Series II: Correspondence

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{"value"=>"1946-2001", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1946/2001"}
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{"value"=>"Series II: Correspondence"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series includes personal and professional correspondence between Kazin, friends, family, and associates. There is incoming correspondence from over 60 persons, including writers, critics, cultural notables, intimate friends, and family members; fan mail; and outgoing correspondence from Kazin to over 250 recipients.</p> <p>Correspondents include Kazin's wife, Judith Dunford, as well as many friends in writing, publishing, and academia, including Louis Auchincloss, Paul Bowles, Anatole Broyard, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Malcolm Cowley, Francine du Plessix Gray, Louise Erdich, Richard Ford, Robert Giroux, Shirley Hazzard, Edward Hoagland, Stanley Kunitz, Gordon Lish, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamund, James Merrill, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Arthur M. Schlesinger, William Styron, Truman Capote and John Updike.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into eight subseries: Incoming Correspondence to Kazin from Judith Dunford; Incoming Correspondence to Kazin; Incoming and Outgoing, Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown; Incoming to Kazin (Addendum); Incoming to Judth Dunford; Fan Mail; Outgoing from Kazin to Judith Dunford; and Outgoing from Kazin.</p>"}
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1946
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1946
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2001
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1946
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2001

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  1. Subseries II.A. Incoming Correspondence to Alfred Kazin from Judith Dunford [17/1]
  2. Subseries II.B. Incoming Correspondence to Alfred Kazin [65/2]
  3. Subseries II.C. Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing, Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown [14/1]
  4. Subseries II.D. Incoming Correspondence to Alfred Kazin: Addendum [21/1]
  5. Subseries II.E. Incoming Correspondence to Judith Dunford [2/2]
  6. Subseries II.F. Fan Mail [2/1]
  7. Subseries II.G. Outgoing Correspondence from Alfred Kazin to Judith Dunford [136/1]
  8. Subseries II.H. Outgoing Correspondence from Alfred Kazin [162/2]