Alvah Bessie Papers, 1929-1991

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Series: Spanish Civil War Notebooks
Scope and Content Note: Material relating to the publication in 1998, edited by Dan Bessie, of the notebooks Alvah Bessie kept while serving with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain in 1938, and on which his 1939 book, Men in Battle, was based.
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Correspondence between Dan Bessie, the governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, and members of Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, including Harry Fisher, Moe Fishman, Len Levenson, and Milton Wolff, about the publication project; draft preface, reader's report and proposal
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Typescript of the notebooks as submitted for publication
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Page proofs