Association Letters
- July 22, [1921] [Postcard] from Grace Hegger Lewis in Cornwall to
Dr. and Mrs. Whedon, West Chester, Penn.
- "A quiet July in beautiful Cornwall. And then an Elizabethan
house in Kent. We hope all goes well with you / The Sinclair Lewises"
- Nov. 8, 1930 from H.L. Mencken in Baltimore to [unidentified]
- Recipient’s name blacked out. Mencken writes: "The award
of the Nobel Prize to Sinclair Lewis gave me immense pleasure. I can
imagine no man whose recognition would be more offensive to the general
run of American literary patriots. It was a blow exactly in the eye
..."
- Jan. 1, 1931 from Dorothy Thompson to Art Young
- She is enclosing a check; "pick out the silver loving cup for
yourself."
- Jan. 2, 1935 from Dorothy Thompson to Margaret Banning, Duluth
- "It does not happen very often in my life that I meet...a fellow
spirit and feel that I have really made a new friend..."
- Nov. 3, 1937 from Dorothy Thompson to Robert Gessner, New York University
- She will recommend him for a Guggenheim Fellowship. "My little
boy wrote you a letter in his own hand thanking you for the soldiers
which delighted his heart, but I didn’t know where to reach you
..."
- April 19, 1938 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- Thompson comments on her hate mail, and repeats her son’s remark
on Mussolini: "Michael is seven and a half. I was reading the
headlines aloud broodingly, and said ‘Well, I see that Mussolini
has nine million men mobilized and ready to fight!’ To which
Michael repied: ‘I know that kind of talk. I say I say I have
got a hundred boys in my gang, but I have only got two friends.’"
- Jan. 6, 1939 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- "I have known Cockburn for years. He is a brilliant journalist
but not at all reliable."
- Jan. 31, 1940 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- Thompson discusses English politics, the occupation of Poland, and
Swedish aid to Finland.
- Oct. 20, 1940 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- Thompson comments on Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker: "It
is nice to know that the Talk of the Town is not the opinion either
of the town or of the fellows who write it, but only of the publishers
..."
- Nov. 19, [1940?] from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- She is outraged that Winchell reported on her supposed ambition to
be ambassador to Germany after the war: "Don’t you give
a damn whether you lie or not?"
- Dec. 3, [1940?] from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- Thompson comments on being misquoted after telling a story about
Churchill at a party: "If one can’t go to parties, furthermore,
without having what one says ... rushed into print ... how can anyone
lead a half-way normal life."
- [1942-1943]
- Collection of 4 typed letters to Arthur Goldsmith, concerning her
work on behalf of the Volunteer Land Corps, a wartime organization
for young people, in which she hoped he would be interested.
- April 30, 1944 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- She explains her position on the case of Paul Scheffer.
- March 12, 1946 from Hilda Auersperg, secretary to Dorothy Thompson,
to Walter Winchell
- Thompson appreciates his "friendly comment."
- Nov. 3, 1946 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- Thompson comments on her relations with Paul Scheffer, and would
like to tell him the story "eye to eye."
- March 27, 1947 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- "Berlin was never a Nazi town."
- March 31, 1947 Memorandum to Winchell from his staff
- Winchell is supplied with statistics with which to reply to Thompson’s
previous letter.
- April 24, 1937 [i.e. 1947] from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- Thompson disagrees with his statistics, and re-states her position.
- Dec. [194-?] from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- She encloses an excerpt from the "Schwarze Korps" official
newspaper on German-Americans; "the racial structure of America
is refuse."
- July 7, 1948 from Dorothy Thompson to Gertrude
- On her room accommodations for the Democratic National Convention; "from
this distance everything seems like an unholy mess."
- Dec. 26, 1952 from Dorothy Thompson to Walter Winchell
- Thompson comments on the Rosenberg case, and encloses a copy of her
column on the Rosenbergs.