Summary Information
Leland Stowe Papers
1925-1969
U.S. Mss 99AF; PH U.S. Mss 99AF; Micro 2035
15.0 c.f. (26 archives boxes, 4 card boxes, 11 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder), 462 photographs, and 2 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Stowe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II correspondent, radio broadcaster, lecturer, and educator, including personal papers as well as documents related to his articles, books, lectures, news stories, and broadcasts. Personal papers include biographical and genealogical information, interviews, correspondence with friends and family, photographs, and a copy of his FBI file and lengthy refutation of its allegations. There are also many love letters to and from his second wife. Other correspondence include letters from Max Ascoli, Carroll Binder, Alois Dersoe, Ralph Edwards, A.R. Holcombe, Wesley Maurer, Helen Rogers Reid, Dinah and Vincent Sheean, and DeWitt Wallace, as well as many other individuals of interest for their autograph value. The photographs include formal and informal portraits, as well as documentation of his career activities, particularly his coverage of the Greek-Albanian front during World War II. Pertaining to Stowe's career as a newspaperman are scrapbooks of clippings from the New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Daily News and loose clippings, copies of his post-war column for the New York Post Syndicate, and some draft stories. Records of freelance magazine work include draft and printed articles submitted to Argosy, The Reporter, and Reader's Digest. Radio scripts include wartime commentaries for ABC and post-war analyses sponsored by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union that were broadcast on MBS. The collection includes limited drafts of published books, but there are reviews and reader correspondence for all titles. Supplementing the writings are unpublished memoirs and an autobiographical novel and many notebooks and journals about his coverage of the Spanish Civil War; the Russo-Finnish War; the Greek-Albanian front, 1939-1940; post-war Europe; and his travels as a writer for Reader's Digest. This section includes interviews with Aristide Briand, Gamal Abdel Nasser, John Pershing, Raymond Poincaré, the Shah of Iran, and Walter Ulbrich. Other documented aspects of his career include course outlines and teaching materials from his tenure at the Journalism School of the University of Michigan, transcripts and outlines for public lectures, and reports (1950 to 1954) prepared as a director of Radio Free Europe. Of special note is a group of four photographs of Charles Lindbergh, with Stowe and other individuals, taken in Paris in 1928. One of these images showing Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis has been autographed.
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Biography/History
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, lecturer, and educator Leland Stowe was born in Southbury, Connecticut, on November 10, 1899. He received his A.B. degree from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, in 1921. He began his long career in mass communications in 1921 as a reporter on the Worcester (MA) Telegram, transferring to the New York Herald in 1922. As a staff reporter for the Telegram, Stowe was assigned to do a feature story on a woman dentist. Dr. Ruth F. Bernot. He persuaded the publicity-shy dentist to give him the interview he needed for his story. On September 27, 1924, Dr. Bernot became his wife. The Stowes became the parents of Bruce B. and Alan.
In 1926 Stowe became Paris correspondent for the New York Herald. Although stationed in Paris, he also had assignments for that newspaper all over Europe. For his reporting on the 1929 Reparations Conference in Paris, Stowe won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize. From 1936 to 1939 he served as a roving correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune in South America and he also covered national U.S. politics.
In 1939 when World War II began, Stowe's editor at the Herald Tribune felt that he was too old to adequately cover the war from the front. Consequently the thirty-nine-year-old reporter transferred to the Chicago Daily News; and from 1939 to 1943 he covered the war for that newspaper, sending reports from every major front--Finland, Norway, the Balkans, Greece, China, Indian Burma, and Russia. During his four years overseas during World War II, Stowe reported from 44 countries and served with the armies and air forces of seven nations. From 1944 to 1945 he was a commentator and war correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company. Stowe's pre-war and wartime experiences became the subject of four books: Nazi Means War (1933), No Other Road to Freedom (1941), They Shall Not Sleep (1944), and While Time Remains (1946). (He later published Target: You [1949], Conquest by Terror [1952], Crusoe of Lonesome Lake [1957] and The Last Great Frontiersman [1982].
After the war Stowe worked as a freelance writer for various magazines including Harper's, Look,Reader's Digest, The Nation, This Week, and Esquire. He also continued to give public lectures as he had since 1934. In 1947 he broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting Network, where he was sponsored by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union. This was the first occasion in which a labor union was the sponsor of a radio program. In 1950 Stowe briefly served as foreign editor of The Reporter, but resigned because of conflict with the magazine's editorial policy. From 1952 to 1954 Stowe directed the News and Information Service of Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany. In 1954 he also took charge of research coordination for RFE.
