Lot 145
Meninger, Karl -- TLS to a Fellow Psychiatrist: "All the state governors have decided that state hospitals are their number one problem". (1893-1990) Psychiatrist who co-founded with his father the Menninger Clinic (1919), a psychiatric facility in Topeka, that grew into the Menninger Foundation. Typed letter signed, one page, 11 x 8½", The Menninger Foundation stationery, Topeka, Kansas, April 18, 1950. To Dr. Harry Wagenheim, at Yale, in part, "We have been at least victorious in our battle with the VA… However, the whole experience has had a very demoralizing effect…You probably have heard about the meeting in New York which the Menninger Foundation had as part of its big fund-raising drive. Over one hundred influential people were at the meeting, and I think it went very well. I was in Pennsylvania for a meeting of the Advisory Council to the Council of State Governments. All the state governors have decided that state hospitals are their number one problem, and I have been on an advisory committee preparing recommendations on how to improve the state hospital systems…."
With two additional typed letters signed by his brother William C.Menninger (1899-1966), one signed "Dr. Will", the other "Bill"; these may be secretarial but have significant content. In one he writes to Dr. Wagenheim, "This is to remind you of my request to have you please put down one or two or five or any number of points that you believe we as psychiatrists might say to a group of primary or secondary school teachers that would be helpful to them. I hope you will take time to do this for our Public Education Committee activities". With a letter from Dr.Wagenheim presenting the three Menninger letters to a collector. Estimate Value $300 - UP
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