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This collection consists largely of correspondence; included are letters from Joel E. Spingarn to Amy Spingarn written during the 1914-1915 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) speaking tour; letters to Amy Spingarn regarding researcher access to the Joel E. Spingarn collections at the Moorland Collection at Howard University and the James Weldon Johnson Collection at Yale University; and letters to W.E.B. Du Bois. Additional material includes information regarding the opening of Joel E. Spingarn High School in Washington, D.C.; a 1898 speech; NAACP printed material; articles by and about Arthur Spingarn, Joel's brother; a typescript by Jacques Roumain on Vodun (voodoo); and other printed material. less

Letters from French avant-garde artist Henri-Pierre Roché to American poet and art aficionado Jeanne Robert Foster from 1924 to 1925 and 1958 to 1959 .The letters focus on their mutual friendship with John Quinn during the period of his declining health and death, Roché's participation in the appraisal of Quinn's estate, reactions of various friends and colleagues to Quinn's death, and arrangements for the 1926 memorial exhibition. The letters imply a close romantic relationship between Foster and Quinn. Roché also discusses his affair with Helen Grund Hessel, wife of German writer and translator Franz Hessel, and one letter contains an enclosure from Helen ("Helaine") to Foster. Many letters also pass along greetings and news regarding "Germaine," presumably referring to his friend Germaine Bayle rather than his former wife, Germaine Bonnard. Other letters acknowledge that Roché had burned Foster's incoming letters at her request. less