Peirce Online Manuscripts, Graphics, & Letters

Harvard University's Houghton Library

Abbreviations (The Robin Catalog):

A. = autograph
MS., MSS. = manuscript(s)
n.d. = no date
n.p. = no place, i.e., of publication
p, pp. = page(s)

• Complete catalog of digitized Peirce items online at Houghton
  http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/J55UEV229XS6EAKIVDRQRSEND3YR5DBQ522L52CNSJ6KF7UI4P-55945?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=sys%3D000602456&pds_handle=GUEST
• CSP (MS 163) Studies, real curves. Entirety.
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:5110308  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/28470564
  [Topology; Real Curves; Astronomy; Archeology; Assorted Mathematical Notes]
  A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1895 (p. 45 is dated July 1895). — Mathematics, Robin Catalog
• CSP (MS 339) Logic Notebook. Entirety (1865-1909).
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:3686182  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/15255301
  LOGIC NOTEBOOK 1865-1909
  339. Logic
  A. MS., notebook, n.p., November 12, 1865-November 1, 1909. CSP kept this notebook from 1865 until his death, recording in it (and dating) many of his investigations in their first stages.... — Logic, Robin Catalog
• CSP (MS 923-923S). Entirety.
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:5110309  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/28470565
  [Ten Irreducible Conceptions and Their Combinations]
  A. MS., n.p., 1860-62, 24 pp., with a typed copy of the page dated June 8, 1862 — Metaphysics, Robin Catalog
• CSP (MS 936). Entirety.
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:5110310  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/28470566
  [Idealism, Mind and Matter, and the Principle of Continuity]
  A. MS., n.p., n.d., 3 pp. .... — Metaphysics, Robin Catalog
• CSP (MS 1537) Labyrinth. (One page. Elaborate drawing with minotaur.)
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4925549?buttons=y  ALSO  http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/26004036?buttons=y
  Same image at Houghton Library blog (simpler webpage)
  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghton/files/2011/10/MS-Am-1632-1537.jpg
  [Fragments on Games]
  A. MS., n.p., n.d., 12 pp. — Miscellanea, Robin Catalog
• CSP (MS 1538).
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:5110306  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/28470562
  [Caricatures, Doodles, Drawings, Pen Trials]
  A. MS., n.p., n.d., 60 pp. — Miscellanea, Robin Catalog
• CSP (MS 1539) Art Chirography. (Looks like entirety. Expressive script, mostly "The Raven" first two stanzas.)
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:5110307  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/28470563
  Art Chirography
  A. MS., n.p., n.d., 6 pp. — Miscellanea, Robin Catalog
• (L 337). Entirety.
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4927598  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/26170298
  Peirce, Harriet Melusina Fay (Mrs. C. S. Peirce). One letter to CSP, [1877]; six drafts from, August 28, 1870-January 23, 1876. — Peirce Correspondence, Robin Catalog
• Juliette Peirce's correspondence
  "From the extensive Charles Peirce collection, the entirety of his widow Juliette Peirce’s correspondence is now available digitally. Photographs, financial papers, pamphlets and court documents are also included." — "Newly digitized items for June," Houghton Library Blog, Tuesday, June 7th, 2011...12:56 pm. Alphabetic information has been gathered in one place here below. Also see Correspondence: Juliette | Family | Miscellaneous, Robin Catalog
  • (L485 – L516) A - Felton
    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4890711  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24825649
  • (L517 – L528) Financial Matters - Ginsheim
    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4890712  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24825650
  • (L529 – L531) Goudy - Homer
    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4890713  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24825651
  • (L532 – L535a) Hopkins - James
    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4890714  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24825652
  • (L536 – L554) Johnstone - Pinchot
    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4890715  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24825653
  • (L555 – L563) Pinchot - Shull and Shull
    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4890716  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24825654
  • (L564 – L578) Smith - Unidentified correspondents: three letter drafts from Juliette Peirce. Then Miscellaneous.
    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4890717  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24825655
• (L645). Entirety.
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:5129451  ALSO  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/30952776
  Monackjer, Nasservanji. Four letters to Ichabod Nichols, Sr., April 22, 1800-January 10, [1811]. — Correspondence: Juliette | Family | Miscellaneous, Robin Catalog
• Charles Sanders Peirce carte de visite (Photo of Peirce)
  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4879452?buttons=y  ALSO  http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/24336688?buttons=y

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Arisbe Website & PEIRCE-L Online Forum

• 'Fugitive Pages'

  MS 339D.664 (PDF) (Same page as Houghton's 339, sequence 676)	A late definition of "sign" (1909) that expresses Peirce's view of it as functioning as a surrogate
  MS 339D.663 (PDF) (Same page as Houghton's 339, sequence 675)
  A transcription of this document (PDF)

