Guide to the Bateson Family Papers
UCSC OAC Unit
University of California, Santa Cruz
2008
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz 95064
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
Note
Finding aid updated in 2018
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Bateson Family papers
creator:
Bateson family
Identifier/Call Number: MS.113
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
4 document boxes, 1 oversize portfolio
Date (inclusive): circa 1835-1942
Date (bulk): 1900-1930
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.
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights for this collection reside with the University of California. Copyright
resides with Bateson's heirs, and is managed by the Bateson Idea Group (BIG)
(batesonideagroup.org). UCSC Special Collections and Archives requires written permission
from the copyright holder to allow reproduction of this material, including photography in
the reading room. Permission must be sent to speccoll@library.ucsc.edu in advance. For more
information on copyright or to order a reproduction, please visit
guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/reproduction-publication.
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).
Related Finding Aids
MS 98 Gregory Bateson Papers
MS 206 Mark Engels Papers MS Coll 2
Bateson Family Papers, American Philosophical Society
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bateson, William, 1861-1926
Bateson family
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980
box-folder 1:1
Anna Aiken Bateson 15727
ca. 1835-1880
Physical Description: 1
folders
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 1:1
Scrapbook 15728
ca. 1835-1880
box-folder 1:2, 4:5-6
William Bateson 15722
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 15726
undated ca. 1913-1926
box-folder 4:5
Portrait photograph, Wm. Bateson 15725
ca. 1900-1926
box-folder 4:5
Negative of Wm. Bateson 15724
ca. 1900-1926
box-folder 4:6
Snapshots from the Russian Steppes taken during the 1886-1887 trip (12, B/W,
3x5)
15723
ca. 1886-1887
box-folder 1:3-4, 4:7
Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson 15718
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 15721
undated ca. 1905-1940
box-folder 1:4
Address Book 1923 15720
ca. 1923-1942
box-folder 4:7
Photographs (13, B/W, 5x7) taken or collected during South American trip to
Manaos, Brazil
15719
ca. 1930-1939
box-folder 2:1-6
John Bateson 15712
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 15717
Undated ca. 1905-1906
box-folder 2:3
"Caxton" Penny Exercise Book 15716
August 1907
box-folder 2:4
"Notes on plants collected round Charter House for the Poole Prize, Summer
Quarter, 1916"
15715
1916
box-folder 2:5
"Answers to Chemistry Papers" 15714
1917-1918
box-folder 2:6
"Officers' Record of Services, Army Book" 15713
ca. 1917-1918
box-folder 2:7-9, 3:1-8, 4:8-10, 5:1
Martin Bateson 15699
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) 15711
ca. 1905-1910
box-folder 2:9
"The Blue Bell Exercise Book" 15710
ca. 1905-1910
box-folder 3:1
Album - Photographic competition, St. Faith's, Brownie Division 15709
July 1913
box-folder 3:2
"Rugby School Book, Summer Term" 15708
1917
box-folder 3:3
"Ideal" Royal Flying Corps - loose leaf notebook 15707
ca. 1918-1920
box-folder 3:4
Passports 15706
1920-1921
box-folder 3:5
Correspondence (2) 15705
1921
box-folder 3:6
Notebooks, Pocket Diaries 15704
ca. 1919-1922
box-folder 3:7
Barclays Bank Ltd. account book 15703
1919-1922
box-folder 3:8, 4:10
Misc. ephemera - empty rec'd envelopes, stationary, empty
notebooks
15702
undated
box-folder Portfolio 1
University of Cambridge, St. John's College BA Certificate, Royal Air Force
Appoinment
15701
1918 1921
box-folder 4:8-9
Snapshots taken during trip(s) to Ireland 15700
ca. 1915-1922
box-folder 4:1-4
Gregory Bateson 15694
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 15698
1912
box-folder 4:2
"Natural History Notes, April 15, 1916 - August 15, 1918" 15697
1916-1918
box-folder 4:3
Correspondence 15696
undated ca. 1922-1936
box-folder 4:4
Notes on New Guinea 15695
ca. 1922-1925