The most important items in the Caylor manuscript collection are the three-volume typescript (carbon copy) of his autobiography, “If My Memory Serves Me Right,” its continuation, “Seventy to Eighty,” and a memoir of his brother Joseph E. Cohen, entitled “Brother Joe.” They provide valuable information regarding the socialist movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century, particularly in Philadelphia and New York, and include interesting and relevant sidelights on many of the most notable socialist leaders of the era: Eugene V. Debs, Jack London, Haldeman-Julius, John Spargo, and many others. To supplement these works, there are also several typescripts of shorter memoirs and reminiscences relating to Debs, Spargo, Fred Long, Clinton Golden, Billy Price, the labor movement, the motion picture Birth of a Nation, and other subjects.
In 1958, the Center for Practical Politics of Rollins College (Winter Park, Florida) inaugurated a study of Caylor's “Letters to the Editor” to the Orlando Sentinel. The correspondence and final report of the study are included in the collection. A small, but interesting, collection of Xerox copies of Caylor's correspondence (originals in the Brandeis University Library) covering the period 1955 to 1966 includes letters to and from John F. Kennedy, Clinton S. Golden, Stewart Holbrook, Carl Sandburg, Alger Hiss, Harry Golden, Robert F. Kennedy, and Richard O'Connor, among others. The subject matter reflects the wide range of Caylor's concerns: labor arbitration, segregation and civil rights, nuclear testing, Medicare, Viet Nam, and the Selective Service.
