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    <title>John Haynes Holmes papers, 1899-1983 (bulk 1935-1964)</title>
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    <namePart>Holmes, John Haynes</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1879-1964</namePart>
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    <extent>54</extent>
    <extent>110</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, writings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Holmes's public career and to the libertarian movements of the 20th century.  Documents his involvement with civil liberties, civil rights, pacifism, and social service organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, Council Against Intolerance in America, Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, League for Industrial Democracy, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and War Resisters League.  Also includes material pertaining to his activities as pastor of the Church of the Messiah (later Community Church), New York, N.Y., and to his personal life.  Subjects include abortion, African Americans, birth control, civil society, contraception, economic conditions, economic policy, industrial policy, industry, labor, labor unions, peace, prejudices, race relations, racism, social conditions, social values, Society of Friends, toleration, and World War II refugee children.  The writings file includes Holmes's articles, hymns, sermons, and manuscripts of his books including My Gandhi (1953) and I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes (1959).</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Roger N. Baldwin, Henry Beckett, Arthur E. Calder, Carl Colodne, Ethelwyn Doolittle, Donald Szantho Harrington, Arthur Garfield Hays, Arthur Heller, B.W. Huebsch, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Corliss Lamont, Lillian Laub, Salmon Oliver Levinson, Minnie Loewenthal, Louis B. Mayer, George E. Moesel, Francis Neilson, Carl Nelson, Edith Lovejoy Pierce, Henriette Posner, Ralph C. Roper, Norman Thomas, Carl Hermann Voss, Blanche Watson, and Walter Francis White.</abstract>
  <abstract>Holmes's autograph collection contains copies of letters from individuals including John Dewey, Mahatma Gandhi, Herbert Hoover, Helen Keller, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jawaharlal Nehru, Eddie Rickenbacker, Bertrand Russell, and Wendell L. Willkie.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of containers 177-269 available, no. 19,060.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.</note>
  <note>Recorded sound material transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Unitarian clergyman and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013061">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013061</note>
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      <namePart>Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1981</namePart>
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      <namePart>Beckett, Henry</namePart>
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      <namePart>Calder, Arthur E</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Colodne, Carl</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dewey, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1952</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Doolittle, Ethelwyn</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gandhi, Mahatma</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Harrington, Donald Szantho</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hays, Arthur Garfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1954</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Heller, Arthur</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Keller, Helen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1968</namePart>
    </name>
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      <namePart>La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lamont, Corliss</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1995</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Laub, Lillian</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Levinson, Salmon Oliver</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1941</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1974</namePart>
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      <namePart>Loewenthal, Minnie</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1957</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moesel, George E</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Nehru, Jawaharlal</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1964</namePart>
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      <namePart>Neilson, Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Nelson, Carl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1915 or 1916-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pierce, Edith Lovejoy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Posner, Henriette</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rickenbacker, Eddie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1973</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roper, Ralph C</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Russell, Bertrand</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1970</namePart>
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      <namePart>Thomas, Norman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1968</namePart>
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      <namePart>Watson, Blanche</namePart>
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      <namePart>White, Walter Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1955</namePart>
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      <namePart>Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1944</namePart>
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      <namePart>American Civil Liberties Union.</namePart>
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