Selections from the Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas 1923-1940

To the end of his life, Franz Boas dictated letters under a sense of constraint, and the copies of his correspondence in the American Philosophical Society are correspondingly unrevealing. However, these letters to Ruth Benedict were written by hand, as were most of her letters to him, and their exchange is revealing of the depth and style of their relationship, for which a common concern for the needs of anthropology and anthropological students and the wider world formed a basis.