Call Number:

Ms. Coll. 1071

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Jane Morley collection of letters from Sophia Mumford, 1987-1991, Ms. Coll. 1071, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1987-1991 (inclusive)

Creator:

Morley, Jane and Mumford, Sophia Wittenberg

Form:

Correspondence

Abstract:

Jane Morley served as the executive administrator for the University of Pennsylvania's International Symposium on Lewis Mumford in 1987 and developed a friendship with Sophia Mumford. The collection contains letters Sophia Mumford wrote to Morley from 1987 through 1991.

Jane Morley (1955-2013) was born February 7, 1955 in Hammond, Indiana to Clifford and Lillian (Varady) Morley. She received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Duke University in 1976, and a Doctor of Philosophy in History and Sociology of Science from the University Pennsylvania, 1996. While a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, she was an editorial assistant for the journal ISIS. She lectured at Tongji University in Shanghai, served as the executive administrator for the International Symposium on Lewis Mumford, and wrote Stretching a 'canvass of possibilities' : on the subject of Lewis Mumford.

Morley died on February 4, 2013 in Arrington, Virginia.

The University of Pennsylvania hosted the International Symposium on Lewis Mumford, November 5-7, 1989. Penn graduate fellow, Jane Morley, served as the symposium coordinator and as a result developed a friendship with Sophia Mumford. Arranged chronologically, Mumford's letters to Morley initially discussed the symposium but evolved into more personal matters centered around Mumford's husband, Lewis. Several letters include Mumford's reaction to Don Miller's biography, Lewis Mumford, a life, which caused Mumford emotional distress.