Shortly after divorcing his first wife, on June 17, 1952 Stowe married Theodora Calaus (1912-1994), formerly of Bucharest and Budapest, whom he had met while a war correspondent in 1940.
In 1955 Stowe began what he later termed the ideal double life, combining a half year of teaching at the University of Michigan and half a year as a roving staff writer for the Reader's Digest. His annual research assignments subsequently took him and Theodora to South America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Orient. At Michigan he pioneered a foreign assignment project in which his journalism students made an intensive on-campus study of another country. These projects involved interviews with foreign students and a lengthy report on their chosen country's problems and culture. Upon his retirement from teaching in 1969 the University of Michigan organized a Leland Stowe Day program in which many of his former students participated. Stowe retired from the Reader's Digest in 1976.
In addition to his Pulitzer Prize, other professional honors included an Overseas Press Club award for his coverage of the German seizure of Norway and medals from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and from Sigma Delta Chi for his distinguished coverage of World War II. He also received two honorary degrees, one from Wesleyan University in 1944 and one from Hobart College in 1948. In 1945 he received an honorary M.A. from Harvard University. In 1930 he received the Legion of Honor of France and in 1945 he was decorated with the Greek Military Cross. Leland Stowe died on January 16, 1994.
Scope and Content Note
The Stowe Papers are organized as BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL AND GENERAL PAPERS, CORRESPONDENCE, SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, DIARIES AND NOTES, and TEACHING FILES. The papers held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin represent only a portion of what once constituted Stowe's papers. Over the years Stowe deposited portions of his papers at several archival institutions in addition to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, photocopying many items so that several institutions (as well as many friends and family) received copies of some part of the whole. The collection in Madison, which is probably the largest Stowe collection, suggests no consistent pattern about the way in which the material was distributed. Some portions of the collection at SHSW are represented by original documents; some are represented only by photocopies. It is possible that other institutions may hold originals of the documentation for which SHSW has only copies. In addition, internal evidence suggests that portions of the collection may have been lost prior to donation to SHSW.
Stowe himself assembled much of his collection into packets, some organized by name, some by thematic subject, about which he prepared handwritten or typed comments. Many of the packets have been disassembled in the archives in order to improve the overall arrangement of the collection and eliminate duplication, but all of the explanatory notes have been retained because of their biographical and personal insights.
The BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL AND GENERAL PAPERS series consists of alphabetically-arranged background information about Stowe as well as papers that were not appropriate for the other series in the collection. Included are anecdotes, awards, biographical clippings, memorabilia, transcripts of interviews, replies to biographical research queries, photographs, and travel information. The photographs include formal and informal portraits of Stowe and his second wife, travel pictures, and snapshots related to his career as a journalist and public speaker. Of special interest among the last named group are the wartime photographs. The general career papers consist of one folder of reports for Radio Free Europe and one folder of editorial reports for Max Ascoli of The Reporter.
The largest section of the biographical miscellany, several packets that Stowe entitled “Between the Crossfires,” concerns the FBI file that was created about him presumably because of his reporting on the Spanish Civil War and positive statements about the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II. Under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act Stowe obtained a copy of his file, and he attempted to place a lengthy correction (presumably the “Between the Crossfires” manuscript) in the official FBI file. Ultimately, when this effort failed, Stowe authorized the destruction of the official FBI file. This section of the collection also includes correspondence with FBI and National Archives staff, photocopied pages from Stowe's FBI file, explanatory narratives, and documents and correspondence gathered to support his position.
The CORRESPONDENCE series is arranged as general and special files. The general correspondence is chronologically arranged; the special correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name or topic. The general correspondence includes many letters and telegrams from fellow professionals, friends and former students, radio listeners and readers of his books and articles, as well as some outgoing letters. The early correspondence is quite spotty, but it includes several letters to and from Editor A.R. Holcombe about his stories in the Herald Tribune and from Carroll Binder about his stories for the Daily News. Later there are letters to and from Max Ascoli of The Reporter. There are also letters from Harold Peat and Helen Rogers Reid on professional matters. Several prominent individuals who appeared in his news stories wrote to thank Stowe for his reportage: they include Walter Lippmann, Raymond Poincare, Theodore Roosevelt, Hjalmar Schacht, Herbert Bayard Swope, Arthur Vandenberg, Sumner Welles, and Owen Young. Additional interesting letters in the prewar correspondence come from Leon Fraser and Gene Tunney. Carbons of some outgoing letters are included, one of the most interesting being a letter to Marvin H. McIntyre, a member of the White House staff, which presents a vivid picture of the response of Americans abroad to the early days of the New Deal.
