PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00274::Lewis Mumford Collection)//EN" "ViU00274.sgm" A Guide to the Lewis Mumford CollectionMumford, Lewis. 8009Processed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00274::Lewis Mumford Collection)//EN" "ViU00274.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Lewis Mumford Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 8009

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #8009 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
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Lewis Mumford Collection 1931 8009 5 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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

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Deposit, 13 August 1965

 Funding Note

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

 Item Listing Letters Lewis Mumfordto Alfred Sheppard Dashiell 1931 March 24 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Alfred Sheppard Dashiellto Lewis Mumford 1931 April 10 TL (carbon), 1 p.

[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 Mumfordto Alfred Sheppard Dashiell 1931 March 31 ALS, 2 p.

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

 Lewis Mumfordto Alfred Sheppard Dashiell 1931 May 29 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Alfred Sheppard Dashiellto Lewis Mumford 1931 June 3 TL (carbon), 1 p.

[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.]