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A notice of the W.E.A. classes that states the title, time, location, and name of the tutor for each of the 13 classes. Popper's class was scheduled on Tuesdays.

A report to the W.E.A. tutorial class committee on Monday 15 May 1939, according to which the attendances for Popper's class is estimated as 40.

A report to the W.E.A. executive meeting on Friday 19 May 1939, in which Popper was listed as one of the suggested lecturers to lecture at Paparua Prison.

A letter from Popper to the secretary of the W.E.A, dated 4 March 1939, in response to KP8080. Popper said he was pleased to be invited to teach philosophy for the W.E.A.

A letter from the W.E.A. to Popper, dated 1 March 1939, telling him that he was recommended to teach a course for W.E.A.'s Christchurch classes in 1939.

A rates notice from Heathcote County Council, addressed to Hennie Popper, for the sum of just under 13 pounds.

Prior's review of G.H. Duggan's book Evolution and philosophy, published in NZ Listener on 9 December 1949, p. 17. This review would trigger a long debate in NZ Listener, entitled "How things began".

A notice of the Royal Society of New Zealand's "Matter and Life" lecture series held at Canterbury University College. Popper's "Mechanism and Vitalism" was scheduled to be the final lecture.

A photograph of Prior's colleague Michael Shorter. Michael Shorter joined the Philosophy Department when Prior took his sabbatical year in 1956.

Photographs of K. Popper's student and Arthur Prior's colleague in Manchester, Czesław Lejewski. Lejewski (1913-2001) was a Polish philosopher and logician, who grew out of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic. He studied under Jan Łukasiewicz in pre-WWII…