Correspondence and memoranda files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1949-1966 (bulk 1950-1958).

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Correspondence and memoranda files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1949-1966 (bulk 1950-1958).

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Contains correspondence and memoranda files generated by Les Finnegan, executive (research) assistant and principal speech writer for IUE President James B. Carey from 1949 to 1965. Finnegan also served as an executive assistant to Paul Jennings from 1965-1966. The bulk of this series consists of Finnegan's and Carey's outgoing correspondence (office carbon tissues) and staff memoranda for the years 1950-1958, interfiled with a smaller quantity of incoming letters, telegrams, reports, and leaflets. Finnegan answered much of Carey's incoming correspondence thus his office maintained office copies of the outgoing letters which he drafted for Carey's signature. A smaller portion of Secretary-Treasurer Albin Hartnett's administrative correspondence is also contained within the series.

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