Box 21

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Copy of a transcript of an interview of Kallen on August 31, 1964 by Konvitz and Dorothy Oko.

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1974 [1948], 1949, 1952, 1955. Correspondence between Konvitz and Cornell University Press and other publishers regarding routine publication matters concerning Horace Kallen's books, Ideals and Experience and The Liberal Spirit. Copy of the Memorandum of Agreement establishing the Board of Trustees for the Kallen Publication Revolving Fund.

Scope and Contents 1948-1961, 1963-1965. Correspondence between Konvitz and Cornell University Press regarding the Kallen Revolving Fund annual report and the sale of Horace Kallen's books, Ideals and Experience and The Liberal Spirit. Also correspondence between Professor Konvitz and Kallen regarding the fund and proposals for a Near Eastern Center at the New School for Social Research. Konvitz supports the proposal for the establishment of a Near Eastern Center at the New School that would be committed to...

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[1947-1948] 1950, 1952. Routine material and correspondence with various publishers regarding the preparation and publication of Freedom and Experience: Essays Presented to Horace M. Kallen, edited by Sidney Hook and Konvitz.

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1945-[1947], 1952. Correspondence with various contributors to Freedom and Experience and others regarding the preparation and essays for the festschrift. Also correspondence with various people regarding contributions to the Kallen chair and Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund.

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Routine correspondence with contributing authors to Freedom and Experience regarding the book's preparation. Correspondence with various people regarding contributions to Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund.

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1946-[1947]. Routine correspondence with contributing authors to Freedom and Experience regarding the book's preparation. Correspondence with various people regarding contributions to Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund. Copy of a letter from Horace Kallen to Earle F. Waldridge, Reference Assistant at New York University Square Library, in which Kallen lists his publications (May 22, 1946).

Scope and Contents 1967-[1968-1974]-1975. Correspondence with various people regarding annual solicitation among friends of Professor Horace M. Kallen for contributions to the Horace Kallen Salary Fund. Since Kallen's retirement in 1951, Konvitz annually solicited contributions from approximately 22 of Kallen's friends for funds to supplement Kallen's reduced income. Konvitz raised annually enough funds so that Kallen could continue to teach and to receive an income that was at least equal to the one he had...

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Correspondence with contributors to the Horace Kallen Salary Fund and related materials. Correspondence between Konvitz and Donald C. Ottis regarding Ottis' plan for writing an anthology of Kallen's selected writings. Doctor Konvitz suggests that Ottis limit the anthology to Kallen's thoughts on cultural pluralism because he believes that in perspective of intellectual history Kallen's contribution to this subject will be judged to have been his most important contribution (May 3, 1962).

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Attorney and Legal Counsel to Senator Hubert Humphrey. Correspondence on the discussion of Professor Konvitz being appointed to the Commission on Government Security; personal, literary, and routine correspondence