John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939.

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John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612376944

Contains correspondence of Reed, the bulk with his Harvard classmate, Edward Eyre Hunt; poems, plays, and articles by Reed; and letters about him after his death. Included are manuscripts by Reed on radicalism at Harvard; letters he wrote to Hunt from jail after his arrest for working with the International Workers of the World to support the silk workers' strike in Paterson, N.J. in 1913; material on the pageant about the strike performed by the silk workers in Madison Square Garden in 1913; a letter from Louise Bryant to his mother written three days after his death; letters concerning his papers, the biography of him by Granville Hicks, and the activities of the Harvard Alumni John Reed Committee to raise funds for a portrait of Reed by Robert Hallowell, and the Hicks biography; copies of Metropolitan Magazine with articles by Reed; and pamphlets, photos, and clippings on Reed and the labor movement.

3 boxes (l linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard Alumni John Reed Committee.

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Bryant, Louise, 1885-1936

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Louise Bryant was born on December 5, 1885, in San Francisco, California. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1909, she began her career in journalism as an illustrator, and later the society editor, for the Spectator newspaper in Portland, Oregon. In 1916, Bryant moved to New York City and married the journalist John Reed. After reporting on the war in France for the Bell Syndicate in 1917, Bryant and Reed traveled to Russia and witnessed the revolution there. Her reporting on Rus...

Hallowell, Robert Canby.

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Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982

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Hicks was a literary critic, novelist and teacher (1901-1982). He graduated from Harvard University, studied for the ministry and joined the Communist Party in 1934. He was the literary editor of the New masses and applied Marxist criticism to American literature in his writings. He broke with the Party in 1939 and in the 1950s testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities against the Party. Arvin (1900-1963) was also educated at Harvard University and taught at Smith College fr...

Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), 1885-1953

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Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953), Harvard graduate, war correspondent, and author, was a member of the Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry, Federated American Engineering Societies in 1920. He served as secretary of the U.S. Coal Commission from 1922 to 1923, and was secretary of the President's Emergency Committee on Employment from 1930 to 1931. From 1930 to 1933, he served as secretary of the President's Research Committee on Recent Social Trends. From the description of Hun...

Reed, John, 1887-1920

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Reed (Harvard, A.B. 1910) was an American journalist and revolutionary. He joined the staff of The Masses in 1913, was a war correspondent in Mexico and Europe for Metropolitan Magazine, publicist for the Russian Revolution, and head of the Communist Labor Party. From the description of John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612376944 From the guide to the John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939., (Houghton Library, Harvard College L...

International Workers of the World.

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