
"Schizophrenic Communication: A Theoretical Discussion and a Proposal for Research" ca. 1954
"Problems in Cetacean & Other Mammalian Communication" - Reprints from Whales Dolphins and Porpoises, K. Norris n.d. 1966
"A Re-examination of 'Bateson's Rule'" - Reprint from Journal of Genetics, v.60:3 Sept. 1971
"Redundancy and Coding" - Reprint from Animal Communication n.d.
"Protecting the Future: Aiding the Work of Scientists is believed best Safeguard" - Letters to the Times, New York Times Dec. 8, 1946
"Prayer Breakfast" Jan.8, 1976
"Pidgin English and Cross-Cultural Communication" - Reprint from Transactions of the New York Academy of Science, Ser.II, v.6:4 Jan 24, 1944
"On Empty-Headness Among Biologists and State Boards of Education" - Photocopy from Steps to an Ecology of Mind, pg.343-345 n.d.
Discussion: The Science of Decency - Reprint from Philosophy of Science, v.10:2 April 1943
Discussion of "Approaches to Family Therapy" n.d.
"Epilogue: The Growth of Paradigms for Psychiatry" - Reprint from Communication and Social Interaction 1977
"Form, Substance and Difference" - Reprint from General Semantics Bulletin, no.37 1970
"Metalogue: Daddy, How Much do You Know?" - Reprint from ETC: A Review of General Semantics, v.10:4 Summer 1953
"Metalogues: Why Do Frenchmen?" - Reprint from ETC: A Review of General Semantics, v.10:2 Winter 1953
"The Message of Reinforcement" - Reprint from Language Behavior n.d.
"Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Material" - Reprint from Philosophy of Science, v.8:1 January 1941
"Communication in Occupational Therapy"- Reprint from American Journal of Occupational Therapy 1956
"The Cybernetics of 'Self': A Theory of Alcoholism" - Reprint from Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes February 1971
"Social Structure of the Iatmul People of the Sepik River" - Reprint from Oceania, v.2:3 March 1932
"Some Components of Socialization for Trance" - Reprint from Ethos, v.3:2 Summer 1975
"Structure and Process in Social Relations" - Reprint from Psychiatry: Journal for the Operational Statement of Interpersonal Relations, v.12:2 May 1949
"Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art" - Reprint from Primitive Art and Society n.d.
"Sex and Behavior" - Revised transcript of talk to 2nd Conference on Sex and Behavior, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, California June 1962
"Principles of Morale Building" - Journal of Educational Sociology, pgs. 206-220 Dec. 1941
"Towards a theory of Cultural Coherence: Comment" - Anthropological Quarterly, v.51:1, pgs. 77-78 Jan. 1978
"Influence of Atomic Bomb on Indirect Methods of Warfare" - Photocopy of letter to General Donovan Aug. 18, 1945
"Difference, Double Description and the Interactive Designation of Self" - Photocopy from Studies in Symbolism and Cultural Communications 1982
"Metalogue: Gregory Bateson, Paul Ryan" n.d.
"Statement on problems which will confront the proposed Office of Environmental Quality in Government and an Environmental Center at the University of Hawaii" 1970 photocopy - from Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Series 3 Related materials 1946-1980
Interview with Milton H. Erickson 1945
John Proctor transcripts & notes 1950
Dr. Bateson lecture notes July 1955
The Death of a Mongoose, a poem [G. Bateson?] n.d.
Our Own Metaphor, by M.C. Bateson, draft no. 15, typescript photocopy n.d.
Wenner-Gren Symposium on Restructuring the Ecology of a Great City Oct. 30, 1970
"OM" Conference on G. Spencer Brown, transcript photocopy, notes by Anne Dale March 1973
Princeton Conference I-IV, transcript Dec. 1969
"Living Systems" - examination for Bateson's course n.d.
Session with Jenny O'Connor, English psychic who channeled "The Nine", Esalen Institute, unedited transcript & notes Feb. 7, 1979
"Ecology of Mind" lecture course, Fall 1976, transcript 1976
Rockefeller Project papers - materials for a report and proposal to continue project begun 9/1952 ca. 1954
Bateson Project - "post-double-bind", David Lipset, notes, 4 pgs typescript, carbon ca. 1960-1980
Ruth Fulton Benedict: A Memorial, 1 copy Nov. 4, 1948
University of Hawaii Bulletin, Catalog 1970-71 1970-1971
Article & photos in "Balinese Character" from Popular Photography, v.78:2 Feb. 1976
International Committee on Urgent Anthropological Research in New Guinea: Bulletin no.1 ca. 1961
Sepik District Anthropological Bibliography, Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National Unniversity 1963
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory: 25th year commemorative edition - 25 years in Pictures 1977
G. Bateson's telephone & address books 1964-1980
Marginalia (Writings by Others - photocopies of pages from books which the family retained or were sold as part of the William Batson Library and four papers) 1946-1980
Articles and books about Gregory Bateson - an incomplete list 1946-1980
#1-38 1937-1983
#39-70 1937-1983
Notes and fragments ca. 1957-1980
"Teleological Mechanisms", by Frank, Hutchinson, Livingston, McCulloch, Wiener, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v.50:4, pgs. 187-278, reprint 1948
Cards 1950-1972
References for books & articles ca. 1950
Addresses & phone numbers 1970
Library cards for 'traveling book collection' taken by Bateson around the world for use by students on International Honors Program Trip 1971-1972
Wenner-Gren Conference, July 1968 1967-1968
Correspondence
"Realities" Conference, January 1978 1977-1978
Source Book I
Source Book II
Source Book III
Family photographs
Animal photographs taken by Bateson
Color snapshots of Bateson & family
Bateson portrait - b/w photo of drawing done by R.B. Dilts 1978
Microscope, lens and carrying case