During the 1940's Stowe's general correspondence becomes increasingly dominated by letters from the general public about his writings and broadcasts. In addition, Stowe often sent inscribed copies of his books to many public figures, and he received correspondence in response. As a result, there are letters (although they are chiefly of autograph value) from individuals such as Dean Acheson, Cecil B. DeMille, Paul H. Douglas, Dwight Eisenhower, Clifton Fadiman, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Oveta Culp Hobby, H.V. Kaltenborn, Trygve Lie, David Lilienthal, Arthur Schlesinger, Robert Sherwood, Henry Wallace, Wendell Willkie, and Darryl F. Zanuck. Stowe sometimes addressed long letters to other journalists or prominent individuals about matters of public policy, but the responses he received are also primarily of autograph value. Among the correspondents of this type are Stewart Alsop, Turner Catledge, Walter Cronkite, Milton Eisenhower, John Gunther, Edward P. Morgan, Edward R. Murrow, and Raymond Gram Swing. Stowe's later correspondence tends to be dominated by letters of recommendation written by him for former students or letters to aid other asssociates.
The special correspondence includes both personal and professional mail. The personal files include wartime letters to his first wife and his two sons and a separate file of letters to his parents and siblings. The letters to his wife contain detailed information about his reporting during the early years of World War II, while the Stowe family letters also provide strong coverage of events in his earlier career. A third set of personal correspondence with his second wife Theodora (“Dollika”) is arranged separately in the speeches and writings series because of its extent and because it formed the nucleus of his abortive “D Book” writing project.
Several boxes of the special correspondence are devoted to Stowe's correspondence with the Reader's Digest and its editors, 1951-1988. This correspondence concerns article proposals, story development, reports on potential authors that he met, descriptions of international locales visited for the Digest, and general discussions of the editorial process. Most notable is his correspondence with DeWitt Wallace, mainly 1951-1982, but there are also substantial files concerning Hobart “Hobe” Lewis, president and editor-in-chief, and Executive Editor Walter “Bun” Mahoney. Other segregated Digest files concern The Last Great Frontiersman and an article about Hungarian refugees. Some additional correspondence with the Digest is filed in the TEACHING MATERIALS series, as Stowe used these experiences to instruct his students about freelance journalism.
Other important files pertain to his friends Harold “Barney” Graves, Curtiss Johnson, and Morrell “Bo” Heald, Wesley Maurer of the University of Michigan Journalism school; Dinah and Vincent Sheean, Adlai Stevenson, and former student Karsten Prager. Also segregated with the special correspondence is a folder of reports or annual Christmas letters describing travel during his retirement years, and the congratulatory letters he received for his Pulitzer Prize in 1930.
Stowe's SPEECHES AND WRITINGS are organized alphabetically by genre as articles, books, lectures, news stories, poetry, and radio scripts, as well as files on the “D-book.” Stowe began contributing articles to magazines on a freelance basis as early as 1927. Over the years he contributed to a number of serials, but only regularly to Argosy (from 1943 to 1947), The Reporter (from 1949 to 1950), and the Reader's Digest. The collection includes manuscript and printed articles. The articles are arranged together chronologically except for his Readers Digest work. The latter include published articles and manuscripts for both published and unpublished stories, allowing the researcher to examine the way in which the Digest abridged his submissions. Also of interest is Stowe's essay, “The Courage to Grow Old,” and a file of book reviews.
Documentation of Stowe's books is disappointing. Of his published writings, the collection includes draft materials only for The Last Great Frontiersman and Crusoe of Lonesome Lake, although there are extensive clipped reviews of all his titles. The unpublished writings are of considerable interest, nevertheless. In addition to “What is a Frenchman?” which Stowe penned during the 1930s based on his observations as the Herald Tribune's Paris correspondent, the collection also includes draft chapters for a memoir that was left unfinished when World War II began and “Newspaperman,” a novel based on his early journalistic experiences apparently written about 1930. The memoirs are arranged by chapter number, but inconsistencies in the internal narrative suggest that some chapters may actually represent multiple drafts of the same material.
