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Frances Perkins Collection MS 0766., ca. 1933-, 1976-

Title: Frances Perkins Collection ca. 1933- 1976-

Perkins, Frances (Fannie Coralie), 1880-1965; Social worker, government official, and university professor. The collection chiefly consists of books, newspaper and journal articles, and published and unpublished biographical studies concerning Perkins' life and work. Also includes a microfiche transcript of an oral history interview of her conducted by Columbia University between 1951-1955, several letters by her, a 1937 bibliography of writings by or about Perkins, and material relating to a postage stamp issued in her honor and a film about her.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes; (10 linear in.)

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Harry Levin papers

Title: Harry Levin papers

Papers of Harry Levin, American literary critic, scholar of modernism and comparative literature, and the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature atHarvard University.

ArchivalResource: 41 linear feet (34 boxes)

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Hugh Hawkins Papers, 1914-2012, 1950-1990

Title: Hugh Hawkins Papers 1914-2012 1950-1990

Personal and professional papers of an Amherst College professor of History and American Studies. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, committee records, course materials, general printed matter, and audiotapes.

ArchivalResource: 8 records storage boxes, 1 oversize box; (9 linear ft.)

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Hawkins, Hugh. Frances Perkins Collection, ca. 1933- 1976-

Title: Frances Perkins Collection, ca. 1933- 1976-

This collection consists of an oral history interview, correspondence, a bibliography, subject files, and biographical information relating to Frances Perkins (1880-1965). Primary sources in the collection include a transcript (on microfiche) of an oral history interview of her conducted by the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University between 1951-1955 and four pieces of correspondence written by or addressed to Perkins. The latter items consist of an undated note that she wrote "To FDR" while she was the United States Secretary of Labor, 1933-1945, advising him about the content of a Thanksgiving proclamation; a letter to Perkins from Roosevelt (Dec. 1938) concerning a deportation pardon that she had requested; a letter by her to Hugh Hawkins of Amherst College (Sept. 1961) accompanied by a recollection that Perkins wrote for him concerning Mount Holyoke College President Mary Emma Woolley and the selection of a man to succeed her in that office; and a letter to "Perk" (May 1963) from a Mount Holyoke classmate, Charlotte Leavitt Gilpatric, chiefly concerning other members of their class of 1902. The remainder of this collection primarily consists of biographical information about Perkins dating from 1976 to the present. This material includes books, newspaper and journal articles, and published and unpublished biographical studies, sketches and notes. Also included in the collection is a bibliography of writings by or about Perkins prepared by the United States Department of Labor Library in 1937, and several subject files. These files contain material relating to a postage stamp of Perkins issued in 1980 and information about a film and a play based on her life.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.10 linear in.

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