Guide to the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, 1857-1958
consisting of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts,
articles, speeches, financial papers, reports, teaching materials, and photographs.
Correspondents include Franz Boas with whom she studied and worked. Subjects include
American Anthropological Association, Progressive Education Association, West Side
Defense Council (New York City), Council Against Intolerance in America, American
Association of University Women, American Folklore Journal, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Indians of the American Southwest including Pima, Zuni, Dakotas, Sioux, and
Shoshone, civil rights, and Japan and Japanese culture. Other items include her
published and unpublished poetry; grant proposals; correspondence, clippings, and
reports from field work, including her Mescalero trip, 1931-1932; and a draft of
Margaret Mead's .