This small but important collection of correspondence relates to the formation of the Committee on Research in the Native American Languages, its grants, and its publications. Presented by Waldo G. Leland, 1956.
Correspondence of Armstrong with various anthropologists and linguists, pertaining to the formation of the Committee on Research in American Native Languages, its grants, and resulting publications. Correspondents include Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, J. McKeen Cattell, Pliny Earle Goddard, Charles H. Haskins, J. W. Hewitt, Melville Jacobs, Roland C. Kent, Alfred L. Kroeber, Waldo G. Leland, Robert M. Lester, Fang-Kuei Li, Adrien G. Morice, William A. Oldfather, Gladys A. Reichard, Edward Sapir, Edgar H. Sturtevant, John R. Swanton, and Walter F. Willcox. Restricted.
Arrangement
The collection is not calendared.
Restrictions
Restrictions on Access:Researchers must use photocopies.
Provenance
Gift of Waldo G. Leland and ACLS. Presented by Waldo G. Leland, 1956.
General physical description
174 items.
Personal Name(s)
- Armstrong, E. C., (Edward Cooke), 1871-1944
- Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
- Bryan, R. W., (Ronald W.)
- Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944
- Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937
- Hewitt, Joseph William, 1875-1938
- Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971
- Keat, Roland G.
- Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
- Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966
- Lester, Robert M., (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969
- Li, Fang-kuei, 1902-
- Morice, A. G., (Adrien Gabriel), 1859-1938
- Oldfather, William Abbott, 1880-1945
- Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955
- Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
- Sturtevant, Edgar H., (Edgar Howard), 1875-1952
- Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
- Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964
Subject(s)
- Anthropological linguistics -- America.
- Indians of North America--Languages