Correspondence of Armstrong with various anthropologists and linguists, pertaining to the formation of the Committee on Research in American Native Languages, its grants, and resulting publications. Correspondents include Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, J. McKeen Cattell, Pliny Earle Goddard, Charles H. Haskins, J. W. Hewitt, Melville Jacobs, Roland C. Kent, Alfred L. Kroeber, Waldo G. Leland, Robert M. Lester, Fang-Kuei Li, Adrien G. Morice, William A. Oldfather, Gladys A. Reichard, Edward Sapir, Edgar H. Sturtevant, John R. Swanton, and Walter F. Willcox. Restricted.

The collection is not calendared.

Physical description

174 items.

Provenance

Gift of Waldo G. Leland and ACLS. Presented by Waldo G. Leland, 1956.

• Armstrong, E. C. (Edward Cooke), 1871-1944
• Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949
• Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
• Bryan, R. W. (Ronald W.)
• Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944
• Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937
• Hewitt, Joseph William, 1875-1938
• Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971
• Keat, Roland G.
• Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
• Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966
• Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969
• Li, Fang-kuei
• Morice, A. G. (Adrien Gabriel), 1859-1938
• Oldfather, William Abbott, 1880-1945
• Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955
• Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
• Sturtevant, Edgar H. (Edgar Howard), 1875-1952
• Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
• Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964

• Anthropological linguistics -- America.
• Indians of North America -- Languages