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Margaret Ayer Barnes Papers

Part II: Box and Folder List - Correspondence

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Correspondence is organized into Outgoing Correspondence and Incoming Correspondence. The majority of letters are between Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon concerning their co-written work. Often the letters are in reference to an attached draft of work to which Sheldon has added his thoughts and comments. Barnes, in her letters to Sheldon, includes her own thoughts about the work and responses to his suggestions. In both cases there is some mention of personal matters, family trips, upcoming holidays, etc. Letters sent after 1933 deal with their joint lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, as does the incoming correspondence from Barnes' lawyers Dennis O'Brien and Albert Driscoll. Letters from Ferris Greenslet, a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishers, concerns Barnes' published and in-process works. When Barnes' family donated her papers to Bryn Mawr College, her son, Benjamin Ayer Barnes, summarized the groupings of correspondence in introductory notes, which can be found in folders numbered 14 and 31, and include helpful background information.

Outgoing Correspondence:

Incoming Correspondence:

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