Series I contains correspondence and manuscripts from celebrities and other prominent individuals active in the Spanish Civil War and refugee relief. Individuals with particularly extensive materials in this series include Albert Einstein, Harold Ickes, Rockwell Kent, Archibald MacLeish, and Upton Sinclair.
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Adler, Elmer, 1937 June 8, 1938 December 15, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1939 January-March, undated, 3 folders; 2 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.
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Auden, Wystan Hugh, undated, 1 a.l.s.
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Beard, Charles A., 1938 August 15, November 1; 1939 February 8, 3 folders; 2 a.l.s.
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Benedict, Ruth, 1937 October 11, 1938 March 15, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1938 April, 1 t.l.s.
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Benét, William Rose, 1939 February-March 31, 2 folders; 2 a.l.s.
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Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 1939 December 22, 1940 January 4, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Blitzstein, Marc, 1938 January 14-1939 November, 3 folders; 1 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.
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Bliven, Bruce, 1937 January 28, 1 t.l.s.
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Blume, Peter, 1937 February 14, 1 a.l.s.
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Brewster, Dorothy, 1939 March 27, 1 a.l.s.
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Bromfield, Louis, 1939 March 14-1940 January 22, 5 folders; 5 t.l.s.
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Brooks, Van Wyck, 1937 February 8-1940 August 8, 8 folders; 3 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s., 3 postcards, 1 telegram.
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Browder, Earl, 1938 December 23, 1 a.l.s.
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Brown, Slater, 1936 December, 1 t.l.s.
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Buck, Pearl S., 1937 August 1, 1939 September 20, 2 folders; 1 t.l., 1 telegram.
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Bunche, Ralph J., 1938 December 23, 1 t.l.s.
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Bynner, Witter, 1937 August 3, 1 t.l.s.
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Calder, Alexander, 1937 February 17, 1 a.l.s.
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Canby, Henry Seidel, 1939 February 21-1940 August 9, 4 folders; 1 a.l.s., 3 t.l.s.
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Casals, Pablo, 1937 April 30-1939 May 4, undated, 5 folders; 2 a.l.s., 2 telegrams, 1 typescript (copy).
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Cerf, Bennet, 1938 December 16-1939 May 26, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Chase, Roger, 1937 February 9, 1 t.l. (copy of letter to Ernest Hemingway).
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Cooper, Gladys, undated, 1 a.l.s.
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Copland, Aaron, 1937 October 12, 1938 October 7, 2 folders; 2 a.l.s.
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Cowley, Malcolm, 1937 August 19-1939 May 19, 4 folders; 4 t.l.s.
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Cullen, Countee, 1939 March 11-June 1, 4 folders; 2 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.
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Damrosch, Walter, 1937 March 11-1940 February 2, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1939 January 6, 1 t.l.s.
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Davis, Frank Marshall, 1939 May 2, 1 t.m.s.
Poem: "I have talked with death."
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Davis, Stuart, 1937 August 5, undated, 2 folders; 2 a.l.s.
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DeKruif, Paul, 1937 January 14, 1939 March 15, 2 folders; 1 t.l.s., 1 telegram.
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De Rochemont, Louis, 1938 December 19, 1 t.l.s.
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Deutsch, Babette, 1937 February 8, May 26, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Dewey, John, 1937 July 3, 1940 June 7, 2 folders; 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.
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Dietz, Howard, 1938 April 1, 1940 December 11, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Dos Passos, John, 1936 November, 3 folders; 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s., 1 telegram.
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Douglas, Alta, 1939 March, 1 a.m.s.
"Biographical sketch of Aaron Douglas"
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Douglas, Paul H., 1937 May 13-1938 July 22, 5 folders; 5 t.l.s.
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Downes, Olin, 1939 August 29-1940 December 16, 6 folders; 1 a.l.s., 5 t.l.s.
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Draper, Ruth, 1939 October 14, November 6, 2 folders; 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.
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Dreiser, Theodore, 1937 April 12-1939 March 28, 5 folders; 3 t.l.s., 1 t.l. (per secretary), mimeographed speech
Speech: "Spain - July 1938"
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DuBois, W. E. B., 1892 December 5, 1 a.m.s.
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Duffus, R. L., 1938 March 29, 1939 October 12, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Edman, Irwin, 1939 May 3, 1 t.l.s.
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Eichenberg, Fritz, 1938 December 20, 1 a.l.s.
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Einstein, Albert, 1935 October 17-1940 January 29, 13 folders; 11 t.l.s., 2 telegrams.
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Enters, Angna, 1938 April 27, 1 t.l.s.
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Fadiman, Clifton, 1938 September 20, 1 t.l.s.
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Ferber, Edna, 1937 February 6-1938 November 30, 6 folders; 6 t.l.s.
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Fischer, Louis, 1936 December 17-1940 June 2, 10 folders; 1 t.l.s.
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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1940 September 19, 1 a.l.s., 9 t.l.s.
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Fisher, Vardis, 1937 February 15, 1 t.l.s.
