| Description | File contains handwritten notes, type correspondence, typed CVs, testimonials and biographical notes.
Details are as follows:
1-view folder containing early Rhona Rapoport job applications, and CVs (with testimonials) including:
Typed job application and correspondence with Atlantic Refining Company of Africa, Capetown, dated 20th August 1946 (includes original newspaper advertisement for the position)
Various typed correspondence with Mental Hygiene Society of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, concerning a vacany for a social worker and a CESHR bursary dated September and October 1946
Typed letter of support for Rhona Ross (from University of Cape Town) addressed to The London School of Economics, dated 21st November 1946
Handwritten letter of thanks form Edward Batson for a book Rhona Rapoport sent to him, dated 2nd December 1946
Typed letter from Rhona Ross to the Director, Rhodes Livingstone Institute, Rhodesia, in connection with Colonial research, dated 12th February, 1947
Typed letter from Rhona Ross to the Director of Social Welfare, Municipal Social Welfare Department, Johannesburg in connection with Rhona Ross' resignation from this department, dated 14th April, 1947
Typed letters of introduction and job applications from Rhona Ross to various institutions in London concerning vacant posts, dated 1946
Typed correspondence from the University, Birmingham ,UK offering Mrs Sofer a research studentship at the university and other matters dated July, 1948
Typed testimonial (includes CV) from Bedford College for Women (University of London), dated 22nd February 1949
Typed testimonial (for Rhona Sofer) from London School of Economics in connection with a research position at the University of Chicago, dated July 27th, 1947
Typed letters of application and testimonials from Rhona Sofer for a lectureship within the Department of Sociology at the University of Natal, dated 4th August, 1949
Typed correspondence from and to the Nuffield Foundation, London, in connection with an advertised job vacancy (included) for a research worker at the Nuffield, dated 27th July, 1954
Handwritten letter from Uganda enclosing a newspaper cutting from the Uganda Argus of a review of Rhona and Cyril Sofer's book 'Junja Transformed', dated February 1956
Typed letter (copy) to Rhona Sofer of a fomal offer of a Research Associate position with the task force on Patterns of Patient Care of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, dated February 8th, 1957
Typed (copy) testimonial to the Secretary, Education Committee, The Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Boston, Massachusetts in support of Rhona Rapoport, dated January 10th, 1963
Typed letter from Yale University to Rhona Rapoport in connection with a list of contributors for the book 'Issues and Problems in Social Psychiatry: A Book of Readings' dated October 1965
Typed letter to Mr and Mrs Rapoport concerning 'Dual Career Families' book, dated 11th April 1972
Printed document from the Policy Studies Institute entitled ' A Reception to celebrate the publication of 'Families in Britain' edited by Robert and Rhona Rapoport and Michael Fogarty, dated 8th September, 1982
Typed and printed correspondence to Rhona Rapoport from the Ford Foundation Nairobi, Johannesburg and Namibia dated 1992 and 1995
Handwritten letter (no date) and email message dated 1999
Typed document entitled 'Formal and Informal Patterns in the Lives of Men, Women and Children' (no date).
Also included in the file are the following:
1- folder containing:
Typed biographical Notes on Rhona Rapoport dated 1990
Rhona Rapoport's typed CV c 2006
1- folder containing:
Robert N. Rapoport's CV, biographical sketch and a blurb dated 1994-1996
Printed ceremony and obituaries (national newspapers) to celebrate the life of Robert Norman Rapoport 1st November 1924-4th November 1996. |