This page lists the main archival holdings relating to the Quartet, along with other archives that contain relevant papers. If you want to know about the lecture schedule the Quartet enjoyed while at Oxford, you will find this, and information about academic life at Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, in the Oxford Gazette. You can find Anscombe, Foot and Murdoch offering classes from 1948 onwards.
The British Society for the History of Philosophy offers scholarship activity awards (for predoctoral and doctoral students, and established scholars) which could be used to fund archival research trips.
Please let us know if you discover relevant material in other archives, or have any other information we can share here.
Anscombe
The Anscombe Archive is at Collegium Institute, Pennsylvania, USA. This is an enormous collection, mostly of philosophical material, much of which is unpublished. Collection highlights include: numerous notebooks of unpublished philosophical reflections; an extensive postcard-correspondence with Anthony Kenny.
You can find the full catalogue here. Details of how to arrange a visit to the archive are here, along with details of a scanning service and information about travel grants.
Additional archival material relating to Anscombe is held at the following archives:
- Somerville College, Oxford (including annual reports to the MSRF Committee, 1947-1952)
- St Hugh’s College, Oxford
- Newnham College, Cambridge
- Trinity College, Cambridge (minutes of the Moral Sciences Club)
- Von Wright & Wittgenstein Archives, Helsinki (correspondence in the von Wright materials and the Wittgenstein materials)
- Les Archives de Raymond Klibansky, Deutsches Literaturarchiv (DLA) Marbach (Anscombe is mentioned in Labowsky’s letters to Raymond Klibansky)
- Balliol College, Oxford (the R. M. Hare papers contains correspondence relating to Anscombe’s ‘Does Oxford Moral Philosophy Corrupt the Youth’
Foot 
Foot is thought to have destroyed most of her unpublished philosophical writing and journals. The Somerville College Archive, Oxford University, UK, holds a small but valuable collection. Highlights include: a filofax on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations; two letters from Anscombe on Aquinas; letter to Anscombe with notes on MS for Intention; talks from Foot’s memorial service; correspondence between Foot and her mother during WWII.
Contact details for the archivists are here. Write to enquire about the holdings and to arrange a visit.
Additional archival material relating to Foot is held at the following archives:
- Iris Murdoch Archive, Kingston School of Art
- Anscombe Archive, Collegium Institute
Midgley 
The Mary & Geoff Midgley Special Collection is at Durham University, UK. This is a large collection containing a mix of personal and philosophical material, some of which is unpublished. Collection highlights include: an unpublished novel; an unfinished doctoral thesis on Plotinus.
You can find the full catalogue here. Inquiries about the collection and visiting the archive are here.
Additional archival material relating to Midgley is held at the following archives:
- Iris Murdoch Archive, Kingston School of Arts
Murdoch
The Iris Murdoch Archive is at Kingston School of Arts, UK. This is a massive collection containing a mix of personal and philosophical material, much of which is unpublished. Contained within the Murdoch Archive is the Conradi Archive – materials collected by Peter Conradi while conducting research for his monumental Iris Murdoch: A Life (here and here). Collection highlights include: a collection of letters to Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch’s collection of books (many of which are annotated), Iris Murdoch’s Journals.
You can find the full catalogue here and here — contact the archivist for help navigating the material and to arrange a visit to the archive.
Additional archival material relating to Murdoch is held at the following archives:
- Midgley Special Collection, Durham
- Somerville College, Oxford
- Newnham College, Cambridge
- St Anne’s College, Oxford
- Trinity College, Cambridge (minutes of the Moral Sciences Club)
- Dorothy Emmet Archive, Lucy Cavendish College Library, Cambridge