Box 4

Typed letter signed dated 6/8/86 in envelope thanking recipient for interview.

Note from co-anchor of MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour and novelist Jim Lehrer stating it was a pleasure to meet recipient. In envelope dated 5/25/88.

Holiday card postmarked 12/19/86 with handwritten note in which Leedom-Ackerman thanks recipient for an interview.

Invitation to a reading with handwritten note in envelope.

The Don Swaim Collection includes audio tape reels and cassettes of interviews and radio broadcasts. Featured in this collection are the original masters of the radio series "Book Beat." Also included are broadcasts for "Mr. Shirer Gives a Talk," uncut author interviews, highlights on 1986 PEN International Conference, American Book Award speeches, and the 10-part series "Looking for the Great American Novel."

Typed letter signed dated 2/12/86 in envelope in which Mailer thanks recipient for praising staff members of PEN. (Mailer was president of group in 1986)

Typed letter signed dated 2/4/84 in envelope confirming Kennedy-Hawthorne book trade.

Typed letter signed dated 3/18/84 in envelope thanking recipient for interview.

Typed letter signed dated 1/29/84 in envelope offering to trade a copy of William Kennedy's Ironweed for a Nathaniel Hawthorne volume.

Typed letter signed dated 3/27/84 in envelope setting up a dinner meeting in Athens, Ohio with Hollis Summers, Duane Schneider, and others.