A close look at Grice's library

I agree thoroughly with Dale's hypothesis in the chapter ii, historical, to his "Theory of Meaning", online dissertation:

"So, here is a hypothesis: Grice read The Meaning of Meaning and saw that its authors saw intention-based theories as problematic while themselves offering a causal theory, and that is why he took his program to be controversial."

Dale is rightly emphasising Grice's choice of an adjective there, indeed 'controversial'.

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So, -- if we go back to Gardiner, say, we then have, as Dale notes, these two sources: Furberg, a student of Grice's, was writing on the influence of Gardiner on Austin. And Ogden and Richards were referring, albeit cursorily, to Gardiner in their influential book that SHOULD have been in Grice's library.

Oddly, when Grice was about to be elected as a Fellow of St. John's, G. Richardson confesses in his obituary for Grice at the "St John's college records", that the master of St. John's was cautious. The reason:

"He does not return library books."

-- it was reported to him from Grice's days at 'The House', Corpus Christi and perhaps Merton.