Manuscripts
Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 30 items. Includes typed and handwritten correspondence, some business-related, some personal. Some letters and telegrams related to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1952. Letters from Bassett to the editors of the S.F. Chronicle and Sacramento Bee. Many congratulatory letters from around the country regarding Bassett's writing for the Times. Estes Kefauver letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - January - August
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Approx. 75 items. The folder contains a wide array of personal and business correspondence. In addition, there are programs, business cards, news clippings, a 1968 membership list for the International Press Institute, etc. There are two smaller folders inside. They contains material related to Bassett's 1968 Far East trip and a planned trip to Israel which was canceled. Notable names and items include: William F. Buckley, Jr. ; (CA Lieut. Gov.) Robert Finch ; "International Press Institute Membership List, " 7/1/1968 ; Bassett's International vaccination booklet ; materials related to Bassett trip to Far East, contains letters, maps and travel guides related to the Pacific, Australia, the Philippines, etc. ; materials related to canceled trip to Israel - containing informational material. Split into two folders.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - August - December
Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items. The folder contains a wide array of personal and business correspondence. In addition, there are programs, business cards, news clippings, a 1968 membership list for the International Press Institute, etc. There are two smaller folders inside. They contains material related to Bassett's 1968 Far East trip and a planned trip to Israel which was canceled. Notable names and items include: William F. Buckley, Jr. ; (CA Lieut. Gov.) Robert Finch ; "International Press Institute Membership List, " 7/1/1968 ; Bassett's International vaccination booklet ; materials related to Bassett trip to Far East, contains letters, maps and travel guides related to the Pacific, Australia, the Philippines, etc. ; materials related to canceled trip to Israel - containing informational material. Split into two folders.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 25 items. Folder contains telegrams, correspondence [including letters to/from Walter Annenberg, Otis Chandler, Melvin Belli, Alan Cranston, Thomas E. Dewey, J. Edgar Hoover, H.R. Haldeman, Hubert Humphrey, Estes Kefauver, [actor] George Kennedy, Vance Packard, William P. Rogers, Pierre Salinger, Harold Stassen, and Jesse Unruh. The subject matter or the letters varies, several are congratulatory notes on the release of a film based on Bassett's novel, In Harm's Way in 1965.
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Presses - R. Hoe & Co. contract and correspondence
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Approx. 80 items: letters, telegrams, reports, forms and other material related to construction of 4th Times building in 1936 - 1938.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - July - December
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Approx. 55 items. Folder includes congratulatory letters upon the occasion of Bassett's January 1970 promotion to Associate Editor of the Times, several transcripts of articles by a writer named Jack Mahon, various other professional and personal correspondence. Split into two folders.
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