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Correspondence with Maria Jezowa and Wlad Turski, University of Warsaw; C. M. P. Johnson, St John's College; Franciszek Studnicki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Krakow; Romuald Marczynski, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Includes correspondence with Frank Smithies, St John's College; Jeannine B. Alton, Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, Oxford; O. L. Zangwill, University of Cambridge; Brian Pippard, Cavendish Laboratory; H. A. H. Boot; Stewart Gillmor, Mullard Observatory; Colin Hines, University of Toronto; Arthur L. Norberg, University of California, Berkeley; Roland Lees and A. C. Baynham, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Great Malvern. Copy of Arthur L. Norberg, 'The History of Science and Technology Project, the Bancroft Library: fourth annual report 1976-77' as well as a summary report 1973-6.

Correspondence with M. Anvari, D. Omrani and F. S. Etessami, School of Planning and Computer Applications Tehran.

With a later photograph c. 1999 of MVW with (?) Lynn Conway. Includes correspondence with J. Morven Wilson and Vijay K. Gupta, University of St Andrews; J. H. Levin, Honeywell Inc.; N. Solntseff, University of New South Wales; Michael J. R. Shave, University of Bristol; G. K. Manacher, University of Chicago; William M. Waite, University of Colorado; David W. Barron, University of Southampton; M. H. Rogers, University of Bristol; Michael Thompson, English Electric Co. Ltd; Richard J. Orgass, General Electric Co. / Yale; Denis Manelski, Shell Oil Co.; H. Schorr, IBM; C. J. W.Mason; Richard Goodman, Editor of the Annual Review in Automatic Programming; B. Elliott and H. Lipps, CERN; J. D. Blake; J. S. Biggs; Hugh G. ApSimon, IBM; N. E. Wiseman. WISP was originally envisaged by MVW as a student exercise, and was then used to implement an EDSAC2 autocode compiler.

Correspondence with John W. Mauchly, 1967, re the evolution of the stored-program concept; Sam Fuller re the influence of Project Whirlwind on microprogramming; Walter F. Bauer, Informatics Inc.; Brian Randell, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Stanley Gill, PA Management Consultants Ltd; Jane M. Pugh, Science Museum; J. E. Larter, Scientific Periodicals Library Cambridge; David Rees, University of Exeter; B. S. Swann, PSI London; B. E. Carpenter, Massey University, Palmerston North NZ (in his reply MVW gives his candid opinion of Turing); Tom Gold, Cornell University; Stephen J. Bacon, ICL; John Pinkerton, ICL; Arthur W. Burks, University of Michigan; J. H. Wilkinson, National Physical Laboratory; Donald E. Knuth, Stanford; Tom Kilburn, University of Manchester; Jack Minker, University of Maryland; S. H. Lavington, University of Manchester; Peter Naur (enclosing draft paper 'Impressions of the early days of programming'); Andrzej Blikle, Polish Academy of Sciences; C. A. R. Hoare, Oxford Programming Research Group; Nick Metropolis, Los Alamos; Samuel H. Fuller, Carnegie Mellon University.

Copies of most of the articles are held elsewhere in the collection. Includes correspondence with G. Parr, Editor of Electrical Engineering, 1946-8; B. M. Adkins, Editor of the Royal Naval Scientific Service Journal, 1948-50; R. J. L. Kingsford, Secretary of CUP, 1948; H. R. Lang, Editor of the Journal of Scientific Instruments, 1949; the Editors of Nature, 1949; Edith Norris and others, MTAC, 1949-55; J, Dunford Smith, Editor of Distribution of Electricity, 1949; the Editors of the Cambridge Review, 1949; W. O. Skeat, Editor of British Science News, 1949; P. E. Morgan, Editor of British Science News, 1950; B. V. Bowden of Ferranti Ltd, 1951; H. Wilson Harris, Editor, and Brian Inglis, Associate Editor of The Spectator, 1951-5; A. M. Turing, 1953 seeking permission to refer to his article in Mind; William E. Dick, Editor of Discovery, 1952-3; Claude Shannon and John McCarthy, Editors of Automata Studies, 1953; E. K. Gannett, Editor of Proceedings of the IRE, 1953; Irving Kristol, Editor of Encounter, 1955; the Editors of Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1956; the Editors of Mathematical Tables, 1957; R. H. Macmillan, University College of Swansea, 1959-60; E. G. Semler, Editor of Automation Progress, 1960; Harold Nockolds and L. H. Leslie-Smith, The Times, 1960; R. R. O. Skelton, Assistant Editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1960; Pearce G. Wright, Electronics Weekly, 1960; Louis Fein, 1957. Drafts/proofs of papers 'Can Machines Think?', 'A note on the use of automatic adjustment of strip width in quadrature', 'Mechanical translation', 'The Edsac', 'Solution of linear, algebraic and differential equations by the long division algorithm', 'Should computer services be centralised or decentralised?', 'Early electronic computer development in Britain', 'Data transmission', 'Self-repairing computers'.

