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Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996

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BOX R9-R12 Addition II: General Correspondence, 1914-1978
Letters sent and received including miscellaneous attachments and enclosures.
Arranged chronologically and therein alphabetically by writer.
BOX R9 1914-1927
(5 folders)
1928-1939
A-C
(4 folders)
BOX R10 D-W
(4 folders)
Unidentified
(2 folders)
1940-1952
(11 folders)
BOX R11 1953-1970
(19 folders)
BOX R12 1971-1978, undated
(9 folders)
BOX R12 Addition II: Curriculum Vitae, 1926-1941
Resumes and reports relating to Mead's colleagues and students.
Arranged alphabetically by name of individual.
BOX R12 Chinnery, Ernest, circa 1930
MacLeod, William Christie, 1926
Minton, Peter, 1941
BOX R12-R14 Addition II: Publications and Other Writings File, 1902-1975
Correspondence, handwritten and typewritten drafts, printed copies, and notes relating to publications by Mead and others.
Arranged chronologically by date of publication or by date of writing if unpublished.
BOX R12 1902, 1917-1925
(15 folders)
BOX R13 1926-1956, 1975
(40 folders)
Undated
(4 folders)
BOX R14 (8 folders)
BOX R14 Addition II: Teaching File, 1927-1962
Miscellaneous examinations and lecture notes.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX R14 Examinations, 1962
Lecture notes, 1927-1948, undated
BOX R14 Addition II: Office File, 1940-1975
Correspondence and interoffice memoranda relating to Mead's office at the American Museum of Natural History.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX R14 Administrative material, 1940-1975, undated
BOX R14-R15 Addition II: Miscellany, 1912-1978
Address lists, divorce papers, estate and financial papers, greetings, newspaper clippings, notes, personality analyses, printed ephemera, and wills.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX R14 Address lists, 1943, 1951, 1963, undated
Divorce papers, 1950-1951
(2 folders)
Estate of Alice Metcalfe, 1944-1947
Financial papers
Barclays Bank, Ltd., London, England, 1943, 1952-1953
Correspondence, 1953
Taxes, income, 1962, undated
Holidays
Christmas, 1920, undated
Other, 1920, undated
Newspaper clippings, 1916-1972, undated
Notes, undated
(1 folder)
BOX R15 (1 folder)
Personality analyses
Horoscope, undated
Rorschach tests, undated
Printed ephemera, 1912-1930, 1953-1978, undated
(4 folders)
Wills and instructions, 1951
BOX R15-R16 Addition II: Fieldwork, 1925-1976
Correspondence, reports, financial papers, notebooks, and research material.
Arranged alphabetically by geographical location and therein chronologically by name of field trip.
BOX R15 American Samoa, Mead field trip, 1925-1926
Bali, Mead and Gregory Bateson field trip, 1936-1938, 1976, undated
Papua New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
1928-1929, Mead and Reo Fortune field trip to Manus
1952-1953, Mead, Theodore Schwartz, and Lenora Schwartz field trip
(2 folders)
1965, Mead, Theodore Schwartz, and Lola Romanucci Schwartz field trip
1971, Mead field visit
BOX R16 Miscellany, 1928, undated
(3 folders)
New Guinea
Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli peoples, Mead and Reo Fortune field trip, 1931-1933, 1976, undated
(2 folders)
Iatmul people, Mead and Gregory Bateson field trip, 1938
BOX R16 Addition II: Papers of Colleagues, 1937-1957
Correspondence and writings of Ruth Benedict and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux.
Arranged alphabetically by name of colleague.
BOX R16 Benedict, Ruth, correspondence, 1937-1945, undated
Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey, life history, 1957
BOX R16-R17 Addition II: Photographic File, 1891-1954
Drawings and photographs of Mead, family members, friends, colleagues, and field trips.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein alphabetically by subject.
BOX R16 Drawings, 1891
Photographs
Family
Bateson, Gregory, and family, 1900-1927, undated
(2 folders)
Bateson, Mary Catherine, undated
Cressman, Luther Sheeleigh, 1917-1918
Fogg family, undated
Kirkpatrick family, undated
Mead, Edward Sherwood, undated
Mead, Frederick, undated
BOX R17 Mead, Richard Ramsay, 1918, undated
Sherwood family, 1920, undated
Upton family, undated
Friends and colleagues, 1953-1954, undated
Fieldwork
Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, 1928-1929
Unidentified, undated
Mead, Margaret, with others, 1930, 1940
Negatives
Psychological test, undated
Unidentified, undated
Unidentified, undated
(3 folders)
BOX S1-S2 Addition III: Family Papers, 1913-1996
Correspondence of family members, speeches and writings, drawings, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
BOX S1 Bateson, Caroline Beatrice, 1939-1940
Bateson, Gregory
Correspondence
Bateson, Caroline Beatrice, 1913, undated
Benedict, Ruth, 1933-1937
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