Correspondence of Alger Hiss with Mary Howard Keasbey, 1955-1962.

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Correspondence of Alger Hiss with Mary Howard Keasbey, 1955-1962.

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Correspondence includes 27 letters written by Hiss during 1955 to 1958 and in December 1962, as well as newspaper clippings and a folder of miscellaneous items. Mrs. Keaseley seems to have helped Hiss financially after his release from prison in November, 1954, and several of the letters thank her for her assistance. In addition there are discussions of national events and economic conditions; much about his son Tony and wife Priscilla; permission to travel to Baltimore for his Mother's 88th birthday (parole restriction); release from parole in September, 1955; comments on a Harvard Crimson editorial about him; detailed discussion of a speech he gave at Princeton and the controversy surrounding his appearance; discussion of a book he is writing about aspects of his own case; and his work (in 1962) editing the Holmes-Laski letters.

8 folders.

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Keasbey, Mary Howard,

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Hiss, Alger

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Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School. During the new Deal period he worked as an attorney at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in the Solicitor General's Office at the Justice Department, as Assistant Secretary of State and in other positions in the State Department, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945. He served as Secretary General of the United...