Papers: Series I, 1919-1988 (inclusive).

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Papers: Series I, 1919-1988 (inclusive).

Biographical materials in this collection include a transcript of an oral history interview of the Durrs, their FBI files, clippings and photographs. There are also Clifford Durr's files on the Eastland hearings; research notes and drafts of Outside the Magic Circle and other writings; speech notes; and materials collected by Durr. Correspondence with family and friends makes up the bulk of the collection. Most of the letters are to Durr. The letters are about social life, U.S. politics, civil rights, McCarthyism, socialism, pacifism, and the South. There are a few letters from or to Clifford Durr or other family and friends. The collection includes letters from Jessica Mitford; Durr's letters to Mitford are housed with Mitford's papers at the University of Texas at Austin.

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