Papers of James Rives Childs, [manuscript]

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Papers of James Rives Childs, [manuscript]

1942-1966

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Letters, telegrams, and cards of condolence on the death of his wife, Georgina De Brylkine Childs, from United States, French, and other friends. Also included are a draft of his memoirs entitled "Between two worlds," a novelette, "The Survivors," and 2 U.S. State Dept. reports on the Dept. and the North African Invasion during W.W.II. In several letters of A.L. Paddock to Childs, 1965, there are comments on Paddock's meetings with Sir Wiston Churchill, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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