CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANY, 1917-1986

Primarily personal correspondence received by Frances Grant, as well as miscellaneous personal documents, such as address books, citations, biographical sketches, identification cards, personal financial records, lists, invitations, notes, ribbons, and a phonograph disc (33 rpm), presented to Grant by Rómulo Betancourt. Most of the correspondence is filed by names of individuals, but there are also some filed by place, or organization names including Rutgers University, the Nemi Foundation, Freedom House, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Religious of the Cenacle in Ronkonkoma, New York, a Catholic Order Retreat, which Grant visited.

Among the correspondents are members of Frances Grant's family, including her maternal aunt Mildred Spiro, her brothers David and Joseph, her sister and brother-in-law, Hylda and Max Zimmerman, and her nieces and nephews. Important correspondents include Grant's friend, the Peruvian painter Julia Codesido, the Italian socialist Angelica Balabanoff, Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, Grant's neighbor in Abiquiu, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Dr. George Pack, who operated on Eva Perón.

Also of interest are several files of random notes consisting of Grant's musings on spirituality and the self.

Series includes several oversize items stored separately--a four phonograph disc set of speeches by Rómulo Betancourt, and numerous citations presented to Grant, most notably, the Orden de la Liberación de España (1955).

[See also: newspaper box 85]