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"Large blue notebook containing records of research books used October-December, 1972, prior to the arrival of Laird, Kings and Dalton. These are merely the books taken from the Denver Library during one brief period."

Scope and Contents "A very important collection of slides and negatives of photographs taken in the years 1936-1938, showing my interest at that time in dryland farming, water problems, rural life in Colorado and the west, Indian affairs, and especially the life of Mexican workers in Chihuahua region. Anyone studying these photographs carefully and comparing them with the imagery of my novel on the Platte will find almost all the great visual impacts already defined by 1936. Almost everything I wrote about in...

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"A random collection of photographs taken during the working year, by various cameramen in various places."

Scope and Contents "Some of the yellow sheets I used to insert into the manuscript whenever I lifted even one page for Erskine, Nadia, Kings or Dalton to work upon. When one has a manuscript as long as this one, as intricate, and as closely interlocked in its parts, the loss of even one page can be devastating. I have therefore always followed the practice of allowing not one page to be removed without making a note of where it has gone. I do this on slip sheets of cheap yellow paper and insert them to...

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"Case History of an Article that Didn't Pan Out. This is, in some respects, a continuation of Item #30, but is a complete episode of itself."

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"A batch of hilarious and semi-tragic articles relating to the naming of a new library in the small community of Quakertown near my home. The library that finally resulted is one of the most handsome, usable and appreciated in the whole state."

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"Papers relating to the production of a motion picture script on Home Rule for political entities within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. During the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention I was concerned with providing our state with a better system of local government, and having worked hard for that outcome, I had to say yes when state leaders wanted me to sponsor a film outlining the virtues of the new act."

Scope and Contents "Financial report. Because I have sent to the library a fairly complete explanation of how I worked, it would be logical to add the financial details, too. These papers summarize what happened. IF THEY COME INTO YOUR POSSESSION DURING MY LIFETIME, THEY MUST NOT BE OPENED UNTIL MY DEATH, WHEN THEY CAN BE DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. If they do not come into your possession during my lifetime, they will be found among my papers, properly marked, and you should take steps to obtain possession of...

Scope and Contents "The first people outside of Random House who had a chance to see the manuscript of the new novel were the editors at Reader's Digest. They studied the contents for a long time and belatedly concluded that they could use my chapter on the Arapaho Indian whose life spanned the arrival of both the horse and the gun. I was delighted, for such a sale would go far toward repaying me for the heavy expense I had been under in the writing of this book. These papers illustrate how such editors...

Scope and Contents "I was heavily importuned to testify before the Pennsylvania legislature on the matter of pornography. Legislators, infuriated by the rapid increase of public pornography, had proposed a bill which would give every local district attorney the right to constitute himself a one-man censorship board, which was patently absurd. I tried to kill this foolish aspect of a bill which the public wanted, and failed. Because legislators pretty much had to vote for the bill, or be castigated as friends...