Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16450, Ray Becker imprisonment related letters, Albert and Shirely Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Provenance

Accession 2019-0157, Purchased 18 February 2019; President's Fund (Clifton Waller Barrett), 2018/2019.

Scope and Contents Note

The Ray Becker imprisonment related letters collection 1935; 0.03 cobic feet) consists of two autograph letters signed by John Dos Passos June 1 and 4, 1935, to Kate Crane-Gartz, accompanied by a four-page autograph letter to Dos Passos from Ray Becker dated January 22, 1935. Dos Passos writes to the Pasadena heiress and supporter of workers' causes, Kate Crane-Gantz, about the case of Ray Becker, the last of the I.W.W. "Wobblies," to be in prison in the aftermath of the 1919 Armistice Day massacre at Centralia, Washington.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• letters (correspondence)