Richard S. Robin, Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce
The source of the R and L numbers used throughout this viewer. Every item here is keyed to its Robin number.
Bibliography
The transcriptions in this viewer are machine-assisted drafts, still under correction. For the authoritative scholarly editions and the reference apparatus that situates each manuscript, the works below are where to go. Where a manuscript has a critical edition of its own, it is listed under Editions of individual manuscripts.
Standard editions & finding aids
Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss & Arthur W. Burks (eds.), Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
Peirce Edition Project (eds.), Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition
Nathan Houser & Christian Kloesel (eds.), The Essential Peirce
Carolyn Eisele (ed.), The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce
The detailed HOLLIS for Archival Discovery finding aid gives the full arrangement of the ~100,000 pages and links to digitized documents.
Editions of individual manuscripts
R L75The Carnegie Institution application (1902)
Joseph Ransdell, MS L75: Logic, Regarded as Semeiotic (The Carnegie Application of 1902), Version 1 — a topical reconstruction that redistributes the six draft versions across Peirce's 36 proposed memoirs.
Carolyn Eisele (ed.), "Parts of Carnegie Application (L 75)," in The New Elements of Mathematics, vol. 4, pp. 13–73.
Commens catalogue entry.
Both editions treat the application memoir. The recommendation letters and administrative correspondence in the folder — including William James's letter urging Peirce's case as "one for favorable treatment" — are transcribed here as searchable text.
Carolyn Eisele (ed.), "Parts of Carnegie Application (L 75)," in The New Elements of Mathematics, vol. 4, pp. 13–73.
Commens catalogue entry.
Both editions treat the application memoir. The recommendation letters and administrative correspondence in the folder — including William James's letter urging Peirce's case as "one for favorable treatment" — are transcribed here as searchable text.
Other bibliographies
Kenneth Laine Ketner et al., A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles Sanders Peirce
The counterpart to Robin: where the Robin catalogue covers the manuscripts, Ketner covers everything Peirce published, with a bibliography of secondary studies through 1984.