Box 21

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Correspondence with persons whom Konvitz solicited each year for contributions to the Horace Kallen Chair Fund. From the Fund, Kallen was paid his salary by the New School for Social Research from 1952 until his death in 1974. Correspondence with Alfred J. Marrow regarding Kallen's retirement from the New School (April 13, 1967)

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Correspondence with Doctor Henry David, President of the New School for Social Research, regarding plans for a dinner in honor of Kallen's 80th birthday (August 11, 1962).

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Copies of Konvitz's remark about Kallen, and book reviews by Konvitz on works by Kallen. Articles by Kallen and newspaper clippings about him. A list of the pictures of people on the walls of Kallen's study.

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Articles on cultural pluralism. An article about Kallen and a typed paper on Kallen by Konvitz. An article in Hebrew.

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Copy of a transcript of an interview of Kallen on August 31, 1964 by Konvitz and Dorothy Oko.

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1974 [1948], 1949, 1952, 1955. Correspondence between Konvitz and Cornell University Press and other publishers regarding routine publication matters concerning Horace Kallen's books, Ideals and Experience and The Liberal Spirit. Copy of the Memorandum of Agreement establishing the Board of Trustees for the Kallen Publication Revolving Fund.

Scope and Contents 1948-1961, 1963-1965. Correspondence between Konvitz and Cornell University Press regarding the Kallen Revolving Fund annual report and the sale of Horace Kallen's books, Ideals and Experience and The Liberal Spirit. Also correspondence between Professor Konvitz and Kallen regarding the fund and proposals for a Near Eastern Center at the New School for Social Research. Konvitz supports the proposal for the establishment of a Near Eastern Center at the New School that would be committed to...

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[1947-1948] 1950, 1952. Routine material and correspondence with various publishers regarding the preparation and publication of Freedom and Experience: Essays Presented to Horace M. Kallen, edited by Sidney Hook and Konvitz.

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1945-[1947], 1952. Correspondence with various contributors to Freedom and Experience and others regarding the preparation and essays for the festschrift. Also correspondence with various people regarding contributions to the Kallen chair and Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund.

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Routine correspondence with contributing authors to Freedom and Experience regarding the book's preparation. Correspondence with various people regarding contributions to Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund.