How Grice got to lecture on Peirce's 'general' theory of signs at Oxford, in 1947

From wiki:

"Welby and Peirce were both academic outsiders, and their approaches to language and meaning had some things in common. But most of the correspondence consists of Peirce elaborating his related theory of semiotics."

"Welby's replies did not conceal that she found Peirce hard to follow,"

-- a sentiment shared by Grice who refers to Peirce's deleme, etc., as 'crypto-technical' and prone to 'raise the improper questions' about 'meaning' --.

The wiki adds:

"But, by circulating copies of some of Peirce's letters to her, she did much to introduce Peirce to British thinkers."

Now, it may be that Grice got to Peirce also via Stevenson (whom he quotes) and whom, via Morris, can be traced back to American pragmatism and Peirce in general.

But I do prefer, also, to think, as R. E. Dale thinks, that Grice was familiar with much of what had been going on in England, via Ogden and Richards (who quote Welby) and Gardiner -- Grice's later student, Furberg, who quotes Gardiner -- is another intersting link here, also identified by Dale. (Gardiner is also quoted by Ogden/Richards, whose "Meaning of meaning" then becomes the pre-Gricean manifesto. When I write 'manifesto', I mean it controversially, in that, as Dale notes, Grice is opposing these views which were current (more-or-less) in the 'history of ideas', when he does grant that his own intention-based account may be thought of as itself 'controversial'.