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Louise Bates Ames papers, 1915-1996

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BOX 1-2 Family Correspondence, 1915-1975
Correspondence to and from family members, in particular Ames's mother, Annie E. Bates, and daughter, Joan Ames Chase. Included are Bates's rorschach responses that became the basis for Ames's Rorschach Responses in Old Age.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
BOX 1 Ames, Smith Whittier (former husband), 1946-1975
Bates, Annie E. (mother)
Correspondence, 1915-1916, 1932-1944, 1954-1963
(13 folders)
BOX 2 Rorschach responses, 1948-1963
Bates, Kay (sister-in-law), 1957
Chase, Joan Ames (daughter), 1953-1970
(3 folders)
Spaulding, Ella (aunt), 1957-1960
BOX 2-7 Special Correspondence, 1935-1975
Correspondence to and from friends, colleagues, child psychologists, authors, newspaper editors, television producers, and government officials.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
BOX 2 Boppert, Walter T., 1971-1975
(3 folders)
Collier, Herbert L., 1971-1973
Culbertson, James T.
1937-1940
(4 folders)
BOX 3 1941-1946, undated
(4 folders)
Dodd, Thomas J., 1961-1964
Dodson, Fitzhugh, 1969-1973
Elicker, Paul H., 1943-1946
Gesell, Arnold, 1935-1964
Gesell, Gerhard Alden, 1964
Goodenough, Evelyn See Container 7, Pitcher, Evelyn Goodenough
Hall Newspaper Syndicate
1951-1958
(4 folders)
BOX 4 1959-1969
(5 folders)
Hart Publishing Co., regarding Summerhill: For and Against, 1969-1970
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of, 1962-1968
Ilg, Frances Lillian, 1945-1961
Johnson, Eric W., 1968-1974
Larson, R. K. T. (Kit), 1960-1971
BOX 5 Lye, Len, 1945-1967, undated
(6 folders)
BOX 6 Mead, Margaret, 1952-1954
Métraux, Ruth W. and Guy S., 1942-1974
(7 folders)
Moore, Raymond S., 1972-1974
Moynihan, Daniel P., 1969-1970
Packard, Vance, 1965-1969
Perris, Donald L., 1960-1969
BOX 7 Pitcher, Evelyn Goodenough, 1959-1964
Sands, Alan, 1955-1958
See, Harold P., 1961-1964
Silberberg, Norman E., 1969-1974
Silverthorne, Henry, 1954-1963
Slosson, Richard L., 1961-1967
Spock, Benjamin, 1961-1962
Taylor, John I., 1952-1957
(3 folders)
U.S. Public Health Service, 1948
White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1970-1971
(2 folders)
BOX 8-9 General Correspondence, 1941-1974
Letters to and from the general public regarding the column Parents Ask and from psychologists and students concerning research projects and books. Some business correspondence is also included.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 8 1941-1963
(11 folders)
BOX 9 1964-1974, undated
(11 folders)
BOX 10-16 "Parents Ask" Newspaper Column, 1954-1968
A sampling of letters to and from readers of the syndicated column Parents Ask (called Child Behavior until 1962) and a set of columns for the years 1967-1968.
Letters are arranged chronologically by year and thereunder alphabetically by name of correspondent. Columns are arranged chronologically.
BOX 10 Letters from readers
1954-1956
(6 folders)
1957
A-L
BOX 11 M-W
1958-1960
(4 folders)
1961
A-C
BOX 12 D-Y and anonymous
(4 folders)
1962
A-L
(2 folders)
BOX 13 L-Y and anonymous
(2 folders)
1963
Ac-Mc
(3 folders)
BOX 14 Me-Wo and anonymous
(2 folders)
1964
(3 folders)
BOX 15 Column
1967
(6 folders)
BOX 16 1968
(6 folders)
BOX 17-26 Writings, 1947-1974
Drafts, proofs, and publishers' correspondence relating to Ames's books and a small collection of articles written by others. Books are arranged alphabetically by title.
Articles are arranged alphabetically by name of author.
BOX 17 Child Care and Development
Correspondence
Rand McNally and Co., 1966-1970
(2 folders)
J. B. Lippincott Co., 1968-1970
Preliminary chapter outlines, 1966-1969
Draft
(9 folders)
BOX 18 Draft
(17 folders)
BOX 19 Don't Push Your Pre-Schooler
Typescript
(5 folders)
Carbon copy
(4 folders)
Reader's proof
(3 folders)
BOX 20 Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, typescript for revised edition, 1974
(8 folders)
BOX 21 Is Your Child in the Wrong Grade?
Correspondence, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966
Outlines
First draft
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