Jerome S. Bruner., 10/21/1945-12/26/1959

File — Box: 1, Folder: 67

Identifier: 59105

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

From the Collection:

The John L. Brown Papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques Maritain, Carson McCullers, Darius Milhaud, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Edmee Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stegner, Gerald Sykes, Allen Tate, Virgil Thompson, Richard Wright, and 'Zev' (Daniel A. Harris).

Dates

10/21/1945-12/26/1959

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Extent

From the Collection: 1.3 Linear Feet (3 Hollinger Document Cases)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Correspondence from Jerome S. Bruner (1915- ) to John L. Brown (6 items): TLS 10/21/1945 TLS 12/12/1945 TLS 1/17/1946 TLS 3/7/1946 TLS 9/9/1946 ALS 12/16/1959 Includes typed carbons from Brown. Reference(s) to joint work with Brown on "Report on France" (1946), and to Bruner's work, "On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand" (Harvard University Press, 1962). Also references by Bruner to granddaughters of Georg Simmel and Sigmund Freud (Sophie Freud), as well as to Malcolm Cowley.

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

BRUNER, JEROME S. - CORRES. TO BROWN, JOHN L. 1945-59: Typed Letter Signed

BROWN, JOHN L. - CORRES. TO/FROM BRUNER, JEROME 1945-59: Typed Letter Signed

BROWN, JOHN L. & BRUNER, JEROME - "REPORT ON FRANCE" - REFERENCE 1945: Typed Letter Signed

BRUNER, JEROME S. - "ON KNOWING: ESSAYS FOR THE LEFT HAND" - REF. 1959: Typed Letter Signed

COWLEY, MALCOLM - REFERENCE: Typed Letter Signed

FREUD, SOPHIE - REFERENCE BY BRUNER, JEROME S. 1945: Typed Letter Signed

SIMMEL, GEORG (GRANDDAUGHTER OF) - REFERENCE BY BRUNER, JEROME S. 1945: Typed Letter Signed