Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Edel, May M. (May Mandelbaum), 1909-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Edel, Abraham, 1908-2007
setName: label: See more items in
content: May Mandelbaum Edel papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932-1996
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2005-27, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains the correspondence of May M. Edel and Abraham Edel. May M. Edel's correspondence includes personal and professional letters. Professional correspondents include Franz Boas, Bertha Cohen, and Ernest B. Kalibala. Subjects include her field work and writings.

The correspondence of Abraham Edel includes letters regarding May M. Edel's death in 1964; publishing issues with Little, Brown and Co. regarding her books; reprints of her other writings; and the donation of May Edel's papers to the University of Washington and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

This series retains previously arranged correspondent files which are arranged alphabetically. Other correspondence is arranged chronologically. 

Subseries: Edel, May Mandelbaum

Subseries: Edel, Abraham