This index is not a comprehensive list of prominent correspondents and is only for correspondence found in the Central Files series. Only letters filed under a heading other than an individual's name are noted here. Additional correspondence for many of these same individuals and others is also listed throughout the contents list.

Name	Date	Box	Folder
Baldwin, Roger	1938 July 29	58	33
	1938 December 19	58	33
	1939 June 15	65	84
Barnouw, Erik	1937 September 11	53	4
Barton, Bruce	1935 February 13	36	61
Beals, Carleton	1938 October 4	59	37
	1938 December 22	59	37
Beard, Mary	1940 January 2	81	42
Bernays, Edward L.	1937 January 4	65	58
	1938 January 13	65	58
	1938 January 22	65	58
Brooks, Van Wyck	1940 September 6	75	22
Buck, Pearl S.	1940 November 18	76	38
Bushman, Francis X.	1932 May	7	33
Butler, Nicholas M.	1939 April 27	69	65
	1939 April 29	69	65
Byrnes, James F.	1936 July 22	44	57
Cantor, Eddie	1934 February 2	25	32
Carnegie, Dale	1936 February 18	45	34
Codel, Martin	1936 March 10	45	37
	1937 February 23	56	32
	1938 July 26	64	53
Coffin, Henry Sloane	1940 February 13	78	38
	1940 March 4	78	38
	1940 September 13	79	62
	1940 October 2	79	62
Conant, James B.	1938 June 14	61	40
Conner, R.D.W.	1937 October 26	55	49
Cooke, Alistair	1939 October 29 (copy)	73	32
	1940 June 26	76	40
Copeland, Royal S.	1932 May 26	8	50
Corwin, Norman	1940 June 11	80	40
Coughlin, Father Charles	1940 January 24	76	17
Cousins, Norman	1940 June 11	80	40
Cudahy, John	1935 December 5	40	48
DeLeath, Vaughn	1933 September 8	17	19
	1933 November	17	19
	1940 February?	76	70
Detzer, Dorothy	1938 October 5	59	42
Disney, Walt	1936 August 7	45	47
Early, Stephen	1933 March 17	16	36
Ernst, Morris	1940 May 13	76	82
	1941 January 3	81	65
Faith, Percy	1940 November?	77	22
Ferber, Edna	1934 April 30	27	17
	1939 April 13	69	44
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield	1940 January 24	75	61
	1940 January 25	75	61
	1940 February 1	75	61
Foster, William Z.	1941 February 4	82	41
	1941 June 24	82	41
Freeman, Douglas S.	1935 June 13	36	61
	1935 June 15	36	61
Gannett, Frank	1939 February 8	71	5
	1939 November 8	--	--
	1939 November 9	--	--
	1939 December 7	--	--
Garland, Hamlin	1930 October 11	2	7
Goldberg, Rube	1932 June 11	10	30
Green, William	1929 May 6	2	28
	1935 January 29	37	31
Gross, Ben	1935 April 6	37	31
Guest, Edgar A.	1934 January 27	27	54
Gunther, John	1940 October 17 (copy)	77	45
Hammond, John Henry	1940 January 12	78	56
	1940 January 22	--	--
Hammerstein, Oscar	1940 March 29	77	61
Hays, Will H.	1940 April 19	78	65
	1940 November 18	--	--
Hertzberg, Sidney	1927 January 11	5	28
High, Stanley	1935 February 6	40	49
	1935 November 12	36	61
Hill, George W.	1935 April 15	38	1
	1935 April 22	--	--
	1935 September 27	--	--
	1935 October 3	--	--
Hillquit, Morris	1932 October 14	14	16
Hoover, J. Edgar	1933 February 20	18	2
	1934 January 17	33	6
	1940 November 28	79	30
	1942 April 6	89	7
Hopper, Hedda	1935 April 8	38	2
	1935 May 12	--	--
	1935 May 20	--	--
Hull, Cordell	1938 March 21	65	15
	1939 September 23	69	57
	1939 November 1	73	27
Hutchins, Robert M.	1935 February 21	38	3
	1935 April 5	--	--
Kaltenborn, Hans V.	1935 April 5	38	35
Kennedy, Joseph P.	1934 December 10	40	48
Klauber, Edward	1935 October 12	38	36
Knox, Frank	1937 December 8	56	60
