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Beatrice S. Russell's Autograph Collection (Digital Surrogates)

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Digital copies of the autograph collection of notable persons, consisting of letters to the editor of the Bulletin, Beatrice Sawyer Russell; sentiments on the role of the library made for the 50th anniversary of ALA; and routine letters of acceptance and regret from James Angell, Newton D. Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, William Beebe, Edward W. Bok, Louis Bromfield, James B. Cabell, Andrew Carnegie, Louise W. Carnegie, Janet A. Fairbank, Edna Ferber, John H. Finley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Harold L. Ickes, Henry Horner, Helen Keller, Herbert H. Lehman, Walter Lippmann, Hugh Lofting, Thomas Mann, Marie, Queen of Romania, Christopher Morley, William F. Poole, Azariah S. Root, Julius Rosenwald, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vincent Starrett, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Susannah Tarkington, Daniel B. Updike, and William A. White.

This collection is managed by the American Library Association Archives and does not feature precise descriptive information for each item. Discover its contents by browsing the folders and files. For more information, contact an archivist at ala-archives@library.illinois.edu.
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