Series VIII. Financial Files, 1933-1963

Includes budget and detailed expenses associated with HRL's household, personal, non-domestic and other expenses for Connecticut, New York, and his Mepkin plantation.

Two copies of the report from Ernst & Ernst.

Includes a statement describing items bought at Holmes (Jewelers) Limited.

Includes Theatre for Freedom Inc. membership card, and a carbon copy of the report "The Condition of Farm Workers in 1949." Correspondents include Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt and Motion Picture Association President Eric Johnston.

Includes royalty statements for book and play sales of "Kiss the Boys Goodbye," "The Women," and "Margin for Error."

Includes a description and price of jewelry and of other valuables.

Includes materials dealing with investments and household budgets.

Includes a memorandum dealing with how an author may dispose of a book or article so that the proceeds will be paid to a charity without any income tax liability.

Contains a letter from Henry Regnery regarding advance royalties on The Twilight of God.

Includes an honorary membership card in The World Children's Foundation, Inc.

Includes a detailed list of insured jewelry belonging to HRL and CBL and an insurance valuation list.

Includes personnel memoranda and employee time cards.

Includes a letter from Geoffrey T. Hellman.

Includes the pamphlet "Tax Problems of the Writer."

Contains correspondence and memoranda related to the mortgage, insurance and other managerial matters related to the house owned by CBL at 398 Beacon Street in Boston, MA.

Includes a description and sketches of the rooms in the house.

Includes a stock certificate.

Includes a checkbook.

Includes a signed original? letter from Helen Keller.

Contains correspondence and materials related to the daughter of CBL from her first marriage.

Includes inventories of liquor, silver and furniture.

Includes an informational list of books and files kept by CBL, as well as their location.

Includes the first issue of the first stamp issued by the Charles de Gaulle Government after the liberation of France with autographs by the artist, designer and General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. There are also souvenir first flight stamps with envelopes to Wheeling, West Virginia, Egypt and France, Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver Foundation stamps, and an "ABLE Day" letter sent the day on which the atomic bomb was dropped at Bikini Atoll.

Contains a one sentence note "Mrs. Luce has a perfectly magnificent idea for a play." from Paul Streger.

Includes a photograph of the Blessed Imelda Convent in Puerto Rico and signed letters from Betsey Cushing Whitney and Francis Henry Taylor.

Includes a photograph of a leper from the St. Francis' Leper Village in Uganda and a Catholic Actors Guild of America, Inc. membership card.

Includes signed air travel cards.

Includes a "Memorandum Regarding Certain Colorado Gold Mining Properties" and a letter signed by CBL on official congressional letterhead.

Contains correspondence regarding royalties.

Includes a note with CBL's shoe, waist, and hip measurements. In addition there are "Spiritual Bouquet" cards for CBL's daughter Anne Claire Brokaw (one with a metallic cross on the front), an editorial "On Drafting Mrs. Luce," a hand-drawn thank you letter from CBL's staff, a radiogram from HRL sent from Nuremberg, CBL's schedules, and war ration books.

Includes CBL's original Social Security card.

Includes a signed letter from Paul Streger regarding forwarding a check to George Bernard Shaw for the play "Candida."

Includes a certificate for "The Campaign Against Tuberculosis" from the Greenwich Tuberculosis Association, Inc., and an "Honorary Citizen of Boys Town, Neb" card.

Includes membership cards for the Salvation Army Association of New York, The Community War Fund of Washington, and The American National Red Cross.

Includes membership cards for the Community War Fund, Catholic Actors Guild of America, Inc., Museum of the City of New York, The American National Red Cross, NAACP, and Chamber of Commerce of Greenwich, CT. Also includes the "Patron of the Guild of the Infant Saviour" card and signed original? letters from Walter Hoving, Gene Buck, and [Emily?] W. Roosevelt.

Includes a checkbook, checkstubs and cancelled checks.

Contains correspondence dealing with proceeds and agreement for the play "The Happy Marriage."

Revenue for the sale of "The Day of the Saxon" and "Valor of Ignorance."

Includes signed letters from Felix Ferry and Paul Streger. Also includes CBL's unsigned agency production contract.

Includes a list of jewelry bequests made by CBL.

Includes a carbon copy of CBL's letter protesting a joint income tax return law and signed responses from Senators John A. Danaher and Francis Maloney.

Includes HRL's war ration book, voucher for travel in Britain, Western Union Government Rate Identification Card, messages forwarded from HRL, and a telegram regarding voting on atomic bomb legislation. Also includes handwritten and typed draft of a statement on running for Vice President of the United States.

Includes stock certificates for Mercury Theatre Inc., a program from the play "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar," a theatre membership card, and correspondence from John Houseman and Archibald Macleish.

Includes an application form for a Social Security number.

Includes a contract for the purchase of property in Washington D.C.

Contains correspondence from Herman Bernstein, Russel Crouse, and Howard Lindsay regarding CBL's share of profits with attached statements of receipts and weekly reports of income, expense and other statements from the play.

Includes an agreement for the play signed by Howard Lindsay and CBL, and carbon copies of humorous letters sent to Lindsay and Crouse by CBL.

Pages include debit and credit entries for the Hanover Bank account, business in connection with plays, and Mepkin Plantation.

Includes a fabric sample.

Includes brief telegrams of a personal nature filed under "Western Union."

Includes fabric samples and two dog licenses.

Includes correspondence from Fernanda Gattinoni.