Correspondence, 1928-1995, bulk 1983-1990

Extent:
2 cubic ft.
Scope and content:

This series contains letters that Lowe received and, in many instances, carbon copies of letters that he wrote. Much of the correspondence is from other members of the faculty of the New School for Social Research and from other academic economists, but the series also includes many letters written by Lowe's daughters and grandchildren.

Members of the Graduate Faculty of the University in Exile/New School for Social Research represented include Jan-Robert Bloch, Gerhard Colm, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Jonathan Fanton, Robert Heilbroner, Mary Henle, Mary Jacker, Alvin Johnson, Hans Jonas, Ira Katznelson, Marianne Marschak, and Hans Staudinger. The subseries also contains Lowe's correspondence with former students Murray Brown and Marion Gräfin Dünhof (Marion Countess Dünhof) and economists Heiner Ganssmann, Harald Hagemann, Sigfried Ketterle, Claus-Dieter Krohn, Heinz-Dieter Kurz, Allen Oakley, and Sir Geoffrey Vickers. NB: Other correspondence from these individuals is in some instances located elsewhere in the collection. In most instances, photocopies of these materials have been inserted into this series. Other notable correspondents include Ruth Nanda Anshen, Daniel Bell (1987), T.S. Eliot (1947), Terence W. Hutchinson (1970, 1976?), Leo Lowenthal (1983, 1986), Reinhold Niebuhr (1950), Eleanor Roosevelt (1948), and Leo Strauss (1949). Also included is a copy of a 1986 letter that Lowe sent to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and a response from Peres' secretary.

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Arranged alphabetically.

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