Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.08 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1938-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-27, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 3 is divided into the following 2 sub-series: 
(3.1) Correspondence by date, 1952-2010; 
(3.2) Correspondence by name, circa 1938-2011.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3 consists of letters, cards, faxes, and printed emails to and from Edmund Carpenter. The bulk of the material is professional in nature and documents Carpenter's relationships with fellow anthropologists as well as the organization and reception of his various interdisciplinary projects. The earliest correspondence in this series consists of letters written to Carpenter's colleague and friend Stephen "Skip" Gilman referencing their early archaeological digs in Michigan (1938) and exchanging personal news and banter. The series also includes substantial material documenting Carpenter's correspondence with his frequent collaborator, media scholar Marshall McLuhan.

Of note in this series is a 1957 letter from e. e. cummings to Carpenter, written in verse, and an undated thank-you note addressed to "Sadie" from Helen Keller.