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(KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR.) Archive from the office of Joan Daves, King's literary agent. Hundreds of letters received, copies of outgoing letters, and related documents (0.3 linear feet); generally minor wear. Vp, 1962-86
Joan Daves (1919-1997) was a German-born Holocaust refugee who established a literary agency in New York in the early 1950s. Offered here are part of her correspondence files relating to her most noteworthy client, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This correspondence discusses the licensing and copyright of King's writings and recordings for foreign markets, set to music, in motion pictures and plays, or on greeting cards. A slim file of 7 letters dates from before King's death: letters to and from Daves's business partner Marie Rodell regarding a motion picture deal for Strive Toward Freedom in 1962. Most notable is a carbon of a 7 August 1962 letter from Rodell to Coretta Scott King while Dr. King worked on a desegregation project in Georgia: "Along with all the other millions of his admirers we have been following Martin's courageous fight in Georgia . . . our thoughts are with him and you." Most of the correspondence is dated 1969-1986. Included are many carbons of letters to Coretta Scott King, though none of Mrs. King's responses are present. A detailed inventory of the contents is available upon request. with--a small random bonus: a circular letter advertisement from the International Railway Correspondence Institute, advertising their record in securing positions as Pullman Porters. Indianapolis, IN, circa 1920.
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