Reinhold Niebuhr Timeline: Schlesinger dedicates book to Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr Timeline: Schlesinger dedicates book to Niebuhr

Correspondence with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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Click to enlarge image of May 9, 1956 letter from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. to Reinhold Niebuhr

Widener 95
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr
UNiversity 4-9710

May 9, 1956

Dear Reinhold:

As you know, I have been working for some time on a multi-volume history to be entitled The Age of Roosevelt. The first volume is due to come out in the fall. If you do not mind, I would like to dedicate this volume to you. The reasons for this are self- evident; and I can only add that friend- ship with you and Ursula has meant more for Marian and me that I can easily say, or than this inadequate gesture can express.

Yours ever,
Arthur

Mr. Reinhold Niebuhr
606 West 122nd Street
New York City, N.Y.

Reinhold Niebuhr Papers: Library of Congress, Manuscript Reading Room

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