Almost an entire cubic foot of the collection refers just to Stowe's abortive “D-book.” These files are actually the personal letters of Leland and Dollika on which the book was to be based, as well as notes, Dollika's amusing quotes, stories, and even her “morning messages” to her husband. About the book itself there are only a few draft chapters here entitled “Tell Me That You Love Me,” although an additional short work also filed here, “The Wooings and Doings of Adam and Eve: A Fancy-Full Chronicle,” presumably also relates to their love story.
The D-Book correspondence is arranged in two parts: Dollika's letters to Stowe and Stowe's letters to her. Of her correspondence, the most interesting are the letters written from Bucharest during the period 1944 to 1947. Fortunately Stowe transcribed these letters for the book project, as no originals are included. Dollika's post war correspondence is less extensive, and none of these letters have been transcribed. Because Stowe was more often away from home, his letters are more extensive, dating from 1940, when they first met, to 1987. Most of his letters are present as either typed or handwritten originals, with only occasional handwritten items also represented by transcripts. Despite their relative volume, the Stowes' letters are somewhat disappointing to the general researcher. While they present an intimate portrait of their life together, the letters are largely concerned with their relationship. This contrasts with his letters to his first wife and to his parents which contain many informative details about his career experiences. Nevertheless, the Stowes' story ranks as one of the great love stories, certainly of interest for its fervor and long duration.
Stowe began presenting his ideas and observations about world affairs on the lecture circuit during the 1930s, and the collection includes advertising brochures, audience comments, contracts, and itineraries that provide good evidential documentation of this aspect of his career. Unfortunately, the speeches themselves are primarily documented by the typed outline cards from which he spoke, and there are only two folders of full transcripts in the collection.
Of his news dispatches and stories, the collection includes many clipping scrapbooks. The early scrapbooks include all of the stories he wrote for the press whether they appeared under his byline, a pseudonym, or without attribution and regardless of whether they appeared in domestic or foreign papers. The earliest scrapbooks are consequently most valuable because they identify much career work that would otherwise not be known. (Because the Herald Tribune and Daily News are elsewhere available on microfilm, these scrapbooks have not been scheduled for microfilming at this time.) Loose clippings provide coverage for the periods not covered by the scrapbooks, but it is unlikely that this section is complete. In addition, the collection includes files of manuscript news stories. The dispatch files are very incomplete, but they include a notable series of articles about Spain, 1931-1939, not found elsewhere in the collection, several stories about corruption in the Chiang Kai-Shek regime in 1941 that were suppressed by the American government, galleys of his frontline coverage of the Russian army in 1942, and numerous mimeographed releases distributed by the New York Post Syndicate, 1944-1949. The last named are a mix of eyewitness description and opinion about conditions in post-war Europe.
In 1931 Stowe began broadcasting by radio from Europe. The collection includes annotated manuscript and/or mimeographed copies of these broadcasts, as well as copies of the broadcasts he made during the Second World War. From 1944 to 1945 Stowe broadcast for ABC; in 1947 he transferred to the Mutual Broadcasting System. About his program of news commentary which was the first such union-sponsored program, the collection includes two folders of annotated scripts dating from 1947.
NOTES AND JOURNALS. This series includes documentation in several formats: notebooks, typed journal pages, and loose notes. Much of the series consists of the small notebooks that Stowe carried during his overseas assignments and travel. Sometimes the volumes contain rough handwritten notes arranged in chronological order. Other notebooks are more diary-like, containing brief, readable narratives. (The reader is warned that the pencilled entries are somewhat smeared and difficult to decipher.) It is likely that Stowe himself thought of the notebooks in two categories, for in referring to his 1938 notebook about the Pan American Conference, he informed SHSW that the “main” (presumably the notebook of a true diary like-character) was missing.
The chronologically arranged notebooks cover five time periods: 1915 during which Stowe recorded life at his parents' home, Mulberry Farm, in one volume; nine volumes about the Spanish Civil War; a large number of books about his reporting of World War II, particularly 1939-1942; 19 volumes about post war Europe that were used for his freelance writings, 1945-1949; and the remainder concerning his travels for Reader's Digest, 1955-1983.
