Robert W. Williams to Zecharia Chafee Jr., 1949 July 1

Item — Box: BW-20

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection consists of four letters, 3 carbon copies and 1 hand-written. Two of the carbon copies came from letters written by Robert W. Williams to Zecharia Chafee, Jr. The other carbon copy is Frank Ober's letter to Harvard President James Conant, with a hand-written draft of William's reply to Chafee on the backs of each page. The third letter is Chafee's hand-written letter to Williams. The letters are stapled together in one bunch. The inclusion of Ober's letter adds context for the letters exchanged between Chafee and Williams and helps underscore the intense fear of communism and the suspicion of academia's liberal views that was present in 1949.

Dates

Creation: 1949 July 1

Creator

From the Collection: Chafee, Zechariah, Jr., 1885-1957 (Person)
From the Collection: Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 (Person)
From the Collection: Ober, Frank Benedict, 1889- (Person)
From the Collection: Williams, Robert W. (Robert Wood), 1890- (Person)

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