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