Friar was named the first director of the YMHA Poetry Center in 1944, a post he held until 1948. Official correspondence with the educational director of the YMHA, William Kolodney, and the administrative staff of the YMHA is arranged by years. For correspondence relating to the readings, see also the following author folders: Adams, Leonie; Auden, W. H.; Bogan, Louise; Boyle, Kay; Brown, Harry; Eberhart, Richard; Jarrell, Randall; MacLeish, Archibald; Moore, Marianne; Mistral, Gabriela; Parker, Dorothy; Nin, Anaïs; Ransom, John Crowe; Shapiro, Karl; Schwartz, Delmore; Tate, Allen; Thompson, Dunstan; Troy, William; Van Doren, Mark; Warren, Robert Penn; Williams, Tennessee; Williams, William Carlos; Young, Marguerite.

Two folders of routine correspondence with well-known literary figures, including Edward Albee, Maxwell Aley, Woody Allen, Sherwood Anderson, Sholem Asch, Louis Auchincloss, W. H. Auden, Paul Auster, Saul Bellow, Richard Bennett, Naomi Bliven, Vance Bourjaily, Joy Chute, Joan Crowell, Malcolm Cowley, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Jimmy Carter, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Goldsmith, Nadine Gordimer, Lillian Hellman, John Hersey, Chang Hon-Hai, Langston Hughes, Clifford Irving, John Irving, Edward Kennedy, Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mann, Somerset Maugham, Carson McCullers, Arthur Miller, Alva Myrdal, Gunnar Myrdal, Anaïs Nin, Grace Paley, Octavio Paz, Katherine Anne Porter, James Purdy, Mario Puzo, Ann Reiss, Elmer Rice, Muriel Rukeyser, Grace Schulman, Harrison Salisbury, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Wallace Stegner, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson, William Styron, James Thurber, Barbara Tuchman, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Aileen Ward, Robert Penn Warren, Alec Waugh, Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Patrick White, Thornton Wilder, Richard Wright, and Arnold Zweig.

Tristan E. Beplat (1912-1997) was a New York banking executive with expertise in international banking. He had a significant role in the economic reconstruction of postwar Japan through his work in the Finance Division of the Economic and Scientific Section, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Beplat's papers document his service in Japan and include memoranda, papers, and reports on the banks and economy of Japan from 1945 to 1948.

(Includes correspondence and reports to Imam Yahia and Charles R. Crane)

(Includes clippings about Prince Saif Al-Islam Abdullah of Yemen's trip to US and article about the Twitchells)

Includes autograph manuscripts and typescripts with handwritten annotations and some printed material. There is also correspondence with Kimon Friar and Emmanouēl Kasdaglēs.

This subseries consists mainly of autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Dekavallēs's works published in books, as well as miscellaneous verse, translations of English and American poetry, book reviews, articles, essays, talks, notes, an interview, and talk-radio shows.

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consists of scrapbooks of publicity photographs of American motion-picture actors and actresses, mainly of the 1930s and 1940s, collected by Mrs. A. M. Yeandle.