Correspondence, 1918 - 1992

Contains correspondence with writers and friends including Robert Benchley, Thomas Mann, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Katherine Hepburn, Bennett Cerf, Norman Corwin, Homer Croy, Hume Cronyn, Ross Evans, Marion Fabry, Ira Gershwin, Laura Hobson, Irving Lazar, Howard Lindsay, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Nathan, Dorothy Parker, Maurice Rapf and Dorothea and Roger Straus. Correspondence with his literary agents at Brandt & Brandt and Farrar & Rinehart, as well as family correspondence with his brother, Frederic, and his wife, Rhoda, are also included.