Janus: The Papers of Professor Joan Violet Robinson

King's/PP/JVR/7 contains:
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25	Letter from All India Radio to Joan Robinson
26	Letter from Sir Roy George Douglas Allen to Joan Robinson
27	Corrrespondence between Joan Robinson and Allen & Unwin, Publishers
28	Letter from Gar Alperowitz to Joan Robinson
29	Letter from Leonard Alston to Joan Robinson
30	Correspondence from Ernest Raik Riddall Altounyan to Joan Robinson
31	Letter from K. Amoaka-Atta to Joan Robinson
32	Correspondence from the Free University of Amsterdam (VESVU) to Joan Robinson
33	Letter from Frederick Woodley Anderson to Joan Robinson
34	Declaration of Trust by the Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute
35	Letter from George Anovil to Joan Robinson
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The Papers of Professor Joan Violet Robinson

Title	Correspondence from Ernest Raik Riddall Altounyan to Joan Robinson
Reference	JVR/7/30
Creator	Altounyan, Ernest Raik Riddall, M.D. (1889-1962), surgeon and poet
Covering Dates	1936–1961 (1936-40 and 1961.)
Extent and Medium	5 envelopes; paper

Content and context

Ernest Raik Riddall Altounyan, M.D., of Aleppo, Cambridge and Coniston, matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1924.

This sub-series comprises five files, four containing correspondence and the fifth consisting of articles by Ernest Altounyan. The sub-series contains about 80 letters in all and about 100,000 words of text discussing the psychological lives of Ernest Altounyan and Joan Robinson, and touching frequently on literature, friends, politics, surgery and T.E. Lawrence.

This sub-series also contains 1 letter to Joan Robinson from Ernest Altyounyan's daughter, Brigit, and 1 letter to Ernest Altounyan from Margaret Dalgliesh (both 1937); a letter from Ernest Altounyan to Geoffrey and Doit Garratt, 1941, and a copy of an early article by Geoffrey Garratt.

King's/PP/JVR/7/30 contains:

Letters primarily concerning T.E. Lawrence, May-October 1936. 11 letters to Joan Robinson, mostly about Ernest Altounyan's poem-sequence in memory of his friend T.E. Lawrence (published as 'Ornament of Honour', Cambridge University Press, 1937).
1 envelope; paper.

May 1936-Oct. 1936

Letters from Aleppo, 1936-7. About 38 letters to Joan Robinson from Aleppo, on 119 odd pieces of paper (many of them possibly prescription forms), often written between appointments with patients. Joan Robinson has numbered the letters 1 to 42 [but numbers 25-27 and 33 are wanting].
1 envelope; paper.

June 1936-Dec. 1937

Letters from Aleppo, 1938. About 24 letters, as in envelope JVR/7/30/2. 49 leaves, numbered 43-66 by Joan Robinson.
1 envelope; paper.

1938

Later letters and Garratt material. 8 letters and the material relating to Geoffrey and Doit Garratt.
1 envelope; paper.

1939–1961

Papers by Ernest Haik Riddall Altounyan. This file comprises:. (1) Reprint of his article 'The Philosophy of Treatment' (from 'The Lancet', 16 September 1933), with autograph manuscript alterations including the substitute title 'Uniformity of Treatment' and the addition of the number I at the head; dated in manuscript, Tiberias. 1932. (2) Typescript with autograph manuscript alterations, 'II: Diversity in Treatment', Nazareth. 11 leaves. 1934. (3) Typescript with autograph manuscript alterations, 'III: Faith Healing', Nazareth. 5 leaves. 1934. (4) Typescript with autograph manuscript alterations, 'IV: A Plea for Exactitude', Jerusalem. 12 leaves. 1938. (5) Carbon of another (but very similar) typing of (4), lacking the last paragraph. 11 leaves, not widely corrected. Undated. (6) Typescript, no alterations, 'The Mechanics of Poetry'. 5 leaves. Undated. (7) Autograph manuscript commentary on Ernest Altounyan's own poems (sc. 'Ornament of Honour'). 10 leaves (19 pages text). Undated.
1 envelope; paper.