The notebooks of the narrative type relate to typed journal pages in the series, accounts that are sometimes referred to internally as “Leland Stowe's Journal.” It is not clear what Stowe meant by the “journal” designation because of its fragmentary representation here. This journal seemed to have been of a composed literary character, similar, but by no means identical to his published wartime books which are also journal-like in character: No Other Road to Freedom and They Shall Not Sleep. These books also overlap with the notebooks in subject and date, but the typed journal for this period is much less complete in its chronological coverage than the notebooks, primarily dating from the years 1928 to 1931 when Stowe was in Paris and the years 1939 to1940 when he was covering the Russo-Finnish War and the Greek and Albanian front. The typed journal pages dating from the early 1930s, which are clearly identified as a journal, are of special interest because they include extended comments on interviews with world notables in Paris such as Aristide Briand, General John Pershing, and Raymond Poincaré. Coverage within the loose notes in this series is spotty, with those about the Spanish Civil War and interviews of Gamal Abdel Nasser and General Pershing being most important.
The TEACHING MATERIALS consist of information on awards, honors, and the personal library donated to the University of Michigan, as well as instructional materials. The latter, which are partially arranged by course number, includes lecture outlines, handouts, sample student papers, and student evaluations. Most useful is the material about Stowe's innovative “foreign assignment” and the packets of correspondence and draft materials that he assembled to illustrate typical experiences of a freelance writer.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Leland and Theodora Stowe, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969-1994. Accession Number: MCHC69-050, MCHC70-066, MCHC71-004, MCHC72-134, MCHC75-139, MCHC76-009 8 -045, MCHC78-024, MCHC79-019 8 117, MCHC80-123, M85-429, M87-505, M88-069, -176, 8-363, M89-245, M90-162, M92-085 8 310, and M94-066
Processed by Eleanor Niermann, 1969 and by Carolyn Mattern, 2001.
Contents List
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U.S. Mss 99AF
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Series: Biographical and General Papers
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Anecdotes/quotes
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Award and honors
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Biographical fragments
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Micro 2035
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Biographical clippings, 1930-1989
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U.S. Mss 99AF
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FBI files (“Between the Crossfires”)
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Correspondence, 1979-1986
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General papers
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Family material and genealogy
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Ideas
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Memorabilia
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Miscellany
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Photographs
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LS portraits
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PH Box
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LS and Dollika
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LS career photographs
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General
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Anglo American Press Association
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Spain, 1938
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Wartime photo album, 1937-1942
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PH Box
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Wartime photoprints, 1940
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PH Box
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Radio Free Europe album
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PH U.S. Mss 99AF (3)
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Charles Lindbergh in Paris, 1927
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PH U.S. Mss 99AF
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Travel pictures
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PH Box
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9
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General
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PH Box
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10
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Aegean trip, 1930
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PH Box
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11
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Azores/Peru album, 1938-1939
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U.S. Mss 99AF
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Radio Free Europe reports, 1950-1954
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Reporter reports, 1949
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Travels
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Series: Correspondence
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General
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1921-1935
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1936-1945
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1946-1960
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1961-1975
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1976-1988, n.d.
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Special
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Birthday surprise, 1960
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Bryant, Gail Ann, 1980-1987
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Derso, Alois
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Correspondence (Some illustrated)
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Oversize limited edition prints
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My 1929 Report
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Derso's Histoire, 1931
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Tower of Babel, 1931
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Days of Hope and Glory, 1932
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Draper, Alfred and John Austin, 1976-1981
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Edwards, Ralph, 1957
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Family (First wife 8 sons), 1934, 1939-1989
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Farson, Negley, 1955-1960
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Graves, Harold, 1921-1989, n.d.
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Heald, Morrell, 1975-1989, n.d.
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Hersh, Robert, 1985-1988
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Johnson, Curtiss, 1985-1988
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Maurer, Wesley, 1954-1969
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Michigan
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Parents and siblings, 1920-1989
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Prager, Karsten
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Pulitzer Prize congratulations, 1930
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Radio Free Europe, 1952-1954
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Random House re Conquest by Terror, 1951-1952
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Reader's Digest
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General
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1951-1966
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1967-1988, n.d.
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Birnie, William A.H., 1963-1976
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Hungarian refugees, 1960-1961
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Lamb book (Last of the Frontiersman), 1964, 1978-1985, n.d.
