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Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers TAM.118

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
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New York, NY 10012
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Collection processed by Martha Foley, 1985

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on May 14, 2021
Description is in English. using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

 Edited to reflect incorporation of material found in repository and updated administrative information, edited by Jasmine Sykes-Kunk for compliance with DACS and ACM Required Elements for Archival Description Edited by Laura Juliano to reflect the rehousing of materials.  Edited by Rachel Mahre to revise laudatory language in the Biographical Note.  , June 2014 , May 2019 , March 2020 , May 2021

Container List

Series VII: The Alderson Years, 1955-1957

Scope and Contents

All of the correspondence, notes, prison documents and publications used by EGF for her book The Alderson Story. Preserved here are letters to Clarens France, Murial Symington and Kathy Flynn, the three officially approved correspondents permitted EGF while serving her prison term. Scrapbook material from the publication of the book and its public reception are included.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 7 Folder : 1 Letters to Alderson from Kathy
Reel 16

1955
Box: 7 Folder : 2 Kathy's notes on Alderson prison I
Reel 16

1955
Box: 7 Folder : 3 Kathy's notes on Alderson visits II
Reel 16

1955-1956
Box: 7 Folder : 4 Draft poem, "What Do I Miss"
Reel 16

1955
Box: 7 Folder : 5 Alderson prison papers--letters, notes, clippings
Reel 16

1955-1961
Box: 7 Folder : 6 Correspondence, personal release from prison
Reel 16

1957
Box: 7 Folder : 7 Letters from Alderson to A. K. Flynn, Jan 1955-May 1957
Reel 16

1955-1957
Box: 7 Folder : 8 Letters from Alderson to Muriel J. Symington, Jan 1955-May 1957
Reel 17

1955-1957
Box: 7 Folder : 9 Letters from Alderson to Dr. Clemens, France, Aug 1955-May 1957
Reel 17

1955-1957
Box: 7 Folder : 10, 11 Alderson Manuscript, I & II
Reel 17

1963
Box: 7 Folder : 12 Alderson Manuscript, III, Alderson Eagle
Reel 17

1956-1957
Box: 7 Folder : 13 Alderson Story, galleys, master set of revisions, pp 1-223
Reel 17

1963
Box: 7 Folder : 14 Alderson Story, galleys II, marked set
Reel 18

1963
Box: 7 Folder : 15-16 Letters and drawing commemorating publication of The Alderson Story, I & II
Reel 18

1963
Box: 7 Folder : 17 Scrapbook, The Alderson Story--book reviews, announcements, etc
Reel 18

1963-1964
Box: 7 Folder : 18 Book reviews and correspondence, I Speak My
Reel 18

1956-1958

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