Correspondents include Upton Sinclair, mistaking Murdock for his brother Brock; the New Yorker's Harold Ross, K. S. White, and William Maxwell; William Allen White; New York Times staffers Brooks Atkinson, Harrison Salisbury, and James Reston; Richard Rodgers; Josephine Hull; and Dawn Powell. Includes both photocopies and originals; mostly incoming correspondence but some copies of outgoing. Topics include Murdock's writing, deaths of Brock and Frannie, and other matters.