Scope and Content Note
The records of the Writers' War Board span the years 1941-1945 and consist chiefly of correspondence with writers and government agencies concerning dissemination of information and propaganda during World War II. Included are extracts of minutes of board meetings, correspondence, writings, subject files, scrapbooks, photographs, posters, and other records. Among the writers and individuals represented are Clifton Fadiman, Alan Green, Christopher LaFarge, Margaret Leech, and Rex Stout.
The collection is organized largely as received into twelve series: Minutes , Numerical File , Correspondence I , Correspondence II , Correspondence III , Transatlantic File , Subject File , Requests for Speakers , Miscellany , Manuscripts , Scrapbooks , and Oversize . Much of the material is not arranged. The correspondence series overlap chronologically, and Correspondence II includes a subset pertaining exclusively to Clifton Fadiman. An Appendix to this finding aid contains a tentative listing of subjects represented by first digits in the Numerical File .