Scope and content Primarily correspondence of Cornell Librarians George William Harris, Willard Austen, and Otto Kinkeldey concerning such routine library matters as requests for information, receipts for books, donations, and other business. Also, miscellaneous correspondence of Woodford Patterson, Albert William Smith, David Fletcher Hoy, Justin Winsor, and letters to the C.U. Board of Trustees and faculty members. Some correspondence relates to the Fiske collections. ...

Abstract

Largely correspondence presenting a picture of the professional status and interests of psychologist Edward Titchener, containing much information on fellow psychologists and psychology departments at other universities, as well as the struggle of psychology to establish itself as an academic discipline. There is also correspondence concerning the publication of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY and a bound typescript of Titchener's A BEGINNER'S PSYCHOLOGY (1915).