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Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1937 May 14, 1939 November 16, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Frank, Waldo, 1940 October 12, undated, 2 folders; 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s., 1 t.m.
"Open Letter to España Peregrina"
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Frankfurter, Felix, 1937 June 4, 1 t.l.s.
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Golschmann, Vladimir, 1939 January 25, 1 t.l.s.
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Gould, Morton, 1938 October 25, 1 t.l.s.
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Graham, Martha, 1937 May 14, 1 a.l.
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Green, Paul, 1937 March 12, 1 a.l.s.
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Green, William, 1946 November 4
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Gregory, Marya Zaturenska (Mrs. Horace), undated
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Gropper, William, 1937 February 12-1939 March 31, 3 folders; 1 a.l.s., 3 t.l.s.
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Gunther, John, 1936 December 31, 1 t.l.s.
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Hampden, Walter, 1939 May 21, 1 a.l.s.
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Hanson, Howard, 1937 September 10, 1 t.l.s.
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Harris, Roy, 1937 October 10, 1 t.l.s.
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Hart, Moss, 1939 May, 1 t.l.s.
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Hawthorne, James, undated, 1 t.m.
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Hellman, Lillian, 1939 April 7-June 26, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1936 February 11-1939 April 21, 8 folders; 1 t.l.s., 6 telegrams
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Herbst, Josephine, 1937 September 1, 1 t.l.s.
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Hicks, Granville, 1937 February 9, 1 t.l.s.
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Holmes, Eugene C., undated, 1 t.m.
"Sterling Brown, A People's Poet")
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Hughes, Langston, 1937 February 9, 1 t.l.s.
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Hull, Cordell, 1937 May 1-1939 March 25, 4 folders; 3 t.l.s., 1 telegram.
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Humphries, Rolfe, 1937 February 9-1939 June 26, 5 folders; 1 a.l.s., 4 t.l.s.
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Hurok, Sol, 1937 July 16, 1 t.l.s.
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Hurst, Fannie, 1937 February 9-1939 May 29, 5 folders; 5 t.l.s.
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Ickes, Harold L., 1939 January 28-1940 December 23, 18 folders; 16 t.l.s., 1 telegram.
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Isaacs, Stanley M., 1938 September 1-1940 August 1, 13 folders; 12 t.l.s.
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Josephson, Matthew, 1937 July 2, 1 t.l.s.
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Kaufman, George S., 1937 August 23-1938 April, 4 folders; 2 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.
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Keller, Helen, 1938 July 3, 1940 June 13, 2 folders; 1 t.l.s.
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Kellogg, Paul, 1940 February 1-May 31, 3 folders; 1 t.l.s.
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Kent, Rockwell, 1937 May 13-1940 January 21, 18 folders; 1 a.l.s., 15 t.l.s., 1 drawing.
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Kirchwey, Freda, 1939 October 2, 1 t.l.s.
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Kirstein, Lincoln, 1937 May 24, 1 t.l.s.
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Koussevitzky, Serge, 1937 September 28-1939 January 24, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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La Farge, Oliver, 1938 December 16, 1 t.l.s.
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Lamont, Corliss, 1939 January 27, 1 t.l.s.
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Lankes, J. J., 1937 February 22, 1937 March 12, 2 folders; 2 a.l.s.
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Laski, Harold J., 1939 May 17, 1 a.m.s.
(Message to Madison Square Garden Meeting)
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Lawrence, Gertrude, 1938 April 13, 1939 May 29, 2 folders
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Lehman, Herbert H., 1938 July 1, 1 t.l.s.
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Lerner, Max, 1938 March 17-1940 January 19, 4 folders; 4 t.l.s.
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Lescaze, William, 1939 March 13, 1 t.l.s.
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1937 February 10, 1939 June 6, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Macdonald, Dwight, 1937 October 23, 1 t.l.s.
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McFee, William, 1938 October 21, 1 t.l.s.
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MacLeish, Archibald, 1937 January-1940 October 1, undated, 32 folders; 31 t.l.s., 1 telegram.
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Malraux, Andre, 1937 March 16, 1 mimeographed speech
Artists' and Writers Ambulance Corps Banquet
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Malta, Albert, 1937 February 23, 1 t.l.s.
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Mann, Erika, 1939 March 1, 1 t.l.s.
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Mann, Klaus, 1939 May 18, 1 t.l.s.
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Mann, Thomas, 1938 April 6-1940 June 9, 8 folders; 6 t.l.s., 2 t.l., 1 t.m.
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Mason, Daniel Gregory, 1937 October 13, 1939 March 11, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Menninger, Karl, 1939 March 16, 1 t.l.s.
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Meredith, O. Burgess, 1937 March 2-December 16, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Moore, Douglas, 1939 March 13, 1 t.l.s.
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Moore, Grace (Parera), 1938 April 27, 1 t.l.s.
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Morgenthau, Henry, 1939 April 17, 1 t.l.s.
