PP/22/1/84 - [Letter, Henry Morris to Jack Pritchard, 1/8/41]

Reference code

PP/22/1/84

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Henry Morris to Jack Pritchard, 1/8/41]

Date/s

1941

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Winant, John Gilbert
Winant, Constance Rivington
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Wilson, [---?], (of United States Department of the Interior)

Subject

Impington Village College
Rockefeller Foundation
United States. Department of the Interior
Spelman Fund

Creator

Morris, Henry,

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Henry Morris asks Jack Pritchard if he would invite [John and Constance] Winant to formally declare Impington Village College open and will send them a relevant copy of `Architectural Review.'

Henry Morris mentions that the Village College Scheme has been followed with interest in America," the Spelman Fund "part of the Rockefeller Foundation" contributed generously to the scheme and the Rockefeller Foundation arranged his visit to Washington, USA in 1934 where he was "attached to the Department of the Interior and [helped] in the section under Dr. Wilson." Mentions that Winant might be interested to know that Walter Gropius, designer of Impington Village College, is now a professor of Architecture at Harvard. Henry Morris offers to provide their accommodation.

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/22 - Henry Morris
  - PP/22/1 - Henry Morris Papers until 1950
    - PP/22/1/84 - [Letter, Henry Morris to Jack Pritchard, 1/8/41]

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