Turing papers - D Tel report
Mark Baldwin <mark-znuCwvN0N+Nhyzs96duibmhr/[email protected]> Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:32:06 -0000
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The report in today's Telegraph on the Turing papers now acquired for BP refers to 'wartime notes' and 'handwritten papers'. However, when the collection came to auction last November, the catalogue described it as almost exclusively comprising offprints of published papers. Today's news item on BP's own website confirms that this is not a collection of manuscript material, referring instead to 'offprints of sixteen of Turing's eighteen published works'. Although it would be wonderful if the collection did contain significant manuscript material, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Telegraph reporter is guilty of inaccurate reporting, even though on 22 November the same newspaper called the collection 'a set of reprints'. Mark Baldwin