Exhibition checklist of paintings and drawings. Artists include: Rosario Aurucci, Louis Bouche, Richard Coolidge, Stuart Davis, John Dos Passos, Gerrit Hondius, Adelaide Lawson, Henry Mattson, Anne Rector, Katherine Schmidt, Dorothea Schwarcz,...
Postal data: posted, postmarked (MECHANICSVILLE, N.Y. OCT 8 2-30P 1912), stamp; Postcard type: divided back [dotted line], Logo (SOUVENIR POST CARD) in stylized lettering; Written message [written sideways on left side of card] (am sending [name...
Commendation card awarded posthumously to James Lardner. David Gordon (Lardner24) had a card made for Lardner before the International Brigade left Spain. Gordon was detained at a French concentration camp in February 1939 and in 1948,...
Gordon writes to Ring in order to pass along Jim's posthumous commendation for fighting fascism in Spain. Gordon apologizes for the long wait. He writes that when he was detained and searched at the French concentration camp of St. Cyprien in...
Two-page list of names of fugitive slaves aided by the Vigilance Committee [probably of Boston, Massachusetts] since the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850 until 1854.
Travel; Homesickness; Singing; Boxing; Military discharges;
Harry describes his trip to Madrid and how the city has made him homesick for New York. He writes that their friend Bernie expects to be sent home, most likely for psychiatric reasons. Harry says that his parents are reunited and imagines it is...
Newspaper story about Jim Lardner's being wounded in action during the Ebro Offensive, July 21, 1938. Broun wonders what Ring Lardner, Sr., would have thought about his son fighting for the Loyalists.
Jim discusses reading material with his brother. Gives Ring an update on the current politics of Spain. Discusses the Communists and the Radical Socialists, who are anti-fascist but seem not to be pro-Popular Front. He discusses the government of...
Convalescent hospitals; Military hospitals; Reading;
Caption on postcard: Departamento de hidroterapia. James writes to his brother about being injured by shrapnel and is currently reading Marxist literature in the hospital.
Military training; Political issues; Politics & government;
Jim tells his brother that in the two months he has been in the Lincoln Battalion, he has not seen a single day of fighting. Nonetheless, he spends his time practicing infantry techniques. Jim says that he can't give Ring the inside scoop on the...
Typewriters; Military occupations; Fascists; Weddings; Employment; Newspaper industry; Travel; Homesickness;
Jim writes to his brother about working with a difficult writer, Marcel Rivet, who has taken Jim's typewriter. He has enclosed a story by Rivet that Jim helped edit in English. He is hoping that if Ring can sell the story, it might encouraged...