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Lewis, Hobart, 1952-1976
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Mahoney, Walter, 1955-1987
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Palmer, Paul, 1951-1973
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Wallace, DeWitt
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1951-1970
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1971-1987
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State Historical Socieity of Wisconsin
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Sheean, Vincent 8 Dinah, 1949-1986
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Stevenson, Adlai, 1952-1960
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Stock, Raymond, 1983-1986
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Study of Contemporary Belief, Center for, 1987-1989
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Travel letters, 1960, 1969-1985
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Weller, George, 1973-1981
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Wesleyan University
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“What's Wrong With American Women?” response, 1948
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Wright, Robin, 1983-1984
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Series: Speeches and Writings
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Articles and miscellaneous freelance writings
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General
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College 8 early writing, 1921-1927
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1927-1934
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, ca. 1937 (Epigrams)
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1937-1984
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, 1987-1988 “The Courage to Grow Old”
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Undated articles
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Oversize Folder
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“How to Face a War-Worried World”
: Missing-2002
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Reader's Digest
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Printed articles
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Drafts, 1952-1978
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Unpublished manuscripts
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Miscellany
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Books
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Book covers
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Book manuscripts
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Conquest by Terror
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Box
26
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6
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Reprint, 1954
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PH U.S. Mss 99AF
PH Box
1
Folder
12
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Photographs for illustration
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Crusoe of Lonesome Lake
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Micro 2035
Reel
1
Frame
48
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Final draft, ca. 1956
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U.S. Mss 99AF
Box
26
Folder
7
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Radio transcript
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Last Great Frontiersman
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Box
28
Folder
1-2
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Draft, 1983
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Box
28
Folder
3
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Deleted chapters
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Micro 2035
Reel
1
Frame
399
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Memoirs, pre World War II: Outlines, Part II, Notes
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U.S. Mss 99AF
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Nazi Germany Means War, 1933
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Box
28
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4
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Photocopy
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“Newspaperman” (Incomplete autobiographical novel)
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Micro 2035
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1
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623
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Draft 1
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Reel
1
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702
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Draft 2
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U.S. Mss 99AF
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They Shall Not Sleep
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Box
28
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5
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Typescript of 2 chapters, circa 1944
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Box
28
Folder
6-7
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“What Is A Frenchman,” Typescript, ca. 1930s
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Book project -“D-Book”
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Correspondence
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Dollika to LS
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Transcriptions, 1944-1947
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Box
28
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8
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Part I
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Box
29
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1
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Part II
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Box
29
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2-7
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Original letters, 1947-1981
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LS to Dollika
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Box
29
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8
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1940-1941
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Box
29
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9-14
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1945-1949
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Box
30
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1-4
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1950-1961
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Box
30
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12-14
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1962-1987
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Box
30
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9
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Undated letters
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Drafts
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Box
30
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10
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“Tell Me That You Love Me,” ca. 1975
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Box
30
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11
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“Wooings and Dooings of Adam and Eve,” n.d.
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Box
30
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15
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“Morning messages”
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Box
30
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5
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Notes
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Box
30
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6
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Poems
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Box
30
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7
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Quotes
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Box
30
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8
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Stories
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Book reviews of LS books
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No Other Road to Freedom, 1941
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Box
21
Folder
1
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Scrapbook
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Micro 2035
Reel
2
Frame
1
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Loose clippings
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Reel
2
Frame
80
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Target, You, 1949
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Reel
2
Frame
45
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They Shall Not Sleep, 1944
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Reel
2
Frame
61
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While Time Remains, 194401847
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Reel
2
Frame
86
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Conquest by Terror
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Reel
2
Frame
98
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Crusoe of Lonesome Lake
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Reel
2
Frame
106
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Last Great Frontiersman
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Reel
2
Frame
110
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Book reviews by Stowe
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Lectures
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Reel
2
Frame
126
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Advertising, 1937-1971
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U.S. Mss 99AF
Box
31
Folder
1
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Brochures
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Micro 2035
Reel
2
Frame
155
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Clippings
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U.S. Mss 99AF
Box
31
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2
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Comments, 1934-1950
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Box
31
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3
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Contracts
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Box
31
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4
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Itineraries, 1934-1951, 1971
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Outlines
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Box
31
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5
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Page format
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Card format
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Box
31
Folder
6-7
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1934-1947
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Box
32
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1-2
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1947-1984
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Box
32
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3
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Subjects
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Box
32
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4-5
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Transcriptions, 1934-1958
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Box
32
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7
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Journalism talks, 1971
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News stories
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Clippings
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Scrapbooks
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New York Herald Tribune
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Box
12
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1926, Unsigned news stories by LS
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Box
13
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, 1926-1927 (France 8 England)
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Box
14
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, 1927-1929 (Reparations Conference)
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Box
15
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1929-1931
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Box
16
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1932-1935
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Chicago Daily News
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Box
17
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1939-1940
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Box
18
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, 1940-1941 (Norway 8 Greece)
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Box
19
Folder
1
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, 1941 (Special series)
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Box
19
Folder
2
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1941-1942
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Box
20
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1942, Soviet Union
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Micro 2035
Reel
2
Frame
190
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Loose clippings, 1923-1952
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U.S. Mss 99AF
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Original dispatches, drafts, mimeographed releases
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Columns, New York Post Syndicate
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Box
32
Folder
8-9
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1944-1945
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Box
33
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1-4
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1946-1947
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Box
33
Folder
5-6
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New York Herald Tribune, 1931, 1938-1939
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Box
33
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7-8
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Chicago Daily News, 1941-1943?