Copies of some articles are held elsewhere in the collection. Includes correspondence with R. R. O. Skelton, Assistant Editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1961-5; the Editors of Nature, 1961; P. J. R. Harding, The Times, 1961; Howard E. Tomkins, Editor of IRE Transactions, 1961; Arthur A. Welch, Staff Editor at the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 1961; Nigel Calder, Science Editor and later Editor of New Scientist, 1961-5; D. Fairs, Sub-editor at Heywood and Co., 1961; Alan J. Perlis, Editor of the Communications of the ACM, 1961; Evan Herbert, Associate Editor of International Science and Technology, 1961; N. D. Watts, Editor of Process Control and Automation, 1961; C. Warner, Secretary to the Awards Committee of the Electronic Engineering Association, 1962; J. L. Short, Senior Sub-Editor of Pergamon Press, publishers of the Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 1962; R. M. Fano; Norman R. Scott, Editor of Transactions on Electronic Computers, 1965; Roger Neetham, Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, Information and Control, 1965-6; David Drummond, Head of Editorial Services at Esso, 1966-7. Drafts/proofs of papers 'Numerical analysis' (for Chambers's), 'A world dominated by computers?' (for New Scientist), 'The digital computer in the drawing office', 'Constraint-type statements in programming languages' (for Communications of the ACM), 'the coming of multiple-access computers' (for the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society), 'The World in the 1990s' (by Lord Ritchie-Calder for the Esso volume), 'The computer outlook in the 1990s' (for the Esso volume), 'The computer revolution'.

Copies of some articles are held elsewhere in the collection. Includes correspondence with Bernard Taylor, Editor of the Long Range Planning Journal, Pergamon Press, 1968; William J. Rolph, Associate Editor of Automation, 1969; A. N. Kemmer, Editor of Eureka, 1970; Harry D. Husley, Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, 1970; Richard G. Mills, First National City Bank, 1970; S. S. Husson, IBM, 1970; Peter Hammersley, Editor of the Computer Journal, 1972; Richard A. Rink, McMaster University, 1972; Brian Randell, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1972; representatives of Springer-Verlag, 1972; William S. Dorn and Elliott I. Organick, Editors of Computing Surveys, 1972; Anthony Ralston, Editor of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 1972-4; Harry Whitfield, University of Edinburgh, 1972; I. Potter, Project Trenchard, Salisbury Barracks, 1972; Earl E. Swartzlander Jr, Editor of Computer Design: historical papers, 1972; Nicholas Zvegintzov, Rupert WV, 1973; Peter J. Denning, Purdue University, 1973; G. A. Butlin, University of Leicester, 1973; D. Davies, Editor of Nature, 1975; Philip B. Jordain, Editor of Condensed Computer Encyclopedia), 1975; J. C. Hipwell, Editor of Computer Weekly, 1976; J. C. Cooper, Managing Editor, and M. D. Bayman, Features Editor of Electronics and Power, 1979; Robert L. Gordon, Prime Computers, 1979; True Seaborn, Editor of Computer Magazine, 1979-80; William M. Waite, Editor of Operating Systems Review, 1979-80; Brian Randell, Annals of the History of Computing, 1980; Yoshio Nishimura, Editor of Nikkei Electronics, 1980. Drafts/proofs of papers 'Slave memories and segmentation', 'Notes on the status of MULTICS in October 1970', 'A study of data-organisation for a general-purpose programming language', 'The EDSAC', 'Ultrasonic memory', 'Early Digital Computers from Harvard Mark I to the UNIVAC' and 'Charles Babbage', 'Differential Analyser' (the last five for the Encyclopedia of Computer Science), 'Time-sharing' (for Condensed Computer Encyclopedia), 'A new hardware capability architecture' (for Operating Systems Review), obituary notice for John W. Mauchly (for Nature).

Includes correspondence with Harry Whitfield, University of Edinburgh; Robert R. Fenichel, MIT; David Hartley; Carlos Christensen, Massachusetts Computer Associates Inc.; R. Fabry; Anthony G. Oettinger, Harvard; D. J. Howarth, Institute of Computer Science.

MVW served as external examiner at the University of Lagos. Correspondence with O. J. Fagembi, A. B. Oke and L. E. Stock, University of Lagos; S. Falaki, Eric G. Manning, University of Waterloo, Ontario.