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Letter from Harry Miller Lydenberg, then director of the New York Public Library, to the Secretary of State asking the Secretary to add Simon Lissim and his wife to the list of intellectuals with special visas to enter the United States during World…

David Dubinsky played an important role in many election campaigns in general, and in Herbert H. Lehman’s campaigns in particular.

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In his letter to Mirra Ginsburg sent from Peredelkino and dated September 12, 1965, Kornei Chukovskii writes: “My dear friend, I know your name quite well. I have read in your translations Taibele and her Demon, Big and Little, The Fast Gimpel and…

Dictated, typed and then signed letter from Leonide Massine to Francis Steegmüller.

Martin Dies, Chairman, House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities, wrote to Frances Perkins, then Labor Secretary, requesting the file on the Harry Bridges case.

Letter of thanks for gift of photograph collection

Mirra Ginsburg in her letter to Elena Bulgakova expresses her admiration for Mikhail Bulgakov’s writings and describes the situation with regard to the translation and publication of his works in English.

Mirra Ginsburg in her letter of October 4, 1965, expresses her appreciation for a letter of Kornei Chukovskii, whose opinion she highly respected. Besides the discussion about her translation, Chukovskii in his letter asked Mirra to send him a photo…

Letter criticizing Kirk's use of police force on campus, comparing his
actions to those taken in Nazi Germany, dated April 30, 1968