Author: Frank, Waldo. (1889-1967). American novelist, "New Yorker" writer and scholar of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture .
Title: Typed Letter to Educator Harold Rugg Signed by American Novelist and "New Yorker" Writer Waldo Frank.
Description: Truro, MA: September 18, 1950. 1950. - Two typed paragraphs filling most of a sheet of his 5-1/2 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide personalized letterhead with his name printed at top left. Signed "Waldo". The top left corner of the letter is lightly creased with several pinholes where it has been stapled. Folded twice for mailing. Together with a carbon copy of Rugg's reply. Very good.

Frank writes to Harold Rugg of Columbia University's Teacher's College asking if he can use his name as a reference in applying for a Guggenheim Fellowship. "..My next book, I plan and hope, will be the one I have always wanted to write and you have always urged me to write: the basic one on The Person - "The Rediscovery of Man." But I shall definitely not be able to afford to do it unless I get some sort of subsidy; wherefore I am applying to the Guggenheim people. May I include you as one of my References, together with R. Niebuhr, Maritain, Lewis Mumford and Alvin Johnson?.." Frank's book "The Rediscovery of Man: A Memoir and Methodology of Modern Life" was published in New York in 1958.

Having been reproached by Frank for being "a bad letter-writer", Rugg replies on October 30, apologizing profusely for having failed to write sooner: "Again and again I ask for forgiveness for my sins of omission..When [your letter] came I said instantly, 'Of course I shall write by return mail and say use my name with the Guggenheim Foundation.' I so hope that you have sent it in even though you haven't heard fro me.."

Waldo Frank [1889-1967] was an American novelist, historian, political activist and literary critic. He wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New Republic during the 1920s and 1930s. He is best known for his studies of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture and his work is regarded as an intellectual bridge between the two continents.

Harold Rugg [1886-1981] was an educational reformer associated with the Progressive education movement. Originally trained in civil engineering, he went on to study psychology, sociology and education at the University of Illinois. After teaching at the University of Chicago from 1915 to 1920, he took a job at the Columbia University Teacher's College where he stayed until he retired in 1951. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; TYPED LETTER TO EDUCATOR HAROLD RUGG SIGNED BY AMERICAN NOVELIST AND "NEW YORKER" WRITER WALDO FRANK; SCHOLAR OF SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE; THE REDISCOVERY OF MAN; TLS; T.L.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

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