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Photostatic copies of correspondence between Pitkin and Harry P. Breitenbach, chiefly of a personal nature. There are a few letters from Breitenbach to Pitkin, Jr., concerning the disposition of the original letters.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Photostatic copies of original manuscripts in the Detroit Public Library (Burton Historical Collection). For reference use only. No copies may be made without the permission of the Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Walter B. Pitkin letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Type of reproduction--Photostatic copies
Source of acquisition--Breitenbach, Harry P. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1960. Accession number--M-60.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.
Psychologist and writer from Michigan. Pitkin did graduate work at the Sorbonne, University of Berlin, etc. and several of these letters are from this period. On the Faculty at Columbia as lecturer in psychology, 1905-1909, professor of journalism, 1912-1943, on the editorial staff of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and New York Tribune and other papers, he was also the author of a number of books.
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