Scope and content Programs for the Festival of Contemporary Arts at Cornell University (1945-1963); broadsides concerning lectures, exhibitions, films, readings, and musical, dance, and dramatic productions (1953-1956); reports of Professor Walter H. Stainton, Festival Committee chairman (1955-1957) and summary statistics on finances and attendance; Professor M. Slade Kendrick's biographical sketch (4 pp. typescript carbon) of the poet John G. Neihardt, who appeared at the twelfth festival (1958); tape...

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Letters to Jason and Clara Seley include letters, postcards, envelopes, annotated gallery opening, and photograph. Three of the letters and envelopes have sketches of Peirce. The correspondence was largely occasioned by Peirce mailing his studio rental to Seley. He discusses family matters and sometimes asks Seley to take care of business affairs.