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Collection Materials from November 3rd Class Session

The following boxes from archival collections, related to themes presented by Professor Beverly Gage, were used in the class session in the Gates special collections classroom on Thursday, November 3, 2022.

Collections from the Beinecke Library:

Muriel Draper Papers (YCAL MSS 49) -- Series II, Box 11 (see especially articles on Draper's 1934-1935 visit to the Soviet Union in folders 357, 361, 371-374, and 388).

Leon F. Litwack Collection of Berkeley, California, Protest Literature (WA MSS 2616) -- Series I, Box 1.

Rebecca West Collection (GEN MSS 239) -- Series I, Box 3 (see especially correspondence with Doris Stevens, 1922-1959, in folders 100-115, some of which reflects West's involvement in the controversies surrounding Joseph McCarthy and the American anti-Communist movement).

Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon Papers (JWJ MSS 38) -- Series I, Box 1 (see especially correspondence with Gloster B. Current, 1949-1955, regarding infiltration of the N.A.A.C.P. by the Communist Party in folder 43).

Terry Tempest Williams Papers (WA MSS S-2700) -- Series I, Box 102.

Collections from Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library:

American Immigration Conference Board Records (MS 614). Box 1.

Chester Bowles Papers (MS 628) -- Part IV, Series I, Box 157 (see especially correspondence with Adlai Stevenson, 1953-1956, in folders 622-627).

William F. Buckley, Jr. Papers (MS 576) -- Part I, Box 30 (see especially correspondence, clippings, and other materials relating to Barry Goldwater, 1964).

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Papers (MS 1665) -- Series I, Box 13.

John Anthony Danaher Papers (MS 165) -- Series III, Box 64 (see especially correspondence relating to Richard Nixon, 1945-1971, in folder 776).

Gus Hall Paper (MS 2113) -- Series I, Box 5.

Victor Jeremy Jerome Papers (MS 589) -- Series III, Box 40.

Duncan Chaplin Lee and John Lee Papers (MS 2062) -- Series I, Box 1.

Dwight Macdonald Papers (MS 730) -- Series II, Box 126.

Alfred Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University, Records (RU 22) -- Series I, Box 2.

Secretary's Office, Yale University, Records (RU 49) -- Series III, Box 183 (see correspondence of H.B. Fisher, 1943-195, in folder 531).

Harry W. Selden Right-Wing Materials Collection (MS 2069) -- Series I, Box 1.

George Howard Edward Smith (MS 458) -- Series III, Box 31.

Rose Pastor Stokes Papers (MS 573) -- Series I, Box 3.

Harry Weinberger Papers (MS 553) -- Original accession, Box 28 (see especially Emma Goldman correspondence, 1915-1919, in folders 10-21).

Yale Library Contacts

Joshua Cochran: Curator, American History and Diplomacy, Beinecke Library - joshua.cochran@yale.edu

James Kessenides: Kaplanoff Librarian for American History, Sterling Memorial Library - james.kessenides@yale.edu

Bill Landis: Education Program Director - bill.landis@yale.edu