This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
The collection consists of 38 letters from Bessie to his friend, Loretta Frances Fokes Lish, about his life, political views, current writing, and Gordon Lish.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Alvah Cecil Bessie letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Source of acquisition--Gotham Book Mart. Method of acquisition--Purchase 297 (Duplicates); Date of acquisition--07/01/88. Accession number--M-88-07-01.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed HR 09/22/88.
Novelist, screenwriter, and veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War. Bessie was blacklisted as a screenwriter in 1950 as one of the Hollywood Ten.
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