Papers, 1926-1984 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1926-1984 (inclusive).

Mainly correspondence between Pitcher and Goodenough covering their relationship from courtship through divorce. Collection also contains a scrapbook of articles co-written by Pitcher on her work at the Gesell Institute, material from Tufts, three travel diaries and one she kept at age 11, and letters from friends and her children. Some of Goodenough's work is described in the correspondence and a biographical folder.

1.5 linear ft.

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Eliot, Abigail Adams, 1892-1992

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Abigail Adams Eliot was born October 9, 1892, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Reverend Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856-1945) and Mary Jackson (May) Eliot (1859-1926). Her sister, Martha May Eliot (whose papers are in the Schlesinger Library, MC 229), was head of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor between 1951 and 1956. Her brother, Frederick May Eliot, was head of the Unitarian Association of America starting in 1937 till his death in 1958. ...

Pitcher, Evelyn Goodenough.

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Evelyn Wiltshire Goodenough Pitcher (1915- ): child development specialist, (Wilson College, A.B., 1937; Yale University, A.M. in English, 1939, Ph.D. in education and psychology, 1956) taught and studied pre-school children at the Gesell Institute of Child Development in New Haven (1951-1959), directed the Eliot-Pearson School of Child Development at Tufts (ca. 1959-ca. 1965), and when the school became a Tufts dept. in 1965, she became a Tufts professor and chairman of the Dept. of Child Study...

Yale University.

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Gesell Institute of Child Development

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Tufts University

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Eliot-Pearson School of Child Development.

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Goodenough, Erwin Ramsdell, 1893-1965

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Erwin R. Goodenough, educator, received a B.A. degree from Hamilton College in 1915. He was a student at Drew Theological Seminary from 1915 to 1916, and received his S.T.B. from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1917. Goodenough studied at Harvard for three years until 1920, and received a D.Phil. degree from Oxford University in 1923. He was an instructor of history at Yale, 1923-1926; assistant professor, 1926-1931; associate professor, 1931-1934; professor of history of religion, 1934-1959; the ...