La Follette, Philip	1932 January 9	11	64
La Follette, Robert M., Jr.	1932 January 20	11	64
Landon, Alf	1933 November 10	19	18
Lasswell, Harold D.	1940 August 24	74	7
Lewis, Fulton, Jr.	1940 March 20	76	23
Lochner, Louis P.	1937 September 27	55	5
MacLeish, Archibald	1939 October 18	71	62
	1939 October 27	--	--
	1939 November 1	--	--
McClure, S.S.	1932 June 8	11	49
	1939 November 7 (copy)	71	5
Mencken, H. L.	1934 January 20	42	5
Moley, Raymond	1940 July 17	78	65
Morganthau, Henry	1934 March 16	30	13
	1934 April 26	--	--
Mundt, Karl	1934 May 14	30	14
	1940 June 5 (copy)	75	80
	1940 June 15	78	8
Murrow, Edward R.	1937 November 1	55	47
Muste, A.J.	1940 February 16	78	38
O'Neil, Eugene	1937 August 28	56	5
Ormandy, Eugene	1932 December 28	20	31
Pearson, Drew	1939 August 16 (copy)	73	32
	1939 August 21	--	--
	1939 August 26	--	--
Pepper, Claude	1941 October 20	86	107
Pickford, Mary	1935 March 13	40	48
Putnam, George Palmer	1933 December 27	31	21
Putnam, Herbert	1938 September 14	63	61
Pyle, Ernie	1937 March 8	56	32
Rayburn, Sam	1932 April 15	8	50
Rockefeller, Nelson	1932 December 10	13	76
	1932 December 15	--	--
	1934 June 18	26	4
	1934 August 10	--	--
	1936 March 27	50	2
	1936 June 24	46	26
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	1934 September 14 (copy)	30	19
	1937 August 22 (copy)	56	55
	1939 August 10	69	52
Roosevelt, Nicholas	1938 September 28	64	2
Rukeyser, Merryle S.	1936 March 12	50	2
Saerchinger, Cesar	1940 March 8	80	65
Scripps, William E.	1936 October 17	45	69
	1938 February 15	65	66
	1938 February 17	65	66
Shaw, George	1936 February 6	50	35
Sheen, Fulton J.	1938 February 9	59	54
	1938 February 11	--	--
	1941 March 5	86	80
	1941 March 12	--	--
Sinclair, Upton	1935 June 19	41	73
Sokolsky, George	1934 August 16	32	57
	1939 January 31	72	82
Sonnenberg, Ben	1937 May 4	57	19
Spivak, Lawrence E.	1937 December 24	51	76
Stowe, Leland	1938 October 8	63	2
Streit, Clarence	1939 February 5	72	83
	1940 August 7	77	6
Sullivan, Ed	1937 January 29	57	21
Sullivan, Mark	1926 August 16	5	13
Swing, Raymond Gram	1933 October 30	22	20
Swope, Herbert Bayard	1932 June 3	14	48
	1936 November 5	50	38
	1939 September 26	67	10
	1939 October 5	--	--
Taylor, Davidson	1939 April 12	71	18
Taylor, Deems	1934 March 16	32	71
Thomas, Norman	1928 March 12	5	28
	1928 April 2	--	--
	1928 April 9	--	--
	1931 May 26	4	1
	1931 October 1	--	--
	1932 February 4	12	53
	1932 April 18	14	16
	1932 April 22	--	--
	1932 August 15	--	--
	1940 March 1	74	23
Thomas, Lowell	1932 January 18	8	45
	1932 January 21	11	61
	1932 February 7	--	--
	1932 May 24	--	--
	1938 February 16	59	64
Trout, Robert	1937 September 25	57	37
Vallee, Rudy	1936 July 24	49	30
Villard, Oswald Garrison	1936 June 19	51	8
Von Zell, Harry	1942 February 20	89	13
Watson, Thomas J.	1932 March 11	11	12
	1934 January 27	33	40
	1934 May 2	--	--
	1934 July 30	--	--
White, Walter	1935 February 6	43	3
	1935 December 14	40	3
	1935 December 23	--	--
White, William Allen	1939 October 5	66	7
	1939 October 29	--	--
	1940 May 16	76	87
Whiteman, Paul	1933 September 9	23	3
Winchell, Walter	1934 October 18	29	39
	1934 November 13	28	46
	1934 November 19	--	--
	1938 August 21	64	54
Woollcott, Alexander	1936 January 13 (copy)	51	30
Zanuck, Darryl F.	1932 September 29	9	18