Correspondence includes letters from publishers and friends. Contracts and accounts; manuscripts of various novels and stories; copies of stories published in magazines and papers; clippings. Correspondents include Mary R. Beard, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Max Eastman, Fannie Hurst, Joseph Henry Jackson, Otto H. Kahn, Sinclair Lewis, Carey McWilliams, Thomas Mann, Upton Sinclair, Dorothy Thompson, Ida Tarbell, Carl Van Vechten, Rebecca West, and John Steinbeck.

Number of containers: 16 boxes, 3 cartons, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder

Linear feet: 10.4

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