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Jerome, V. J. (Victor Jeremy), 1896-1965. Victor Jeremy Jerome papers, 1923-1967 (inclusive).

Title: Victor Jeremy Jerome papers, 1923-1967 (inclusive).

Correspondence, writings, research notes, biographical material, obituaries and eulogies, and other personal and family papers of Victor J. Jerome, American communist, writer, editor of Political Affairs, and political activist. The bulk of the papers relate primarily to Jerome's activities with the American Communist Party during the period from 1930 to 1965. Of special interest is correspondence relating to Jerome's trial and conviction for violation of the Smith Act (1952); correspondence with Dashiell Hammett relating to "The Committee to Defend V. J. Jerome" (1952); prison correspondence (1953-1957); and correspondence with notable American communists relating to the organization of the Communist Party in the United States. Also of importance are printed and manuscript copies of Jerome's writings, including his two autobiographical novels, A Lantern For Jeremy and The Paper Bridge, as well as his numerous newspaper and periodical contributions. Important correspondents include Herbert Aptheker, Ella Reeve Bloor, W. E. B. DuBois, Howard Fast, Rockwell Kent, Alfred Kreymborg, Archibald MacLeish, Dashiell Hammett, and Paul Robeson.

ArchivalResource: 16.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702200823 View

Ferry, Elinor. Papers, 1944-1988

Title: Elinor Ferry papers, 1944-1988

The papers of Elinor Ferry were compiled between the late 1940's to the early 1960's, during which period Ferry researched the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case. The intended outcome of this research were a book, "The political history of Whittaker Chambers, agent-provocateur," and the creation of a defense for Alger Hiss. Neither was realized.

ArchivalResource: 20 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00051/catalog View

Guide to the Sender Garlin Letters to Gil Green, 1980-1987, undated

Title: Guide to the Sender Garlin Letters to Gil Green, 1980-1987, undated

Sender Garlin (1902-1999) was an author and journalist. This collection consists of letters Sender Garlin wrote between 1980-1987 to Gil Green (1906-1997) a longtime leading member of the Communist Party USA, and at that time, the unofficial leader of its reformist wing.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet (1 box)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_536/tam_536.html View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

Budenz, Louis F. (Louis Francis), 1891-1972. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1942.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1942.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker.

ArchivalResource: 20 items (42 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155898007 View

Earl Browder Papers, 1879-1990

Title: Earl Browder Papers 1879-1990

Papers of the General secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the Party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its President, however he was expelled in 1946 following a debate over Party leadership. Following his expulsion, Browder lectured and wrote about Marxism and represented Soviet writers and publishers for publication in the United States. Collection incluces correspondence/subject files (1879-1970) relating to Marxist philosophy, the workings of the C.P.U.S.A., Browder's role within the Party and to Browder's business ventures as well as legal files (1938-1958); manuscripts (1924-1967) of Browder and others, including Browder's manuscripts for articles, books, memoranda, news releases, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; and memorabilia including personal files and photographs of Browder and his family, and some colleagues. Notable correspondents include Roger Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Bruce Bliven, Rudy Blum, Louis B. Boudin, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Theodore Draper, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William Z. Foster, Joseph Freeman, A.A. Heller, Lotte Jacobi, Alfred Kohlberg, Robert S. Minor, Tom Mooney, Paul and Eslanda Goode Robeson, Anna Rochester, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jack Selford, Joseph R. Starobin, I.F. Stone, John Strachey, Anna Louise Strong, Dirk Jan Struik, Norman Thomas, Harry Frederick Ward, Sumner Welles, and others. Also included is a holograph letter of greeting from Mao Zedong. The collection also includes Browder's personal library and other published materials.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 linear ft.

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Guide to the Gil Green Papers, 1925-1993

Title: Guide to the Gil Green Papers, 1925-1993

Gil Green (1906-1997) was a Communist, a Smith Act defendant, and a prominent figure in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) through 1991. As a youth, he joined the Young Workers League (later the Young Communist League) eventually becoming its national secretary. From 1941-1945 and again from 1966-1968, Green was head of the Communist Party in New York State and also briefly headed the Party in Illinois. Convicted under the Smith Act in 1949, Green was imprisoned from 1956 until 1961. He left the Party in 1991 and helped to found the Committees of Correspondence. The Gil Green Papers date from 1949 to 1993 and include Green's correspondence, writings, and documentation of his political activities. The collection also contains a large amount of FBI files obtained by Green through Freedom of Information Act requests. These files relate primarily to the FBI's investigations of Green's work with the CPUSA and his prosecution under the Smith Act.

ArchivalResource: 14 Linear Feet in 11 record cartons and 7 manuscript boxes.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_095/tam_095.html View

Zeligs, Meyer Aaron. Meyer Aaron Zeligs Papers. 1923-1978.

Title: Meyer Aaron Zeligs papers

The papers cover Dr. Zeligs' research, writing and publication of his book about the Alger Hiss case, Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss (N.Y., The Viking Press, 1967). Zeligs' study approaches the relationship and conflict between Hiss and Chambers from the standpoint of the psychoanalyst.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes, 6 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00092/catalog View

Guide to the Virginia Gardner Papers, 1913-1990

Title: Guide to the Virginia Gardner Papers, 1913-1990

Virginia Gardner (1904-1992) was a journalist, Communist, and biographer of Louise Bryant. She worked at several midwestern newspapers before joining the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> in 1930. Around 1937, she joined the Communist Party and was fired from the <i>Tribune</i> for her union activism in 1940. She then went to work for the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee in New York and was briefly Executive Secretary of the American Council on Soviet Relations in Washington D.C.. She was active in the Citizens Committee for Harry Bridges, and wrote for the <i>Federated Press</i> (a labor news service), <i>The New Masses</i>, <i>Peoples World</i> (the CPUSA West Coast newspaper) in Los Angeles and the <i>Daily Worker</i> in New York where she covered the Rosenberg case in 1953. Gardner wrote <i>The Rosenberg Story</i> in 1954 and <i>Friend and Lover</i>, a Louise Bryant biography in 1982. The collection includes her correspondence, documentation of her political activities, research materials, manuscripts, autobiographical materials, photographs, and articles.

ArchivalResource: 10.25 Linear Feet in 9 record cartons, one manuscript box and one oversize box.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_100/tam_100.html View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Forum Publishers. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1943.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1943.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from Martha Millet, Secretary, and Sender Garlin, for Forum Publishers.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (6 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155889285 View