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Micro 2035
Reel
2
Frame
295
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“Inside the Iron Curtain,” Columns, 1953-1954
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U.S. Mss 99AF
Box
34
Folder
1-5
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Poetry
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Radio scripts
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Box
34
Folder
6-9
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1931-1943
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Box
36
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1944-1945, August
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Box
27
Folder
1-2
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1947, 1950
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Series: Notebooks and Journals
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Notebooks
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Box
39
Folder
1
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Mulberry Farm, 1915
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Box
39
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2
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Spain, August 1937
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Box
39
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3-6
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Spain, 1937
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Box
39
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7
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Spain IV, U.S. Flyer and Child's colony
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Box
39
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8
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Spain V, 1937
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Box
39
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9
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Spain I, 1938
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Box
39
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10
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Spain II, October 1938 American volunteer nurse
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Box
39
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11
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Pan American Conference, Lima, Peru, December 1938
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Box
39
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12
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Lindbergh's speeches, 1939-1941
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Box
39
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13
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First transatlantic press flight to Europe, 1939
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Box
39
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14
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London, September-October 1939, May 1940
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Box
39
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15
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London to Finland, October 1939
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Box
39
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16
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London, September 21-November 1939
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Box
39
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17
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Russo-Finnish War, 1940
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Box
39
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18
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Norway, Oslo 8 Trondheim, April 1940
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Box
39
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19
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Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, June-September 1940
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Box
39
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20
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Greece, November-December 1940
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Box
39
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21
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Russo-Finnish War, January-March 1940
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Box
39
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22
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Romania 8 Greece, September-November 1940
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Box
39
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23
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Greece, December 1940
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Box
39
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24
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“Homeward Bound from Russia,” 1941
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Box
39
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25
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Correspondents' tour of defense industries, June 1941
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Box
39
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26
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Indo-China, Burma, August-September 1941
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Box
39
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27
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Burma Road, October 1941
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Box
39
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28
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Burma Road racketeering, Loose pages, n.d.
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Box
39
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29
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Chunking, October-November 1941
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Box
39
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30
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Chunking, Burma, Rangoon, November-December 1941
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Box
39
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31
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Battles in Burma, British Colonial “Rot,” December 1941
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Box
39
Folder
32-34
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Battles in Burma, January-March 1942
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Box
39
Folder
35
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Thailand, Loose pages, August 1941
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Box
39
Folder
36-37
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India, March 1942
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Box
39
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38
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India to Iran 8 Moscow, April-May 1942
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Box
40
Folder
1-5
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Soviet Union, May-November 1942
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Box
40
Folder
6
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Expense records, August, 194l-October 1942
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Box
40
Folder
7-8
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Europe, November-December 1944
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Box
40
Folder
9
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Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
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Box
40
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10
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France and Italy, n.d.
