Joel E. Spingarn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00578
Includes letters to Spingarn, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from Lowell Thomas, Sumner Welles, Edward Steichen, Charles A. Beard, Henry F. Du Pont, H. L. Mencken, and Owen Roberts concerning horticultural matters. Also includes correspondence, 1938, of Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr., Walter White, and Springarn concerning remarks made by William E. Borah concerning lynching.
Much of the correspondence deals with gardening. He sends clematis seeds to friends.
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English
Gift, 1964
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