Personal Papers 42998
Scope and Content
Series contains the personal papers, legal documents, correspondence, and photographs of Irmgard Lenel. Her personal correspondents
included Dorothy Healey, Helmut Cron, and the various parties involved with getting various members of her family visas to
immigrate to the United States in the late 1930s and 1940s. Lenel's personal papers consists of notebooks with recipes, poems
and other writings, legal documents (including passports and a copy of her birth certificate) from Nazi Germany, receipts
and other financial records, and her school papers and references. Photographs present in this series are primarily of Lenel
with family members in various German locations in the 1920s and 1930s, although photographs of Santa Monica and Lenel's siblings
and their families in England and Larchmont, New York, are also present.
Box 5
Autograph Book 110296
1913-1919
Box 17
Notebooks
1910-1923
Language of Material: German.
Scope and Contents
School notebooks, personal diary, notebook with riddles and poems, book with quotes, notebook with quotes written by friends,
recipe book, gradebooks.
Box 5
Employment Correspondence & Records 43001
Scope and Content
Series contains correspondence pertaining to Lenel's employment (usually as a secretary or stenographer), both in Germany
in the 1930s and after she moved to the United States in 1937. Also included in this series are her personnel records from
various employers and the correspondence between Lenel, her lawyer and the Veterans Adminstration pertaining to her firing
due to suspected disloyalty to the United States in 1951.
Correspondence with Governments 42989
Scope and Content
Series contains Lenel's correspondence with agencies, departments, and representatives of federal, state, and local governments
on a variety of policy and political issues. She wrote letters to the President, Senators and Representatives (both of California
and other states), the Department of State, and various state and local government officials. Copies of her outgoing correspondence
are often found with the response she received (usually from a staffer of whatever office she wrote to, not the actual official).
Also included in this series is campaign literature she received in the mail.
Box 6
Political Campaigns 43048
Box 7
Correspondence with Radio & TV Stations 42992
Scope and Content
Series contains Lenel's correspondence (both incoming and outgoing) with a variety of radio and TV commentators and subscription
solicitations from public radio and TV stations. Lenel was an active supporter of a number of radio and television stations,
including KPFK, KUSC and KCET and this series includes a reel recording of her 1964 "Subscriber's Report" broadcast with Robert
Adler for KPFK. Also included in this series is correspondence documenting her support of the World Peace Broadcasting Foundation.
Box 7, Box 8, Box 9, Box 10
Correspondence with Political Groups 42993
Scope and Content
Series contains correspondence documenting Lenel's involvement with politically active organizations, including the Friends
Committee on Legislation (FCL), Women for Legislative Action (WLA), and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF).
Subject Files, Publications & Newspaper Clippings 42994
Scope and Content
Series contains subject files and publications on various topics Lenel followed, including civil liberties curtailment (especially
McCarthyism), the civil rights movement, the disarmament, and anti-war movements. Clippings contained in this series are
from both English and German newspapers. While the English clippings are generally about Lenel's interests (outlined above),
the German ones are mostly from socialist and/or women's publications from before World War II.
Box 13, Box 15, Box 16
Miscellaneous Publications 42996
Box 13, Box 14, Box 15, Box 16
Newspaper Clippings 42997
Correspondence, publications, newspaper clippings, and other material added to the collection in 2022
Processing Information
The material described under this series was added to the collection as part of accrual no. 2022-004. Gabriel Rainstorm, a
USC student employee, created the folder-level description records under this series in February of 2022.
Box 18, Folder 1
[Congressional letters to Lenel]
1992-04-21-1993-06-18
Language of Material: English.
Box 18, Folder 2
[Ernst Toch event correspondence]
1973-11-12-1977-04-12
Language of Material: English.
Box 18, Folder 3
[The Nation correspondence to Lenel]
1951-04-10-1966-04-20
Language of Material: English.
Box 18, Folder 4
Henry Wallace is "in it" - He's Already Won
1948
Language of Material: English.
Box 18, Folder 5
[Meeting of Minds and American Foreign Policy]
1951-06-30-1960-06-26
Language of Material: English.
Box 18, Folder 6
Outlook, Last Issue
1998-03-14
Language of Material: English.
Box 18, Folder 7
[Newspapers and letters with Jack Smith]
1988-07-18-1994-02-02
Language of Material: English.
Box 18, Folder 8
R. Scheer: Irmgard
1998-05-28-1999-03-11
Language of Material: English.
