Dorothy McCarthy wrote a book called something like "The language development
of the Child. U. of Minn Press. 1930 ( I believe) and has a chapter in an
earlier edition of the Carmichael *Handbook of Child Development* (1954) which
might reference something she wrote in 1936.
But where did the myth of a first reference to Vygotsky in the US come from????
And after is death?
Vygotsky's article on "the cultural development of the child" appeared in the
Journal of Genetic Psychology in 1929. He and Luria gave a talk (Luria
actually gave it) at the International Congress of Psych in New Haven (is
that in the US? :-) ) in 1929. There are several references to LSV in
Luria's *Nature of Human Conflicts* published in English in 1932. That book
is well worth looking at for lots of reasons, not least of which is that it
contains the earliest more or less comprehensive statement of cultural
historical psychology in English.
There may be earlier materials. Van der veer and Valsiner's book is the best
source for historical materials I know of.
rattle rattle from so cal.
mike