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Source of acquisition--Southern Illinois University. Method of acquisition--Through Kenneth W. Duckett; Date of acquisition--1975. Accession number--M75.
Letters to Paul Lewinson by Charles A. Beard, Ernst Correll, and Conyers Read: Source of acquisition--Lewinson, Mrs. Jean Flexner. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/21/89. Accession number--M-89-07-21.
Historian, political scientist.
Gift of Southern Illinois University (via Kenneth W. Duckett), 1975; Gift of Mrs Jean Flexner Lewinson, 1989.
Type of reproduction--In part photocopies
Holder of originals: Originals of the Beard/Counts correspondence are in Special Collections, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Charles Austin Beard letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/03/89.
Letters to Paul Lewinson by Charles A. Beard, Ernst Correll, and Conyers Read Processed JHR 11/20/89.
Correspondence between Beard and George S. Counts who was professor of education at Teacher's College, Columbia University from 1927 to 1974. The correspondence concerns their work on a Commission on Social Sciences in the Schools and comments on and reviews each other's writings and publications. Also includes correspondence to Paul Lewinson written by Beard, Ernst Correll, and Conyers Read dealing with a planned session at the American Historical Association meeting in 1939 which did not take place.
Permission to cite, quote, or copy from the Beard/Counts correspondence must be obtained from. Curator of Special Collections, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.
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