| Description | Extensive postwar correspondence relating to The New Republic, between Bliven and Leonard Elmhirst. Mentions current events; family news; Communist accusations and Joseph McCarthy; Israel Sieff; Albert Mayer; Gandhi; publishing news; Robert Morss Lovett. Records also include monthly ' items of gossip' from Bruce Bliven to the Elmhirsts. Letters written after 1953 are from Saratoga and Stanford, California. Includes a draft chapter of Bliven's history of The New Republic, titled 'The First Forty Years' expanded later in his autobiography, 'Five Million Words Later'. Final letters concern Bliven's family, books, and the biographer Karolyn Gould, among many other topics. |