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Morton, Helen., 1938 July, 1 t.m.
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Mumford, Lewis, 1937 February 25-1938 April 14, undated, 4 folders; 4 a.l.s.
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Muni, Paul, 1937 April 10, 1 t.l.s.
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Nathan, George Jean, 1939 October 11, 1 a.l.s.
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Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1937 May 5-1940 December 26, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Norris, Kathleen, 1938 April, 1 t.l.s.
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Odets, Clifford, 1939 January 16, 1 a.l.s.
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Olivier, Laurence, 1939 June, 1 a.l.s.
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Oppenheimer, Robert, 1939 March 22, 1 t.l.s.
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Ormandy, Eugene, 1937 December 2, 1939 February 2, 2 folders; 1 t.l.s., 1 t.l. (copy).
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Parker, Dorothy, 1938-1939 March, 3 folders; 1 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.
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Parsons, Edward L., 1939 July 8, 1 t.l.s.
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Patterson, Robert Allen, undated, 1 a.l.s.
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Paul, Elliot, 1937 October 30, 1 t.l.s.
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Pearson, Drew, 1938 April 16, 1 t.l.s.
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Piston, Walter, 1937 October 23, 1939 January 16, 2 folders; 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.
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Poore, Charles, 1939 March 11, undated, 2 folders; 1 t.l.s.
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Popini, Eloise McCaskill, undated, 1 t.m.
"Columbus the Arctic Explorer"
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Rayburn, Sam, 1937 May 7, 1 t.l.s.
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Reiner, Fritz, 1938 February 5, 22, 2 folders; 1 t.l.s.
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Rice, Elmer, 1937 Feburary 23, August 3, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Riegger, Wallingford, 1937 November 21, 1939 February 15, 2 folders; 2 a.l.s.
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Riesel, Victor, 1939-05-23, 1 t.l.s.
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Robinson, Edward G., 1938 May 6, 1939 April 27, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Rodgers, Richard, 1938 March 27, 1 t.l.s.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1938 November 18, 1 t.l.(copy)
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Rukeyser, Muriel, 1937 November, 1 t.l.s.
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Scherman, Harry, 1940 September 27
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Schnabel, Artur, 1938 April 4
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Schreiber, Georges, 1937 February 15
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Segovia, Andres, 1938 March 19
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Sessions, Roger, 1937-09-20
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Shapley, Harlow, 1939 March 14, 1940 April 16, 2 folders
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Sheean, Vincent, 1939 June 30-December 23, undated, 7 folders
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Siegmeister, Ellie, 1938 October 12
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Simonson, Les, 1939 March 13
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Sinclair, Upton, 1937 January 27-1939 June 30, 40 folders; 1 a.l.s., 36 t.l.s., 2 telegrams
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Steig, William, 1937 February, undated, 3 folders; 3 a.l.s.
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Steiglitz, Alfred, 1938 October 11, 1939 April 15, 2 folders; 2 a.l.s.
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Stokowski, Leopold, 1939 January 12, March 30, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Strong, Anna Louise, 1937 June 16, 1938 March 12, undated, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Taggard, Genevieve, circa 1939, 1 a.l.s.
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Tamiris, Helen, 1939 November 9, 1 a.l.s.
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Taubman, Howard , 1939 May 18, 1 t.l.s.
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Taylor, Myron C., 1939 October 16, 1 t.l.s.
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Thomas, Norman, 1937 March 10-1939 May 20, 5 folders; 4 t.l.s.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1937 September 9, 1 t.l.s.
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Thurber, Helen (Mrs. James), 1939 December 28, 1 a.l.s.
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Thurber, James, 1940, 1 t.l. (copy)
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Tibbett, Lawrence, 1939 March 23, 1 t.l.s.
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Toller, Ernst, 1937 July 13, 1938 May 23, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1939 January 31, April 22, 2 folders; 1 a.l.s., 1 telegram.
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Várese, Edgar, 1937 September 1, 1 t.l.s.
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Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1937 July 13, 1939 March 15, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Wagner, Robert F., 1938 April 18-1939 February 24, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Wallace, Henry A., 1939 January 4, 1 t.l.s.
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Weber, Max, 1937 February-1939 March 22, 4 folders; 4 a.l.s.
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Weill, Kurt, 1938 November 3-1939 May 18, 3 folders; 3 t.l.s.
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Welles, Orson, 1939 March 3, July 27, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Welles, Sumner , 1938 June 2, 1 t.l.s.
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Wilder, Thornton, 1938 October 22-1940 January 9, 4 folders; 3 a.l.s., 1 a.n.s.
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Wise, Stephen S., 1937 March 20-1940 January 22, 4 folders; 4 t.l.s.
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Woolcott, Alexander, 1936 December 28, 1939 February 24, 2 folders; 2 t.l.s.
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Young, Art, 1939 July 29, 1 a.l.s.
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Zukofsky, Louis, 1937 February 8, 1 a.l.s.
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Zweig, Stefan, 1939 February 26, 1 t.l.s.