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Letterbooks of Kelley for the years 1953-1963.

Correspondence, memoranda, photographs, manuscripts, lists, legal and financial documents, and printed materials of Simon. The personal and business papers include correspondence with authors, inscribed photographs of authors, editorial files, files for his special art, photography, and music projects, correspondence files relating to Simon and Schuster, Inc., personal and family correspondence, documents, and photographs. Correspondents include Irving Berlin, Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph E. Davies, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Philippe Halsman, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Kenneth Roberts, Arthur Schnitzler, Jerome Weidman, and Sloan Wilson.

Correspondence, pamphlets, reports, surveys, and maps relating to taxicab and motorbus transportation in various cities, chiefly in the United States.

Speeches and writings of Prendergast, chiefly political in nature. Also, three microfilm reels of papers concerning the Catholic Charities Case.

Papers concerning the Catholic Charities Investigation.

Printed material and some correspondence related to low rental housing and tenements in New York City. Included are business records concerning the rental and maintenance of tenements.

Two volumes of letterpress copies of the business correspondence of the New York City firm of Eno, Roberts, Rhodes & Co. The letters are concerned chiefly with real estate operations and largely in New York City. There are altogether some 615 leaves with an average of one letter to a leaf. Most of the letters are signed either Amos R. Eno (father) or Amos F. Eno (son), but appear to have been written by clerks of the firm.

The records of W.R. Grace & Co. cover the rise of the Grace shipping business from 1864 until World War II. The early correspondence concerns all aspects of the shipping business in New York and South America, mining interests in Peru and Chile, the railroad in Costa Rica, the inter-ocean canal planned for Nicaragua, and political interests throughout Central and South America. There are letter books, correspondence, and scrapbooks of clippings for all aspects of W.R. Grace's career. There are minute books and other documents for more than 50 subsidiary companies owned by W.R. Grace & Co. or by family members. The papers of Joseph Peter Grace (1872-1950) continue the business, family, and philanthropic activities until 1942. There are also 20 reels of motion picture film about the Grace Co. South American interests in the 1950s.

Correspondence of the home office with agents in other ports and captains of vessels, bills of lading, receipts, orders, clearance papers, and other business documents.