Bartolomeo Vanzetti letters and translation

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{"value"=>"MssCol 2500", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1925-1927", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1925/1927"}

{"value"=>"1968", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968"}

date_inclusive_start

1925

date_inclusive_end

1968

keydate

1925

unittitle

{"value"=>"Bartolomeo Vanzetti letters and translation"}

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repository

{"id"=>"MSS", "value"=>"Manuscripts and Archives Division"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) and Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) were Italian-American anarchists convicted of murdering two men during a robbery in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1920. Appeals on their behalf were unsuccessful and they were executed on August 23, 1927. The collection consists of five autograph letters by Vanzetti, 1925-1927, one with an accompanying note; a copy of a 1929 letter by a newspaper editor regarding his reportage on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, with its 1968 letter of donation; and Vanzetti’s manuscript English translation of Piero Jahier’s La Guerra e la Pace : Pagina Scelte, an Italian edition of anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s 1861 work, La Guerre et la Paix. Three autograph letters from Vanzetti to Roger Baldwin, 1925-1926, concern the translation of the Jahier work; an autograph letter from Vanzetti to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1926, hopes that she will be able to visit him; and an autograph letter from Vanzetti to Robertson Trowbridge, 1927, accompanied by Trowbridge’s explanatory note, thanks him for copying some verses by Shelley. Also present is a copy of a letter written by New York World editor Philip Duffield Stong to B.W. Huesch, 1929, defending the integrity of his journalism in regard to his interview with Sacco and Vanzetti at Dedham Prison in 1927. The copy was provided by Stong’s former co-worker John Nicholas Beffel; his 1968 cover letter provides further detail."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Bartolomeo Vanzetti letters and translation, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Lucille Milner, 1944, with additional donations.</p>"}

processinfo

{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Susan P. Waide</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}

relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Rose Pesotta papers, 1922-1965.. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span>"}

extent_statement

.18 linear feet (1 volume, 1 folder)

date_start

1925

date_end

1968

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