Hauser-Lang, 2003-2004, undated

The bulk of the correspondence is between Weinstock and other scholars and teachers in the physics field, as well as editors of various physics journals regarding his own submissions and his work as an independent reviewer. Materials detailing Weinstock's activities as an outside reviewer of manuscripts submitted for publication in the American Journal of Physics include correspondence with editors of the AmJPhys and responses from authors. Also classified here is similar correspondence pertaining to several book reviews.

The correspondence series is divided into three subseries. Subseries 1 consists of correspondence between Robert Weinstock and former students and colleagues from Oberlin College (1960-2004, undated). Included here are letters sent and received by Mr. Weinstock from former students Margaret Cheney, Peter Molnar, Albert Moyer, Lawrence Holladay, and Edwin Taylor, among others. Weinstock's correspondence with former students primarily consists of requests for recommendations as well as both personal and professional communication after graduation. The subseries also contains correspondence with Oberlin College faculty members and administrators. Included here is a succession of long letters from Weinstock to his hospitalized colleague, David L. Anderson, 1986, which was returned to Weinstock by Anderson's widow, Madeleine. The subseries contains correspondence with other Oberlin colleagues such as William Renfrow, John Scofield, Susan Colley, and college presidents Frederick Starr and Nancy Dye, among others. The correspondence with President S. Frederick Starr is a restricted file and available by permission of the archivist.

Letters to and from W.E. Haisley, 1980-1981, Steven J. Heims, 1980-1982, Ernan McMullin, 1980-1981, and Joseph W. Dauben, editor of Historia Mathematica, 1980-1982, substantiating the debate fomented by Weinstock's objections to Newton's logical reasoning in the Principia, can be found in subseries 2.

Subseries 3 consists of correspondence (sent or received) relating to various projects and research topics in physics (1944-2004, undated). The files are organized by names of individual contacts, or by title and subject of research project (as maintained by Professor Weinstock), and include both projects of Robert Weinstock and of other scholars in the field of physics. Professional correspondents include Margaret Rayner of St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England, 1977-1979, who repeatedly sought Weinstock's assistance in constructing IB Further Mathematics examinations, and Edward M. Kiess, 1988-1989, with whom Weinstock exchanged ideas concerning Kiess' article, "Evolution of chemical potential and energy for an ideal Fermi-Dirac gas.” Please see the Robert Weinstock Papers inventory for a complete listing of individual correspondents and research topics. Weinstock’s writings are filed in Series VIII.