Interview of child psychiatrist Robert Coles. [2006-06-22].
Child psychiatrist, author, and former Harvard professor Robert Coles, talks about his personal correspondence and how and why he would write as many as twenty to twenty-five letters a day throughout much of his career. Coles says that writing letters allowed him to connect with people on a deeper l...
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| Language: | English |
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MSU: Gift of David Cooper. |
| Physical Description: | 1 audio file (1 hr., 32 min., 9 sec.) |
| Format: | Audio Software |
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Child psychiatrist, author, and former Harvard professor Robert Coles, talks about his personal correspondence and how and why he would write as many as twenty to twenty-five letters a day throughout much of his career. Coles says that writing letters allowed him to connect with people on a deeper level and that his volume of correspondence increased dramatically between 1984 and 1997 when he became well known and more people started sending him letters, which he always tried to answer. He also explains why he tried to keep the tenor of his correspondence cordial and not confrontational and says that he started to write fewer letters after the death of wife in 1993. Coles is interviewed by David Cooper, Michigan State University professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, in Concord, MA. |
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| Note: | Title supplied. Electronic resource. Recorded on micro-cassette and digitized by the Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the David Cooper papers (MSS 617) held in Special Collections at the MSU Libraries. |
| Call Number: | MSS 617-03 Voice 41357 |
| Playing Time: | 01:32:09 |
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Interviewee, Robert Coles; interviewer, David Cooper. |
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Recorded 2006 June 22 |