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Box
40
Folder
11-12
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London Blitz, November 1944
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Box
40
Folder
13-14
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Civil War in Greece, January 1945
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Box
40
Folder
15
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Atomic Bonb and scientists, December 1945
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Box
40
Folder
16-18
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“What Next in Europe?” Paris, Saltzburg 8 Vienna, July-August 1946
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Box
40
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19
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Hungary (“for D's story”), August 1946
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Box
40
Folder
20-21
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Czechoslovakia, October-November 1946
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Box
40
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22
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Romanian problems, November 1946
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Box
40
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23
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Communists and labor unions in France, May-June 1949
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Box
40
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24
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Labor unions and U.S. aid to Italy, June-July 1949
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Box
40
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25
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Italy, August 1949
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Box
40
Folder
26-29
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Greece, July 1949
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Box
40
Folder
30-31
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Geneva, Economic Commission, August 1949
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Box
40
Folder
32-36
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“Digest Roving” (“Britain's Treasure”), 1955
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Box
41
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1
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“Dutch diamonds,” 1955
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Box
41
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2-3
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East German student escapee, 1957
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Box
41
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4
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Requirements for Digest articles, 1955
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Box
41
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5
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Mid-East, 1957
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Box
41
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6
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Wollweber, Ernest, 1957-1958
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Box
41
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7
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Ulbrich, Walter, Interview, 1959
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Box
41
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8-9
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Camping in Europe, 1959
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Box
41
Folder
10-11
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Finland, 1959
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Box
41
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12
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Suez Canal, 1960
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Box
41
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13-14
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Middle East, 1960
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Box
41
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15
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Iran 8 Iraq, 1960
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Box
41
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16-17
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Iran 8 the Shah, Interview, 1960
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Box
41
Folder
18-19
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Norwegian sea rescue, 1961
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Box
41
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20
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Norway, Salzburg, 1961
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Box
41
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21
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Lapps, 1961
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Box
41
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22-24
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Norway, Reindeer 8 Lapps, 1961
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Box
41
Folder
25
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Haiti 8 Duvallier, 1963
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Box
41
Folder
26
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El Cota Donana, Spain, 1965
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Box
41
Folder
27-28
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Danube
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Box
41
Folder
29
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El Cota Donana, 1966
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Box
41
Folder
30
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Yugoslavia, Earthquake, 1965
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Box
41
Folder
31-32
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African safari, 1966
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Box
41
Folder
33
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Europe, 1966
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Box
41
Folder
34
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Jerez, B., 1966
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Box
41
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35
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Crusoe Island, 1967
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Box
41
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36
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South American expenses, 1967
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Box
35
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1-5
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South America, 1967
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Box
35
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6
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Asian tigers, 1969
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Box
35
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1-12
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Orient, 1969
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Box
35
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13
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Journalism school visits, 1971
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Box
35
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14
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Captive breeding and zoo banks, 1973
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Box
35
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15
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Italy 8 Sicily, 1980
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Box
35
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16-18
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European motor trip, 1983
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Typed journal pages
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Box
27
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4
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1928-1932, Paris
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Box
27
Folder
4a
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1937, August
: See also Memoirs, Part II
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Box
27
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5
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1939, September
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Box
27
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6
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1939, December-1940, March
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Box
27
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7
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1940, December
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Box
27
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8
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Wartime journal indexb
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Box
27
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9
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1946, Notebook transcripts
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Box
27
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10
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1969, Japan
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Box
27
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11
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1971, Romania
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Notes
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Box
27
Folder
12
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Amlie (Hans) interview, 1937
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Box
27
Folder
13
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Digest
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Box
27
Folder
14
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Carney, William
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Box
27
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15
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Hungary
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Box
27
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16
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Hitler
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Box
27
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17
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Hoover, Herbert
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Box
27
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18
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Lindbergh
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Box
27
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19
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Mussolini
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Box
27
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20
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Nasser interview, 1960
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Box
27
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21
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Norway
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Box
27
Folder
22
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Pershing interview, 1943
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Box
37
Folder
1
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Spain
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Series: Teaching Materials
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Box
37
Folder
2
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Awards
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Box
37
Folder
3
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Book collection
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Course materials
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Box
37
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4
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J230 World Affairs lectures
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Box
37
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5
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J301
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Box
37
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6-7
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J476/576
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Box
37
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8
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Foreign assignment
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Box
38
Folder
1
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Miscellaneous course materials
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Box
38
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2
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Miscellaneous outlines
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Box
38
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3
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Miscellany
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Samples
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Box
38
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4-6
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Britain's Gold
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Box
38
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7
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Condors
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Box
38
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8
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Poodles
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Box
38
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9
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Voiceprints
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Box
38
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10
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“Stowe Day”
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38
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11
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Student papers
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