To cherish the life of the world : selected letters of Margaret Mead / edited by Margaret M. Caffrey and Patricia A. Francis ; with a foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson.

Selected letters of Margaret Mead

New York : Basic Books, [2006], ©2006.

xxxiii, 429 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-409) and index.

"Selected works of Margaret Mead": p. 411-412.

Family : bread and butter and applesauce -- Husbands : starved for likemindedness -- Lovers : continuingly meaningful -- Friends : a genius for friendship -- Colleagues : what is important is the work -- Growing family : kith and kin.