Records of the Reading Research Unit Comprises correspondence and papers regarding the work of the Unit between May and July 1964 including, Letter from the Ford Foundation confirming a grant of $100 000 for one year to expand their work on the Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet, with newspaper articles Correspondence between members of the academic committee, particularly regarding the relationship between James Pitman and John Downing 'The evaluation of i.t.a - a discussion of the current experimental design and the direction of future improvements' by John Downing 'Proposal for a grant for research into the influence of the traditional orthography on the learning of English as a second language' by John Downing 1964