THREE TYPED LETTERS SIGNED TO PSYCHIATRIST ARTHUR FOXE SHOWING GREAT INTEREST IN HIS PAPER "CRIME AND SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT".

Cambridge, MA: October 1939.. 1939.. Very good. - Quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide]. Three letters, two typed on Kendall House, Harvard University letterhead and one on Law School of Harvard University, Special Research Project letterhead. The letters are dated October 7, October 13 and October 26, 1939. Signed "Eleanor T. Glueck" with her title "Research Associate" typed below the signature. Below the title on the third letter she has written in ink "(Mrs. Sheldon Glueck)". Each letter has 2 holes punched in its top edge and has been folded twice for mailing. Very good. <p>Eleanor Touroff Glueck [1898-1972] was an American social worker and criminologist. She and her husband Sheldon Glueck collaborated on research related to juvenile delinquency and developed the "Social Prediction Tables" model for predicting the likelihood of delinquent behavior in youth. They were the first criminologists to perform studies of chronic juvenile offenders.<p>Glueck writes on October 7 to Arthur Foxe, a Freudian psychiatrist and psychotherapist and an expert in criminology, to express interest in his "very significant little article called 'An Additional Classification of Criminals'....Mr. Glueck and I would appreciate it very much if we might have a copy of your paper entitled 'Crime and Sexual Development'". She sends him a reprint of the paper "Newer Ways of Crime Control" On October 13 she writes that she and her husband are coming to New York and hope to meet with him. She also invites him to get in touch if he comes to Boston. Mrs. Glueck's secretary sends a note to Foxe thanking him for sending a copy of his paper. Then on October 26 Eleanor Glueck writes to Foxe that she has finished reading "Crime and Sexual Development" and solicits his opinion on various aspects of the subject.