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- Creator
- League of American Writers
- Call number
- MssCol 1710
- Physical description
- .2 linear feet (1 v.)
- Preferred Citation
- League of American Writers records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Collection consists of letters, telegrams, and other papers from 418 American authors expressing their views on Franco and fascism in Spain, in response to a circular letter sent out in 1938 by Donald Ogden Stewart, president of the League. Extracts from replies were published by the League in Writers Take Sides.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Wells, Gabriel, 1939Bibliography
Published as Writers Take Sides. New York, 1938
Key terms
Names
Subjects
Places
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Foreign public opinion
- Spain -- Politics and government -- 1931-1939
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Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328