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Autograph and typed letters from various literary people to Lawlor. This correspondence is relevant to his book on Katherine Mansfield, THE MYSTERY OF MAATA, 1946, some during his work on the presumably unpublished manuscript of hers"Maata" some later and some more personal. There are letters from Martin Armstrong, Sylvia Berkman, Princess Marthe Bibesco, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivor Brown, Willa Cather, Isabel C. Clarke, Sir Newman Flower, Edward Morgan Forster, Anne Friis, Robert John Gibbings, Oliver St. J. Gogarty, Miron Grindea, D.B.W. Lewis, Sylvia D. Lynd, Michael McLaverty, Ethel Mannin, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Morgan, J. Middleton Murry, David Nicholson, Frank Norris, George Oliver, Herbert Read, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Sencourt, Edward A. Shanks, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Lionel Stevenson, L.A.G. Strong, Julian G. Symons, Henry Major Tomlinson, Nelia Gardner White.

The editorial and production files of Pantheon Books from 1944 through 1968. The correspondence from authors, agents, and publishers is written to Kurt and Helen Wolff, Jacques Schiffrin, André Schiffrin, and the editors of the firm. The files document the publication of works by A. Alvarez, Georges Bernanos, Hermann Broch, Jacob Burckhardt, Albert Camus, William Demby, Eugene Ionesco, Karl Jaspers, Winifred Bryher, Jacques Maritain, Isamu Noguchi, José Ortega y Gasset, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sir Herbert Read, Ben Shahn, and others.