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Copy of Letter from Ruth Benedict to Dr. Waldo G. Leland, October 23, 1946
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written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (23 October 1946) , 1 page(s)
Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to Dr. Waldo G. Leland, American Council of Learned Societies, discusses a [Franz] Boas manuscript that translates Chehalis folktales. Dated October 23, 1946.
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (23 October 1946) , 1 page(s)
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Copy of Letter from Ruth Benedict to E. Adamson Hoebel, February 10, 1943
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written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (10 February 1943) , 1 page(s)
Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to E. Adamson Hoebel encloses a list of Franz Boas' finished linguistic manuscripts (not attached) and says the Kwakiutl manuscript is Boas' finest linguistic work. Discusses publication details. including cost (estimated at $10,000), and mentions the Learned Societies...
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (10 February 1943) , 1 page(s)
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Copy of Letter from Ruth Benedict to William E. Lingelbach, November 11, 1946
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written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (11 November 1946) , 1 page(s)
Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to William E. Lingelbach, librarian, American Philosophical Society, informs Lingelbach that the [Franz] Boas translation of Chehalis folklore is being sent express prepaid. Benedict is 'very glad' to have 'this indispensable translation' added to the Boas Collection....
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (11 November 1946) , 1 page(s)
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Partial Manuscript on Categories of Speech
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 3 page(s)
Three pages contain a brief, possibly partial, hand-written manuscript analyzing categories of speech - 'virtues, sins, kinds of people, kinds of status' - essentially as human artifacts, created by earlier generations for their own purposes in the same way the constellations and the zodiac were mapped out. And th...
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 3 page(s)
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