• From MS 339 page dated (on its reverse side) August 7, 1904. Peirce's schematized ninefold classification of signs.
  http://www.cspeirce.com/backgrnd/ninefold.jpg
  Supplied by Bernard Morand in a post Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign on June 8, 2006 to peirce-l. From same page as Houghton's MS 339, sequence 450, see bottom of image. (The succeeding page image, in Houghton's MS 339 sequence 451, has the date August 7, 1904, and has "240r" added in its upper right corner.)
• Three drawings of the Decad (triangular set of ten boxes) of sign classifications, supplied by Joseph Ransdell to peirce-l
  • MS799.2 (CP 2.264)
    http://www.cspeirce.com/backgrnd/backgrnd/MS799-2.jpg
    in peirce-l post "1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)" June 17, 2006. (Also at gmane.)
    The Roman numerals appear on the manuscript but were added by an editor (see the following two peirce-l posts: Vinicius Romanini June 16, 2006 "Re: representing the ten classes of signs (corrected)" (& at gmane) and Joseph Ransdell June 18, 2006 "Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)" (missing from gmane)).
  • MS540.17
    http://www.cspeirce.com/backgrnd/backgrnd/MS540-17.jpg
    in peirce-l post "2nd image of triangle of boxes (MS540.17)" June 17, 2006. (Also at gmane.)
  • MS540.27
    http://www.cspeirce.com/backgrnd/backgrnd/MS540-27.jpg
    in peirce-l post "3rd image of triangle of boxes (MS540.27)" June 17, 2006. (Also at gmane.)
  For the multiple threads discussing the decads and images, see:
  • representing the ten classes of signs (corrected) (Also at gmane)
    
  • image of original boxed triangle at CP 2.264 (Also at gmane)
    
  • a second triangle of boxes in the MS material (Also at gmane)
    
  • a third triangle of boxes in the MS material (Also at gmane)
    
  • 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) and Remarks on manuscripts (Both also at gmane which connects the two threads but seems to be missing much from the first one)
    
  • 3rd image of triangle of boxes (MS540.27) (Also at gmane)
    
  • 2nd image of triangle of boxes (MS540.17) (Also at gmane)
    
  • classes of signs (Also at gmane)
    
  One can also do a Lyris header search image of boxed triangles and searches on other titles (be sure to click "header" in Lyris peirce-l advanced search.)

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PORT

• PORT: Peirce On-line Resource Testbed Project (via the Wayback Machine)
  http://web.archive.org/web/20070730071842/http://port.cs.nmsu.edu:8080/
  Christian Kloesel, Mary Keeler, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis and later (the above link) at New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
  MS 145 (p. 19H only, largest version ~1.6mb) & samples. JPEGs.
  
  One can see more PORT images at

  Heather D. Pfeiffer's PORT mirror site http://conceptualstructures.org/PORT/	MS 145 (p. 19H only, largest version ~1.6mb) & samples (16). JPEGs.
  Two unrepaired links at the mirror site, repaired: • PORT Workshop, ICCS2005, Kassel, Germany: Added Information for the Workshop • PORT Workshop, ICCS2004, Huntsville, Alabama: Report from the Workshop
  PORT at Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos http://www.unav.es/gep/Port/	MSS 145, 460, 462, 464, & 507. Links to 75kb–100kb JPEGs. Annotations. Says the MS labeled "145" should be labeled "145s".
  PORT at Jay Zeman's site http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/jzeman/	MS 145 & MS 460. Lead to links to ~160kb JPEG images, ~20mb TIF images, & transcriptions.
  PORT at Frithjof Dau's site http://www.dr-dau.net/ms145/ms145.shtml	MS 145. 28 images (paired low- and high-resolution images of each page).
  and (via the Wayback Machine) at
  PORT at Jean-Marc Orliaguet's Computer Semiotics site http://web.archive.org/web/20041214092201/http://www.ckk.chalmers.se/people/jmo/port/	MSS 145, 460, 462, 464, 507, & samples. In DjVu format.
  Bill Tepfenhart's home page http://web.archive.org/web/20060221165813/http://peirce.monmouth.edu/%7Ebill/	MSS 145, 460, 462, 464, 507, & samples. Links to JPEG images in low and high (~1mb) resolutions. Clicking to see a low-resolution image triggers a Norton 360 warning of malware; clicking to see a high-resolution image does not.
  PORT's earlier IUPUI site location http://web.archive.org/web/20000823145222/http://accord.iupui.edu/accord/port.html	MS 145 & samples. Wayback Machine does not currently have the image link page available.

  Note from B.U.: I saved an image and, for some reason, my computer gave me the sole option of saving it as a .bmp file, but I just typed the old filename including its correct extension (which happend to be .jpeg) into the popup window and was able to save it properly.

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Miscellaneous

• Binäre Addition von Charles S. Peirce
  http://www.hu-berlin.de/pr/medien/publikationen/humboldt/201001/bilder/bildakt.jpg/view
  (Google-translated page: Binary Addition of Charles S. Peirce)
  from the Peirce Archive at the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment (Google-translated), Humboldt University.
  • Related page: "Bilder sind mehr als oberflächliche Kopien der Welt"
    http://www.hu-berlin.de/pr/medien/publikationen/humboldt/201001/forschung/201ebilder-sind-mehr-als-oberflachliche-kopien-der-welt201c
    (Google-translated page: "Pictures are more than superficial copies of the world")
    — on the founding of the Picture Act and Embodiment group.
• Image from Peirce, C. S., "Letter, Peirce to A. Marquand", dated 30 December 1886, Writings of Charles S. Peirce, v. 5, 1993, pp. 541–3. Letter describes how logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits. Via Google Preview of page 541, scroll or click through to page 543 for image of Peirce's illustration of the circuit.

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