LevelFile
Ref NoLATH/01/01/02/02
TitleCorrespondence I
Date1957-1958
Extent1- folder
DescriptionFile contains carbon copies of Professor E.C.Tolman's typed correspondence [mostly on yellow paper].

Details include:

Letter to Dr.Jerome Hirsch, Colombia University, re: unfair to Tinbergen, 04/03/57

Letter to Renzo Canestrar, Bologna University, re: reprint request, 06/03/57

Letter to Honorable Byron Rumford, State Capitol, Sacramento, re: certification of practicing psychologists : lobbying 12/03/57

Letter to Honorable Donald Doyle, Contra Costa County, same practice bill, lobby as above in Sacramento, 13/03/57

Letter to and from Dr. Marian Winterbottom, Connecticut College, reprint request, 24/07/57

Letter from Colegio Nacional, Argentina, re: reprint request, 06/08/57

1- yellow page containing, 3- reprint request cards, from; C.G.Costello, Canada, Sherwin J.Klein, Penna and Bettina Bass, Iowa, 1957

Letter to and from Professor Koh Johdai, Hiroshima University, Japan re: postponement of Professor Johdai's visit to the US due to his stomach ulcer, 20/08/57

1- yellow page containing, 3-reprint requests cards from; Hal Moon, Georgia, Allen Blomquist, Wisconsin, Sylvan Kornblum, Michigan, 1957

1- yellow page containing a reprint request card from William A.Sleser?, New York, 21/09/57

Letter to and from Dr.Howard Brand, Standford University, re cancellation of lunch appointment due to Tolman's wife suffering from angina, 16/10/57

Letter to and from George L. Kreezer, Texas University [ed.] re: requesting book review for American Journal of Psychology, 10/10/57

3-page letter from Sigmund Koch APA , re: gratitude for Tolman's previous letter, 30/10/57

Letter to and from Mr Joseph R.Royce, Redlands, re: reprint request, 05/11/1957

Letter to Dr.John C.Kenna, Manchester University, re: Brunswick's list of publications 05/11/57

Letter to and from Dr.Karel Lambert, Alberta University, Canada, re: principles of performance questions, 11/11/57

Letter to Professor Walter Gruen, (a former student of Tolman), University of Buffalo, re: comments concerning Prof. Gruen's paper, (Social Interaction), 30/12/58

Letter from and handwritten draft letter to Dr.Stephen P. Hatchett, Department of Health, re: request for research fellowship from Daniel Edgar Bailey, undated

Letter to and from Dr. Harvey Nash, Northwestern University, re: Tolman's diagrams, 15/12/58

Letter to and from Professor Edwin G. Boring, Harvard University, re: request for Tolman to be a guest columnist for ' Contemporary Psychologist' 11/12/58

Letter to Dr. Donald W.Taylor, Dept of Psychology, Yale University re: thanking Dr.Taylor for his paper on research in Psychology, 02/12/58

Letter to and from Mr. Lawrence J. Hammond, Northwestern University, re: request for summary of Tolman's speech before the APA convention, 26/11/58

Letter to Mr. Laurence Jaeger, Basic Books, re: quoting Tolman's favourable review of Gardner Murphy's 'Human Potentialities', 24/11/58

Letter to Dr.Gardner Murphy, Menninger Foundation, Kansas, re: comments on 'Human Potentialities', 24/11/58

Letter to and [handwritten] from Dr. Seisoh Sukemune, Hiroshima University,re: eperiment in progress, 24/11/58

Letter to Dr. Donald R. Brown, Bryn Marr College re: Lazarsfeld's book proof, 12/11/58

Letter to and from Dr. J.B.Rhine, Duke University, re: data in a discrimination-learning experiment, 21/10/58

Letter to Dr. Charles F. Wallraff, University of Arizona, re: reprint on Locke and Boring, 21/10/58

Letters [4] to and from Prof. Donald O. Hebb, McGill University, re: writing a necrology for K.S.Lashley, Oct. 1958

Letter from Professor Koji Sato, Psychologia Society, Kyota University, Japan, re: gratitude to Tolman for showing kindness to visiting researchers, 19/09/58

Progress report and request (for 1958-59)document from Psychology Department, Research grant #220, undated

Letters [4] to and from Dr.Joan V. Bondurant, Indian Press Digests Project, Berkeley: Institute of Foreign Affairs, re: writing a critical note for Dr.Bondurant's book 'Conquest of Violence', 11/09/58

