A Collection in the
Manuscripts and Rare Books Department
Collection Number Mss. Sm. Coll.
Spingarn
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and
Mary
Special Collections Earl Gregg Swem Library College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794 USA Phone: (757) 221-3090 Fax: (757) 221-5440 Email: spcoll@wm.edu URL: http://swem.wm.edu/scrc/
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Preferred Citation
Joel E. Spingarn Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books
Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Joel E. Spingarn was born May 17, 1875 in New York City. He
received a doctorate from Columbia University. He was a
professor at Columbia but left academic life in 1911. He was a
poet, editor and critic as well as a social reformer. He was
an early member of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and he established the Spingarn
Medal. He served as NAACP president in the 1930's. He died
July 26, 1939.
Includes letters to Spingarn, president of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People from Lowell
Thomas, Sumner Welles, Edward Steichen, Charles A. Beard,
Henry F. Du Pont, H. L. Menchen and Owen Roberts concerning
horticultural matters. Also includes correspondence, 1938, of
Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr., Walter White, and Springarn
concerning remarks made by William E. Borah concerning
lynching.
The main collections of Joel E. Spingarn papers are in the
New York Public Library, Howard University, and in the James
Weldon Johnson Collection at Yale University.There are also
materials at the Library of Congress.
Hendrik Willem van Loon in New York City and
Guinea to Spingarn,
January-March
1934.
2 items.
Folder 2
May Eastman at Croton-on-Hudson, New York to
Spingarn,
19 January 1934.
TLS.
Folder 3
Lowell Thomas, New York City, to Spingarn,
7 May 1935.
TLS.
Folder 4
Sumner Welles in Washington, D.C., to J.E.
Spingarn in Amenia, Duchess County, New York,
9 April 1936.
Folder 5
Edward Steichen of the Amer. Delphinium Soc.
in New York City, to J.E. Spingarn, Amenia, New York,
26 May 1936.
Folder 6
M. A. LeHand, private Secretary to the
President, the White House, Washington, D.C. to J.E.
Spingarn, Pres. of the Natl. Assn. for Advancem. of Col.
People in New York City,
4 Nov[ember]1937.
TLS.
Folder 7
Charles Beard to Spingarn,
3 Nov. [?]
ALS.
Folder 8
Phylis Moore, Willbrook House, Rathfarnham
County, Dublin [Ireland] to [J.E.] Springarn
13 Feb[ruary] 1934
ALS.
Folder 9
Lord Aberconway, Bodanant Tal-y-Cafn, N.
Wales, to J.E. S[pingarn], Troutbeck, Amenia, New York,
U.S.A.,
21 Oct. 1935.
TLS.
Folder 10
Hamilton Fish, Jr., Congress of the U. S. to
J.E.S[pingarn], New York City,
3 Mar. 1936.
4 items.
Attached are copies of letters from Fish to Walter
White, Nat[io]n[a]l Assn. for Advancem[ent] of Col[ored]
People, the reply of White and printed copy of remarks
of Fish on
"Senator Borah and the
AntiLynching Bill "
Folder 11
Owen Roberts to [J.E.Spingarn],
6 Apr[il] 1937.
Folder 12
Henry F. DuPont, Winterthur, Delaware, to
J.E.S[pingarn], Troutbeck, Amenia, New York,
9 April 1937
TLS.
Folder 13
H. L. Mencken, Baltimore, Maryland, to [J.E.]
Spingarn,
3 Nov[ember] 1937.