Personal/Professional Files, 1942-1961

This series includes most of Pitts’s correspondence with Birdie Alexander, Robert van Doren, James Mursell, Jack Robbins, and others. Also included is business-related correspondence between Pitts and Teaching Film Custodians, Warner Brothers, and Western Union. There are many items related to Pitts’s teaching duties, including contracts, recommendations for employment or graduate study, and material related to Pitts’s frequent educational workshops given during the 1950s. Along with Series 6, this series also contains some files relating to Pitts’s involvement with the MENC. However, those files relating to her tenure as MENC president are generally housed in Series 6.