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Before Jefferson's Birthday Meeting of the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. 4/13/1942.

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Delivered at the New York University Symposium, sponsored by the Young Progressives of America. 5/17/1950.

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5/21/1953.

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Before a Mass Meeting of the National Action Conference for Civil Rights held under the auspices of the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties and the Washington Committee for Democratic Action) Untitled Speech (audience unknown and date incomplete.

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Smith's chronological listing of "Groups Before Which Edwin S. Smith Has Spoken." Also handwritten list of speeches and articles. Typed list of speeches.

Scope and Contents Includes personal letter to "Dunny ..." discussing Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego"; poetry from Henry S. Dennison; Correspondence with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Governor of the State of New York, and as President of the United States) regarding Smith's appointments to the positions of Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor and Industries (1931) and Executive Member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (1934); Smith's letter of...

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Substantial correspondence from officials of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers concerning the Berkshire Knitting Mills strike. Includes 13pp brief discussing wages, sex discrimination, and breakdown of collective bargaining. Also of interest are news releases describing Reading, Pennsylvania manufacturers' admiration for Hitler and fascist Germany's labor policies.

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To Winston Churchill, Esq., M.P. regarding economic boycotts against fascist nations; Text of speech "The Basis of a Good Neighbor Policy" and related correspondence to Hon. Sumner Welles (Acting Secretary of State) and Ellis O. Briggs (Acting Chief, Division of the American Republics).

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Lengthy (20pp+) correspondence documenting Edwin S. Smith's (Director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc.) trip to the Soviet Union (6/45-7/45). Includes detailed account of early passenger aviation; descriptions of Tripoli, Cairo, Moscow and Kiev, as well as meetings with cultural heroes such as Prokoviev, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky and Eisenstein.

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Subpoena to appear before Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives; Discussion of Edwin Smith's (Am-Rus Literary and Music Agency) review of books on Henry David Thoreau, from Walter Harding (Professor, Teachers College, Geneseo, N.Y.), Leo Stoller (Professor, Dept. of English, Wayne State University and author of After Walden) and Truman Nelson; from Edwin Smith to Dr. Annette Rubinstein regarding Jacksonian democracy and Thoreau.