The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of ManchesterA lost collection of nearly 150 letters from the codebreaker Alan Turing has been uncovered in an old filing cabinet at the University of Manchester. Turing was deputy director of the university’s computing laboratory from 1948, after his heroic wartime codebreaking at Bletchley Park. “When I first found it I initially thought: ‘That can’t be what I think it is,’ but a quick inspection showed it was a file of old letters and correspondence by Alan Turing,” he said. Archive material relating to Turing is extremely scarce, so having some of his academic correspondence is a welcome and important addition to our collection. “There is very little in the way of personal correspondence, and no letters from Turing family members.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2017 10:18 UTC