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Hannah Arendt., 03/27/1964-03/31/1964

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 59041

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

From the Collection:

The John L. Brown papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques Maritain, Carson McCullers, Darius Milhaud, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Edmee Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stegner, Gerald Sykes, Allen Tate, Virgil Thompson, Richard Wright, and 'Zev' (Daniel A. Harris).

Dates

  • 03/27/1964-03/31/1964

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Extent

From the Collection: 1.3 Linear Feet (3 Hollinger Document Cases)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Container Summary

TLS (3/27/1964, 1 page) from writer Hannah Arendt (1906-75) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon reply from Brown (3/31/1964). References to an invitation to Arendt to lecture at the Colegio de Mexico.

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

ARENDT, HANNAH - CORRES. TO/FROM BROWN, JOHN L. 1964: Typed Letter Signed

BROWN, JOHN L. - CORRES. TO/FROM ARENDT, HANNAH 1964: Typed Letter Signed

Repository Details

Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository

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