This collection contains a manuscript poem by Dos Passos
"Beer is Free to Soldiers," 1919 February 24. There are also
letters to Dawn Powell, 1937-1965; copies of postcards to Mr.
and Mrs. Terry Farnsworth and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor; some Dos
Passos family letters; and some miscellaneous postcards
originally inserted in
Memoires de Philippe de
Commynes.
The collection also contains a modern copy of an 1812
baptismal certificate in Portuguese; World War I aerial
photographs; a brochure for the Browne Art Class Season of
1940; a marriage certificate for John Dos Passos and Katherine
Smith, 1929; "The Marriage Service" for John Dos Passos and
Elizabeth Holdridge, 1949; clippings; and printed material
regarding Dos Passos including programs for productions of
U.S.A. reviews of
U.S.A.
Finally the collection contains a copy of
Days Near Rome by Augustus J. C.
Hare with pressed plants between its pages.