Applications and related correspondence for positions in the Programming Research Group as Departmental Research Assistant and/or Programmer (not indexed).

Requests to join or work with the Programming Research Group, either on a permanent or part-time basis or as a visiting fellow. Some professional exchanges are included.

Requests to visit Strachey and the Programming Research Group, from academics and industrialists in Britain and abroad. Includes copy of Strachey's letter to The Observer, 1973, in response to an article by E.F. Schumacher regarding optimum size of machines and of organisations.

Requests to study at Oxford University or in Programming Research Group (not indexed). Arrangements for appointments, suggestions for alternative courses at other universities. In chronological order.

Correspondence and papers regarding Strachey's external examining for the B.Sc. course in Computer Science, University of Warwick. Includes copies of proposed examination papers, Strachey's comments on the papers and his own notes, correspondence regarding arrangements for Examiners' Board meetings, etc.

Correspondence and papers regarding loan of films from Bell Telephone Laboratories, USA for showing at the Computer Film Festival, 15 March 1968, and at talk to the engineering group in Oxford (see MS. Eng. misc. b. 296/G.23 for Strachey's notes for this talk).

Notes and minor correspondence regarding the possible purchase of a new computer by Oxford University.

Papers and notes regarding furnishings and estimated expenditure for the house at 45 Banbury Road, Oxford, occupied by the Programming Research Group. Correspondence with L. Fox and with Oxford University Chest regarding allocation of expenditure.

Miscellaneous notes, invoices and correspondence regarding minor expenses of the Programming Research Group as passed to Oxford University Chest for payment from the Science Research Council grant (not indexed).

Letter offering Fellowship of the College, 29 July 1966. Miscellaneous correspondence regarding college business.

Duplicated papers regarding requirement of a new college; 7-page typescript of Strachey's comments on the brief.

Committee papers, all with Strachey's annotations.

Manuscript and typescript lists of files maintained by the Programming Research Group, and of Strachey's own files. Note: Most of the headings listed in this folder appear as catalogue entries, but some have not survived.