Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1912-1971, n.d.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1912-1971, n.d.

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Roderick Seidenberg's correspondence with Carl Zigrosser covers 60 years, and a great many topics. Youthful subjects include: Randolph Bourne, Mabel Dwight, conscientious objection and Seidenberg's imprisonment during World War I, arrangements for his release in 1920, camping trips, Lewis Mumford, Rockwell Kent and other artists, The Modern School and The Freeman. Middle age finds Seidenberg writing about Catherine Howard Seidenberg (his wife), his architectural practice, his travels, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, a 1929 housing project that took him to Moscow, a carbon of a long letter to G. V. Hamilton outlining his idea of the historical process and the growth of intelligence, World War II and issues of being Jewish, Mabel Dwight, and his search for a publisher for his philosophical inquiries. The letters from the later years cover the publication of Seidenberg's books, his Guggenheim Fellowship, his continued independent research, architecture projects, the death of Mabel Dwight, shared comments on one another's writings and memories of their early years. Included with the correspondence are clippings of articles by Seidenberg, photographs of Seidenberg, clippings of reviews of Seidenberg's books, carbons and drafts of letters from Carl Zigrosser, letters from Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation, typescripts of chapters from Anatomy of the Future, a copy of the manuscript of The Humanist Dilemma, and an early draft of an essay by Zigrosser about Seidenberg.

311 items (640 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Library

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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