Thanks her for letting him see her treatment of symbolism, commenting 'I think your position with regard to functionalism and historical interpretations is sound'. The paper she sent him was probably 'Symbolism as a mental process' (1931a) which is a defence of a socially functionalist account of symbolism being maintained in parallel with understandings of symbolism as a mental process, as against its reduction mainly to Freudian personal processes. 1931 was the first year of McConnel's attendance at Sapir's seminars at Yale.

Previously acessioned as Binder 2- AA191/04/02