Oxford Made Me

--- by JLS
----- for the GC

THERE IS NO MENTION in "Finding Aid to the H. Paul Grice Papers", (c) 2010 The Regents of the University of California", typically, that Grice taught at St. John's college for 30 years. He is referred to (I love Berkeley!) as a Professor Emeritus of Oxford (which he wasn't). There is no mention either to his scholarship with Corpus Christi (prior to St. John's) or Merton (also prior to St. John's).

---- Yet, the papers contain such references: a typescript (a rare piece since Grice could not type) contains the Harborne address, in Staffordshire, so this has to be traced back to his days at Corpus. That would be 1937.

--- Etc.

-- I have been compiling a name-index to the Papers. I refer to it as the "Grice Archive", and would include in it all that Grice got published elsehwere.

Take:

"Oxford" as a proper name (name index).

"Oxford made me".

How many essays by Grice feature "Oxford" in the very title? How many refer to Oxford, or the Oxonians, etc.? Zillions, if I may be hyperbolic.

For Oxford had made him, and he never had left it.