Letter from E.C.Tolman to Univ.of Illinois Press, ordering a book 'The Measurement of Learning', by Osgood et al, 08/09/58

Letter to and from Dr. Roger W. Russell, editor the American Psychologist, re: publishing Tolman's 1958 APA Annual convention address, 27/08/58

Letter to and from Dr.David Premack, University of Missouri re: Dr. Premack's paper 'A General Reformulation of Reinforcement: I Positive Reinforcement', 20/08/58

Letter to and from Mr.Walter Yust, Editor Encyclopaedia, re: request for Tolman to revise and expand the article on Psychology , 19/08/58

Letter to and from Claremont Graduate School, California re: reference for graduate student Robert J. Schweers, 15/08/58

Letter to and from Dr. Evan O.Kane, re: advice on the setting up of a United Nations University, 14/08/58

Letter to and from Mr.Michael Amrine, A.P.A. re: request for copy of Tolman's convention address, 13/08/58

Letter to Professor Koji Sato, re: expressing gratitude to Tolman for his gift, 04/08/58

Letter to and from Mr. John P. Seward, UCLA, request for fellowship reference, 29/07/58

Letter to and from Professor Donald Campbell, Northwestern University, re: request for reprints 22/07/58

Letter to and from Dr.George G. Thompson, Syracuse University, request for Tolman's photograph , 17/07/58

Letter to and from Dr.Bernard F. Reiss, International Research Newsletter in Mental Health, re: request for Tolman's contribution to the first issue , 14/07/58

Letter to Dr.Norbett L.Mintz, Brandeis University, re: reprints, undated

Letter to and handwritten from Dr. Seidoh Sukemune, Columbus, Ohio, 25/06/58

Letter from Professor Wattenberg, Wayne State University, re: reprint request, 09/06/58

Letter to and from Professor Ichiro Koura, Hiroshima University, re: death of Prof. Koh Johdai, 04/06/58

Letter to and from Dr.Joseph D. Matarazzo, University of Oregon Medical School, re: reference for Dr. W.Wilson, 26/05/58

Letter from Donald W. Taylor, Yale University, re: invitation for Tolman to serve as consultant to the APA seminar, 20/05/58

Letter to Professor Leo J. Postman, University of California, re: recommendation of Professor Neal E. Miller to speak as Hitchcock lecturer [copy of Prof. Miller's C.V.enclosed], 16/04/58

Letter from Sam C. Sottosanti, McGraw-Hill Book Company, re: galley proofs for Koch's forthcoming title ': Psychology: A Study of a Science, Vol. II, 15/04/58

Letter to and from Professor Elizabeth E. Hoyt, Iowa State College, re: asking Tolman's advice on a proposed article by Hoyt, 05/04/58

Letter to and from Karel Lambert, University of Alberta, re: results of shuttle-box experiment, 09/04/58

Letter from [and envelope], Robert B. Malmo, McGill University, re: mailed reprint, 24/03/58

1- yellow page containing 3-reprint requests cards from, William Fein, LA, A.Coates, Canada and R.L.Hutson, Canada, c.Jan-March 1958

Letter from Ralph W.Burhoe, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, re: Tolman's classification, 17/03/58

Letter to Professor George W. Albee, Western Reserve University, re: Tolman's title of address on A.P.A. day, 10/03/58

Letter from Philip E. Lilienthal, Berkeley University Press, re: contract for Tolman's forthcoming paperback edition of 'Collected Papers in Psychology', 29/01/58

Letter to and from Professor Koh Johdai, Hiroshima University, re: 30/12/57

Letter to and from Professor Karel Lambert, University of Alberta, Canada, re: theoretical and logical deductions, 27/12/57

Letters [4] to and from Dr.Sigmund Koch, Duke University and 1- letter to Mr.Chester A.Willets, Editor, McGraw-Hill Book Company, re: invitation to evaluate Koch's introduction to 'Psychology: A Study of Science' [ Tolman's draft commentary included], 19/12/57

Letter to R.W.Tyler, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, re: requesting reference for Howard Brand [ex postgraduate student], 19/12/57

1- yellow page containing 3-reprint requests cards from; Paul Jacobs U.C.A.S. New York, William Fein LA, J Ba? Dacca University, Sept.-Dec. 1957

1- yellow page containing 2-reprint requests cards from; Kenji Furuya, Tokyo University of Education and William Glaser, Columbia University, 1957

2- page plan for Fellowship Eleanor J. Gibson, undated
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