Lewis Mumford Collection 1931

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Lewis Mumford Collection, Accession 8009, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Lewis Mumford Collection, Accession 8009, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[States that he is sending Dashiell the first draft of an essay and asks for his criticism. Says he will not be able to write about the scholars and philosophers because Charles Sanders Peirce's papers ( Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce5 v. 1931-1934) are not yet available.]

[Says that Maxwell Perkinsagrees with him about the manuscript. Suggests that since landscape is such a broad subject and hard to make interesting that material on Charles Gustavus Roeblingbe included, and the material on Central Park reduced. ]

[ Lewis Mumforddiscusses rewriting the essay. Thinks he will leave out the section on Charles Eliotand include instead the story of Charles Gustavus Roebling. ]

[Says he has been in Amenia, N. Y.a fortnight during which time he wrote the first draft of the essay which he is sending.]

[Feels that the conclusion of the article needs improvement, and states that he is not buying any more articles until next fall. Discusses The Brown Decadespublication date, and an article about it for the October issue.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit, 13 August 1965
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
5 items