Box 1

Harry Emerson Fosdick letter to Mr. Comstock thanking him for the first edition of the book The Scarlet Letter. Clergyman Fosdick states that he considers this book "the greatest American novel."

John Galsworthy handwritten and signed letter to Miss Leroy(?) is written from Wingstone, Manaton, nr. Moretonhamstead, Devon. He thanks her for her letter and for her praise of "the play." He probably refers to the Forsyte Saga.

The Allen Ginsberg Response to Fifth Ave. Vietnam Peace Parade Committee is a letter with second page insert from the committee thanking Ginsberg for being a sponsor of its Literary and Art Auction for Peace and providing them a signed edition of "Kaddish and Other Poems." Ginsberg has written his reply over this letter in black ink. "Too much idiot paperwork!!!! I already sent mss!" among other notes.

Letter from Dr. Cutler W. Goodrich to A.B. Walker about Goodrich's family history and two handwritten notes about Timothy Wilkins, his wife Candace Bingham, and Timothy Goodrich.

Warren G. Harding's letters to Geo. Hildebrand (of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce in Ohio) are in response to letters sent by Hildebrand. There are two letters dated February 10, 1919 and November 18, 1919. Harding thanks Hildebrand for his letters, clippings, and viewpoints. Of note is when Harding writes "...I am not taking the presidential matter at all seriously... I like the official life in the Senate and... would like to succeed myself as a member of that body."

Handwritten notes from Maurice Hewlett to his publisher Elkin Mathews of Cork Street. Dated September 23, 1915; May 30, 1916; and May 31, 1916.

Three page holograph letter from R.F. Hoffman of Warren, Ohio, to Elijah Snow in Athens, Ohio, describing legal difficulties involving land transaction.