Series I: General Files, 1937-1999.
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes typed transcripts of 23 letters and postcards written by Klonsky from Spain during the Spanish Civil War; they are addressed to various members of his family, including his older brother, Mac. Also included are World War II letters; clippings; a flyer for a James Connolly Commemoration at Jarama, 1937 (photocopy); a text of a speech by Klonsky in Leningrad, 1970s; an article about Klonsky by Floyce Alexander; documents relating to Klonsky's work in the Communist Party, incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence, including a letter from Ray Bradbury, 1966, one from William O. Douglas, 1963, and a draft of long letters from Klonsky to Henry Winston and Bettina Aptheker; testimony related to HUAC hearings; and Klonsky's speech at his subsequent trial under the Smith Act.
Agent's Report, to Commissioner Reimer re: "Welcome Home" Meeting Featuring RK and David McKelvy White, [Feb 1938?]
Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Alexander, Floyce, "'Soul without Frontiers': A Veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Offers President Reagan a History Lesson" (typescript, article about RK), [1980s]
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Note, to Chairman, UCLA English Department (re: RK a Communist), 1958
Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Aptheker, Bettina, from RK (carbon, p. 1 missing), [Aug 14, 1975]
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bradbury, Ray, to RK, [ca. 1966]
Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clipping on Sentencing of Nine Local Communists, including RK (Philadelphia Evening Bulletin), 1955
Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Commemoration Program for the Easter Rising of 1916 in Spain (copy, with mention of E. Flaherty, P. O'Connor, M. Hourihan, Gilmore, RK, and others), 1937, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Diskin], Lou, from RK (carbon), Aug 13, 1975, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Creator
Klonsky, Robert
Subjects
Organizations
People
Douglas, William O., to RK, 1963, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fishman, Moe, to RK, 1985, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hadwin, Tom (British IB volunteer), to RK, Dec 14, 1953, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hall, Charles (Chicago Friends of the Lincoln Brigade), to RK, 1999, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HUAC: Subpoena, RK to Appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Los Angeles, 1959, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Jungle Journal Supplement," Poetry (typescript, 3 pp, unsigned), Undated
Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lenin Memorial Mass Meeting, Philadelphia (flyer, featuring H. Winston, J. Stachel, P. Bart), [1936?]
Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lowenfels, Walter: Poem, on a Spanish Civil War Volunteer, Mar 12, 1955, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, 1971, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pre-Sentencing Speech, RK, Sep 1954, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sartre, Jean-Paul, to RK, 1965, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spanish Civil War Letters: RK to His Family, Feb-Mar 1937, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spanish Civil War Letters: RK to His Family, Apr 1937, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spanish Civil War Letters: RK to His Family, May-Jun 1937, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Statement: RK to Leningrad Peace Conference, [1977?]
Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tenants Rights Flyer, Communist Party of Eastern Pennsylvania, 1947, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, from RK (on Angela Davis, etc.), 1972, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Winston, Henry, from RK (lengthy draft commentary on problems of the California Communist Party, "the Healeys," etc.), Undated
Box: 1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
World War II Letter: RK to Mac Klonsky, Jan 8, 1946, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
World War II Letter: RK to "Mom and Pop" (on Passover), Mar 26, 1945, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
World War II Memorabilia: Pay Book, Discharge Card, and Photograph (RK?), 1945-1946, undated
Box: 1, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
