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Manuscript/Mixed Material Fund-Raising Letter from Robert S. Lynd to the Executive Director of the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation.

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Title

  • Fund-Raising Letter from Robert S. Lynd to the Executive Director of the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation.

Names

  • Lynd, Robert Staughton

Created / Published

  • 1930/12/04

Headings

  • -  Research
  • -  Consumption (Economics)
  • -  Social sciences
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Carbon typescript of a fourteen-page fund-raising proposal letter, dated December 4, 1930, written by Robert Lynd of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to J. Steele Gow, executive director of the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. It explains the importance of "investment at this time in research in the field of the Social Sciences." Lynd suggested eleven areas in which the SSRC, an endowed foundation, was eager to undertake study. The first area listed in this sketch of a grand plan to survey changes sweeping over American society in the 1920s was the "Economics of Consumption . . . a well-nigh virgin field." The Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation of Pittsburgh did, in fact, fund a somewhat later study, titled "America's Capacity to Consume," but it was published by the Brookings Institution, not the SSRC. Reproduced as facsimile page images: 14 pages.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Microfilm accession #18,297 (Reel 2)
  • Container 2. Writings: Robert S. Lynd, 1922-65, n.d. Folder: Research Projects - Social Science Research Council, 1927-33

Source Collection

  • Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd papers.

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Chicago citation style:

Lynd, Robert Staughton. Fund-Raising Letter from Robert S. Lynd to the Executive Director of the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. /12/04, 1930. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mss51664_02/.

APA citation style:

Lynd, R. S. (1930) Fund-Raising Letter from Robert S. Lynd to the Executive Director of the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. /12/04. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss51664_02/.

MLA citation style:

Lynd, Robert Staughton. Fund-Raising Letter from Robert S. Lynd to the Executive Director of the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. /12/04, 1930. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss51664_02/>.