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Copy of Edwin Smith's "A Thoreau for Today" (Mainstream, April 1960) and related correspondence from: Paul Sherman (author of The Shores of America, Thoreau's Exploration), Leslie C. Dunn (Professor, Dept. of Zoology, Columbia University), Dirk Struck, Leo Stoller and Lola S. Haverstick.

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Personal correspondence from Mary Van Kleeck; Copy of editorial entitled "Comment on Harvey Swados' `The West Coast Waterfront' Dissent, Autumn 1961" (10pp), sent to Smith by Lincoln Fairley (Research Director, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.)

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Correspondence with Lincoln Fairley regarding Mechanization and Modernization Agreement funds; Copy to Edwin Smith of Ernest DeMaio's (President, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America) letter to Raymond Dennis (International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Toronto, Canada) concerning the Common Market's impact on the U.S. economy; table of Man-Days Lost Through Industrial Disputes in Selected Industries in France and Germany.

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George Meany's opening remarks before the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; Excerpt of M. J. Furay's manuscript The Forces And Events Which Led To The Institutionalization Of Unions In The American Way Of Life And The Impact Of That Process Upon Our Society And Culture (8pp); correspondence from Dr. Charles P. Larrowe and Lincoln Fairley regarding Smith's prospectus for his manuscript History of Labor.

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Lengthy criticism of Michael Eisner's (possibly a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin) manuscript discussing the role William Leiserson played on the NLRB (12pp); personal letter from Harvard classmate Carlyle Morris; hate mail from reactionaries.

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Report entitled Deregistration of "D" Men, San Francisco, 1963-1964 (15pp); to Lincoln Fairley summarizing "leading ideas" discussed in Smith's manuscript History of Labor (4pp).

Scope and Contents To Hon. J. William Fulbright (Senator, Foreign Relations Committee) commending the committee on hearings it conducted regarding American military operations in Vietnam; Joseph Polowsky's (member, 1st American army patrol to meet the Soviet army at the Elbe River in Germany on 3/25/45) proposed resolution recommending the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council celebrate April 25 as a holiday of reconciliation, cooperation and rededication; letter of support to Senator...

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Personal correspondence between Edwin Smith and Mark Heming (friend from Sag Harbor). Includes Heming's accounts of his experiences in London.

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Personal correspondence between Edwin Smith and Mark Heming. Includes a discussion of Nixon and Watergate, as well as Smith's review of a film on the Chinese Communist Revolution. Personal letter from Thomas I. Emerson (Yale University Law School, formerly of the NLRB); poetry exchange with Marian Curtiss; personal letter from Moses Soyer (friend and member of the Artists Committee of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship) regarding "Ida".

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a collection of correspondence, poetry, manuscripts, transcripts and papers collected and written by Edwin S. Smith.