Day, Dorothy, undated

There are 10 boxes of correspondence files identified by individual, organization, and subject. One sequence (see Box #4, #5, and #6), entitled "General Correspondence" includes 30 files from the period 1938 to 1949; 6 files from 1940; and 9 files from 1952 to 1957. These are organized alphabetically within each chronological period. Notable correspondents are Henry F. Du Pont, Rene d'Harnoncourt (UNESCO), Blanche Hooker, Frank Kingdon-Ward, Robert Moses, Kenneth Raper, Jonas Salk, and R.Gordon Wasson. Subjects include antibiotics, cultures, General Electric "Science Forum" radio broadcasts (1940), Kingdon-Ward's expeditions to Nyasaland (1947) and India/Burma (1948-49), research for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and a worldwide search for cortisone-bearing plants in the genus Strophantus