Individuals Subseries, 1939-2003 and undated
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Branch's correspondents include many eminent Twain scholars such as Fred Anderson, Minnie M. Brashear, George H. Brownell, Louis J. Budd, Cyril Clemens (who was also a second cousin of Twain's), Hennig Cohen, Everett Emerson, Paul Fatout, Alan Gribben, Hamlin Hill, Robert Hirst, and Henry Nash Smith. Other correspondents of note include literary critics Matthew J. Bruccoli, John Crowe Ransom, Arlin Turner, and René Wellek; as well as Ira Berkow (NY Times sportswriter/journalist and former student of Branch's) and W. Willard Wirtz (former U.S. Secretary of Labor under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson). Arranged alphabetically by last name of the correspondent.
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