In 1928 Frank Kagan and Fred Creque met at The Daily Worker, the newspaper published by the American Communist Party. Creque worked as a recruiter and organizer. During the Great Depression there was no longer work as a ship steamfitter because the New York City ports had closed down, so in 1932 Creque moved with his family to California. The letters are between Kagan who was in New York City and Creque who was in Oakland, CA. By 1935 Kagan and Creque had left the communist party. Kagan was an artist for many servicemen’s newspapers during the war and many of his sketches are political cartoons.